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Life After News
Jason Ball
45 episodes
2 days ago
Send us a text Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of the year. Jason Ball sits down with longtime TV journalist and beloved morning-show personality Lisa Breckenridge to talk about what happens when the newsroom chapter ends, but the storyteller isn’t finished. Lisa opens up about her unexpected exit from Fox, the identity shift that comes with leaving television, and the advice Maria Shriver gave her in a makeup room that helped change everything. Lisa shares how the very thing ...
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Send us a text Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of the year. Jason Ball sits down with longtime TV journalist and beloved morning-show personality Lisa Breckenridge to talk about what happens when the newsroom chapter ends, but the storyteller isn’t finished. Lisa opens up about her unexpected exit from Fox, the identity shift that comes with leaving television, and the advice Maria Shriver gave her in a makeup room that helped change everything. Lisa shares how the very thing ...
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Life After News
🎙️ The Makeup Room Advice That Changed Everything: Lisa Breckenridge’s Life After News
Send us a text Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of the year. Jason Ball sits down with longtime TV journalist and beloved morning-show personality Lisa Breckenridge to talk about what happens when the newsroom chapter ends, but the storyteller isn’t finished. Lisa opens up about her unexpected exit from Fox, the identity shift that comes with leaving television, and the advice Maria Shriver gave her in a makeup room that helped change everything. Lisa shares how the very thing ...
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6 days ago
36 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Every Election Year That Changed My Life
Send us a text In the final episode of the year, Jason Ball takes a moment to look back not just at 2025, but at a life shaped by big transitions, many of them coinciding with presidential election years. From high school to his first job in television to becoming a news director, to finally stepping away and building something new, this episode is about evolution, reinvention, and what comes after the headlines. Jason reflects on launching Life After News and Desert Dispatch, joining the Coa...
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1 week ago
15 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Lora McLaughlin Peterson returns with LORIFIED: The Cookbook…and other updates
Send us a text Life After News has some big updates, and this episode is a perfect example of why. You never really know where this road leads until you look up and realize someone took a local TV segment, turned it into a digital brand, and then turned that into a full-blown cookbook. Lora McLaughlin Peterson is back, and she’s pulling back the curtain on what it really takes to get a cookbook from idea to your kitchen counter. Spoiler: it’s not “throw some recipes together and send it to a ...
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2 weeks ago
41 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Strip Clubs, Sedated Puppies & Hidden Cameras: Inside David Goldstein’s Wildest Investigations
Send us a text If David Goldstein showed up at your door, you were having a bad day. For decades, the longtime Los Angeles investigative reporter exposed corruption, waste, and abuse from LA city workers drinking and hitting strip clubs on the clock, to pet stores sedating puppies to make them easier to sell, to delivery drivers snacking on your food before it got to your door. Now two years into retirement from KCBS/KCAL, David joins Jason to talk about the real work behind those headline-ma...
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3 weeks ago
36 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ When to Chase the Dream and When to Walk Away: Liberté Chan’s Life After News
Send us a text Meteorologist Liberté Chan joins Jason for a raw, vulnerable, and very real conversation about knowing when to chase the dream and when to walk away from it. From her early days as an intern at KTLA to anchoring in Palm Springs, to “manifesting” her way back on-air in Los Angeles, Liberté shares how sheer persistence (and a few strategically timed visits to the news director’s office) helped her land her dream job as a meteorologist on the KTLA Weekend Morning News. She opens u...
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1 month ago
35 minutes

Life After News
📰 The Future of Local Journalism; How You Can Make a Difference
Send us a text Join host Jason Ball and guest Randy Lovely, former newspaper executive and current President of the Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation (CVJF), for a deep dive into the evolution of the news industry, the decline of newspapers' financial heyday, and the critical importance of supporting local journalism. Today is Giving Tuesday! Support Local Journalism! In this episode, Randy Lovely stresses that local journalism is vital to the health and fabric of a community. The best w...
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1 month ago
43 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ The Reporter Who Never Backed Down: Hank Plante vs. America’s Politicians
Send us a text He asked George W. Bush if he was smart enough to be president., confronted Dick Cheney about his lesbian daughter and gay rights mid-campaign, and gave Gavin Newsom both his best and worst interviews. This week on Life After News, Jason sits down with legendary San Francisco political reporter Hank Plante for a wide-ranging, conversation about power, politics, the AIDS crisis, and why both of them chose a new chapter in Palm Springs. 🌴🎙️ Hank Plante is an Emmy- and Peabody-win...
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1 month ago
32 minutes

Life After News
🎙️Producing Compassion From TV News to Project Angel Food with Richard Ayoub
Send us a text In this episode of Life After News, Jason Ball sits down with his longtime friend Richard Ayoub, the CEO of Project Angel Food, as Richard celebrates his 10th anniversary leading the organization. From the control rooms of KCAL 9 to the bustling kitchen that now prepares over 1.5 million medically tailored meals a year, Richard shares how his television producing skills, storytelling, deadlines, and people management, have fueled his success in the nonprofit world. 🕊️ From News...
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1 month ago
49 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Life After News: How to Become an Independent Video Journalist with Fernando Hurtado
Send us a text Life After News: How to Become an Independent Video Journalist with Fernando Hurtado Episode: Life After News Guest: Fernando Hurtado (creator of In the Hyphen) Host: Jason Ball Episode summary A step-by-step masterclass on going solo as a video journalist. Fernando Hurtado left a “dream job” at NBC/Telemundo to launch In the Hyphen, a YouTube channel covering U.S. Latino life with deeply researched, visually rich mini-docs. We dig into why he made the leap, how he pick...
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2 months ago
44 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Helicopter Pilot/Reporter Larry Welk Files a New Flight Path 🚁
Send us a text 🎧 Larry Welk: Veteran helicopter reporter, aviation entrepreneur, and grandson of television legend Lawrence Welk 🚁 Episode Summary If you’ve ever watched a police pursuit in Los Angeles, chances are you’ve heard Larry Welk’s voice from above. Larry was in the helicopter for the very first televised police pursuit in L.A. history in 1992 and he’s been part of nearly every major aerial story since. In this episode, Jason Ball catches up with Larry to talk about his remarkable jo...
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2 months ago
41 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ What’s on the Menu for Food Critic Tom Sietsema’s Life After News
Send us a text This week, Jason Ball sits down with the legendary Tom Sietsema, who recently retired after nearly 26 years as The Washington Post’s food critic 🍽️. From dining in disguise to crafting over 1,200 restaurant reviews, Tom shares what it was like living a double life as one of America’s most respected (and most anonymous) culinary voices. Now, he’s stepping into his life after news — trading deadlines for dinner parties and launching a new project called “Lamb Burger Night” 🍔✨ — i...
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2 months ago
34 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Lisa Guerrero: Walking Away, Speaking Up, and Becoming a Warrior 💥🎙️
Send us a text Guest: Lisa Guerrero (investigative journalist, author of Warrior) Host: Jason Ball Link: 👉 lisaguerrero.com Episode vibe: Courage, accountability, and what it really takes to speak truth to power. Content note: This episode includes discussion of pregnancy loss and workplace trauma. What we cover Why Lisa chose to leave Inside Edition after 18 years and what that says about a crisis in establishment media 🗞️How reclaiming her voice became the turning point that powered award...
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2 months ago
45 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ From Early Web Producer to Change-Maker: Olsen Ebright on How You Can Make a Difference 💻🗞️🏘️
Send us a text What happens when a millennial “big J” journalist who helped build TV news on the internet trades breaking news for neighborhood impact? In this episode, Olsen Ebright (KTLA/KNBC/CBS) joins Jason to unpack the birth of digital news, the social-media rollercoaster, sane push-alert strategy, and why hyper-local politics might be your most powerful lever for change. 👉 Listen & subscribe now to hear practical, no-nonsense lessons for journalists, creators, and civic nerds alike...
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3 months ago
41 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ From Reporting to Working with Reese Witherspoon: Simone Boyce’s Life After News
Send us a text This week, Jason sits down with Simone Boyce, former KTLA reporter, MTV News & Access Hollywood host, and the very first anchor of NBC News Signal (now NBC News Now). From those early experimental days of streaming news to hosting The Bright Side for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Simone has lived many chapters of life in and after news. And now? She’s eyeing a future in political comedy. 🎭✨ Simone opens up about: 🌎 Breaking into 30 Rock and building something new...
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3 months ago
28 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Christina McLarty Arquette on Jumping from Entertainment Reporter to Indie Producer (and Reviving Bozo) 🎬🤹‍♀️🐄
Send us a text Christina McLarty Arquette walked away from on-air entertainment reporting to build a prolific producing career across documentaries and scripted features. In this episode, we dig into how she finished her first doc Survivor’s Guide to Prison, produced the cult-favorite You Cannot Kill David Arquette, brought film productions to Arkansas (including Jason's hometown), and why she and David Arquette are reimagining…Bozo the Clown. Episode Highlights Career Reboot with Purpose: Bu...
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3 months ago
52 minutes

Life After News
Breaking Barriers, Finding Radical Joy & Redefining Storytelling with May Lee
Send us a text In this episode of Life After News, Jason Ball sits down with international journalist May Lee. May is a former CNN and ABC News correspondent, anchor, talk show host, professor, and now co-host of the hit podcast Shoes Off Inside. ✨ May shares her remarkable journey: From small-market local news to becoming CNN’s “disaster queen” covering global crises 🌍Breaking into Japanese media as one of the first Asian American journalists on NHK 🇯🇵Reporting through earthquakes, att...
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3 months ago
45 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ How You Go from Journalism to PR: Lessons from Josh Rubenstein 🎙️➡️🛡️
Send us a text 🎙️ This episode doubles as your playbook. You’ve told stories on deadline; now you’re thinking about owning the story for an organization. Here’s how to make the jump from newsroom to PR on purpose, not in panic. What you’ll learn 🧭 How to plan your pivot years before you need itThe real difference between reporting news and making newsHow to operate inside big orgs where buy-in beats speedCrisis rules: why the story always changes and how you communicate thatThe mindset shift ...
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3 months ago
35 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Bonus Episode: Technology for Your Life After News
Send us a text Feeling stuck in a career rut or ready for a new chapter? This bonus episode of Life After News is for you! 🎙️✨This week I’m sharing a special bonus conversation with my friend Rich DeMuro—tech reporter, host of Rich on Tech, and all-around gadget guy. ⚡ We dive into how off-the-shelf tech like AI, Canva, and Riverside.fm makes it possible for anyone to create their own podcast 🎧 and newsletter 📰 without a big newsroom behind them. From my leap out of TV news to running a Palm ...
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4 months ago
12 minutes

Life After News
“Do you want to be Princess Leia’s assistant?” Byron Lane’s Life After News 🎙️✨
Send us a text Author/playwright/former TV newsie Byron Lane talks origin stories, on-air anxiety, assisting Carrie Fisher, chasing the Northern Lights, indie films, best-selling novels, big love, and bigger reinventions. This one’s honest, funny, and full of heart. 💛 What you’ll hear 🚨 “I’m still just telling stories.” Why the news muscle never leaves🏕️ Boy Scout tour → WWL legend. Byron’s “pharmacist moment”⏰ Overnights + 8am classes. Grit that built a storyteller😬 The cost of ‘live.’ On-ai...
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4 months ago
43 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Bonus Episode: Can Nonprofits Save Local News? 📰✨
Send us a text In this special bonus episode of Life After News, Jason Ball sits down with Emily Barr, longtime media executive and former president of Graham Media Group. With decades of leadership at WLS in Chicago and Graham’s TV stations, Emily has seen firsthand how local journalism has changed and why its survival depends on innovation, collaboration, and nonprofit support. 🤝 Now retired from daily station management but deeply active in the industry, Emily serves on the boards of the A...
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4 months ago
32 minutes

Life After News
Send us a text Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of the year. Jason Ball sits down with longtime TV journalist and beloved morning-show personality Lisa Breckenridge to talk about what happens when the newsroom chapter ends, but the storyteller isn’t finished. Lisa opens up about her unexpected exit from Fox, the identity shift that comes with leaving television, and the advice Maria Shriver gave her in a makeup room that helped change everything. Lisa shares how the very thing ...