Update-1 podcasts cover 2016 election and visual news trends

Update-1, the National Press Club’s podcast, jumps into the 2016 presidential race with a roundtable discussion hosted by SiriusXM’s White House correspondent Jared Rizzi.

His guests are Todd Gillman, Washington bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News, and Francesca Chambers, White House correspondent for the Daily Mail. They discuss the importance of the upcoming primaries and caucuses for the remaining four Republican and two Democratic candidates in the first of a series of Update-1 podcasts covering the race for the White House.

Another new episode focuses on the growth of online news, especially with multimedia content, thus breathing new life into the venerable press release. Photos, infographics and videos are increasingly key to audience engagement and retention in an era of information overload and constrained journalistic resources. Broadcast Committee member Adam Konowe discusses this and other trends in visual news with Serena Ehrlich, director of social and evolving media for BusinessWire, a distributor of press releases and related material.

Update-1 is produced by Mike Hempen with assistance from Konowe. The podcast can be heard via the NPC website (click on “multimedia,” then “podcast”) or on iTunes, Sticher and Tunein.