Lynn Walsh is an Emmy award-winning journalist who has worked in investigative, data and TV journalism at the national level as well as locally in California, Ohio, Texas and Florida. Lynn is a digital explorer working to help companies, newsrooms and organizations engage the public through ethical content, no matter the medium or purpose. She is an international speaker and trainer, working to encourage ethical content creation, access & transparency, social media engagement, digital innovation and free expression rights for all. She believes strongly in government transparency, holding the powerful accountable and spends more time than she would like fighting for access to public information.
Currently, she is the Project Manager for the Trusting News Project, where she works to help rebuild trust between journalists and the public by working with newsrooms to be more transparent about how they do their jobs.
She serves on the National Board for the Society of Professional Journalists and during her term as National President for the organization spoke out against threats to the First Amendment, while working to protect and defend journalists and journalism. She also serves the journalism organization as a member of SPJ’s FOI and Ethics committees. Lynn was also selected to represent SPJ on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee where she works to recommend changes to help improve the FOIA process.
Here are the episodes of the podcast on which Lynn has been a guest. Click the links for each to listen:
Ep. 49 - Lynn Walsh
Ep. 61 - Lynn Walsh [II]
Ep. 95 - Lynn Walsh [III]
And here's a YouTube playlist of all the episodes on which Lynn Walsh has been a guest: