Cedarville student Balen Allain and Professor Jeff Gilbert explore concise writing techniques, providing tools to gather information and write with clarity in this episode.
8 May 2025
The Writers' Block: Chapter 4, From newspapers to online
Newspapers are the foundation of journalistic writing. In this episode, hosted by Cedarville sophomore journalism student Balen Allain and journalism professor Jeff Gilbert, we discuss the history and evolution of newspapers from at least two in every city, to at most one in every city and the transition to the digital online world.
21 Apr 2025
The Writers' Block: Chapter 3, In-depth storytelling
Journalistic feature writing should be about going in depth and using narrative techniques to tell stories. In this episode, hosted by Cedarville sophomore journalism student Balen Allain and journalism professor Jeff Gilbert, we discuss what makes feature writing different from news writing.
9 Apr 2025
The Writers' Block: Chapter 2, The Truth About Newswriting
Journalistic writing is about telling the truth, or at least it should be. In this episode, hosted by Cedarville sophomore journalism student Balen Allain and journalism professor Jeff Gilbert, we discuss how other writing advocates for ideas and actions, but newswriting should be in stark contrast to those aims.
27 Mar 2025
The Writers' Block: Chapter 1, Writing is Everywhere
Whether you like writing or not you can't get away from it. This is the introduction to podcast episodes about writing hosted by Cedarville sophomore journalism student Balen Allain and journalism professor Jeff Gilbert.
24 Apr 2023
The Star Wars Showdown
If you are a Star Wars fan, then this episode is for you! Janie, Ben, Sam, and Jacob settle the debate over the best piece of Star Wars media ever made, March Madness bracket style. Which one do you think the winner will be?
18 Apr 2023
”The Last of Us” episode has arrived!
Longtime “The Last of Us” fans Ben and Sam along with recent fan Janie discuss what the hit TV series did right, what it did wrong, and how it may have broken the curse of film and TV adaptations of video games.
WARNING: SPOILERS FOR “THE LAST OF US” GAME AND TV SHOW, AND “THE LAST OF US PART 2” GAME
15 Apr 2023
Spin the Wheel: What genre could it be?
Janie and Ben, with special guest Jacob Bundy, play a fun game of sharing their favorite movies to a random genre determined by spinning the wheel.
10 Sept 2021
A&E: 10/10 Rings? – ‘Shang-Chi’ Review
Does "Shang-Chi" stand out amidst an ever-growing universe of heroes, or is it just your run-of-the-mill Marvel movie? Join hosts Ben Hiett and Sam Acosta along with special guest Josh Walden as they give their thoughts on the latest entry in the MCU.
26 Oct 2020
Village Stories: Bringing the Opera House back to life
Sarah Bean tells the story of the Cedarville Opera House and its openings and closings through the years. For the moment, performances at the iconic building in the middle of Cedarville are on hold. But the wait won't last forever.
18 May 2020
Ministry Moments: Science and Religion
Host Ben Hiett talks with Cedarville's Dr. Marc Clauson about how Christians approach science and about how they should approach science.
25 Feb 2020
Ministry Moments: Film and Storytelling
How can we appreciate film’s power to communicate truth while being wary of its potential to corrupt our vision of the “good life”? How do we discern between its biblical and unbiblical messages? To answer these and other questions, listen as host Ben Hiett talks with Professor Sean O’Connor, who teaches film and video courses at Cedarville University.
25 Jan 2020
Ministry Moments: Race relations
Does color-blindness lead to true reconciliation or merely a superficial state of peace? How ought we, as Christians, approach people from vastly different ethnic and cultural backgrounds than us to most fully embody the love of Christ toward them? Join Ben Hiett and Dayton pastor John Pope for a discussion of this topic.
13 Dec 2019
Ministry Moments: Christianity and politics
Campus news editor Breanna Beers talks with Dr. Mark Caleb Smith, a Cedarville University political science professor. They discuss the church's complex relationship with the political system, whether the church should be a politically diverse body and how we can extend political grace to our rivals.
5 Nov 2019
Ministry Moments: Sadness and depression
Campus news editor Breanna Beers discusses an issue facing many college students - sadness and depression - with Cedarville psychology professor Dr. Kristen DeWitt.
29 Apr 2019
Award-winner talks about getting the story
Cedarville senior Callahan Jones recently won a national award in the collegiate category of feature writing in Society for Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence competition. He speaks with journalism professor Jeff Gilbert about winning the award and his approach to the story. After their conversation, listen as student Seth Dittmer reads the story.
27 Feb 2019
Learning to produce radio stories
Join us for a discussion and review of radio stories Cedarville journalism students completed in Professor Jeff Gilbert's Multiplatform Journalism 2 class.
10 Nov 2017
Millennials drawn to online news subscriptions
Join us for a discussion about the growing numbers of young online news subscribers. Jeff Gilbert, journalism professor at Cedarville University and adviser for Cedars, talks with Cedars staffers Naomi Harward and Callahan Jones about their online news subscriptions and what they like about them.
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