Sep 27, 2026 · 54 min · 9 segments
This week on Sticky Note Conversations, we're revisiting our conversation with award-winning journalist Michael Lyle — a discussion that feels more urgent than ever. As press freedom faces…
I think the first article that was done on Make It Work Nevada was actually done by you.
And I hadn't forgotten about the article, but I don't think I'd realized that was like our first, you know, first like big piece of press.
and we had our panel around black women in politics and so so thank you for covering us and Wanting to think about what life is like as a journalist.
I think, like I said earlier, there are people who I think sort of believe that it looks like what you see in a movie or what have you, which I mean, I guess sometimes it can.
But a lot of times I feel as though people see journalists as either journalists.
They're like the bad guy sometimes in movies because they're so dogged and they, you know, not going to stop on this story.
And they'll go to any lengths to, you know, do X, Y, and Z, which I guess could also look adventurous, I guess.
But also, on the other hand, it just looks like, you know, you're sitting in a room with piles of paper around you and smoking a cigarette and being angsty and angry all the time.
Although if I see one more journalism movie where like the particularly the female journalist goes and sleeps with the source for information, I might actually throw my laptop because it's such a destructive, gross trope that never happens.
And it takes away from the whole ethics class that you have to take if you go into journalism.
I think I don't remember technically being covered, but I think it was somewhere in there
I think the first article that was done on Make It Work Nevada was actually done by you.
And I hadn't forgotten about the article, but I don't think I'd realized that was like our first, you know, first like big piece of press.
and we had our panel around black women in politics and so so thank you for covering us and Wanting to think about what life is like as a journalist.
I think, like I said earlier, there are people who I think sort of believe that it looks like what you see in a movie or what have you, which I mean, I guess sometimes it can.
But a lot of times I feel as though people see journalists as either journalists.
They're like the bad guy sometimes in movies because they're so dogged and they, you know, not going to stop on this story.
And they'll go to any lengths to, you know, do X, Y, and Z, which I guess could also look adventurous, I guess.
But also, on the other hand, it just looks like, you know, you're sitting in a room with piles of paper around you and smoking a cigarette and being angsty and angry all the time.
Although if I see one more journalism movie where like the particularly the female journalist goes and sleeps with the source for information, I might actually throw my laptop because it's such a destructive, gross trope that never happens.
And it takes away from the whole ethics class that you have to take if you go into journalism.
I think I don't remember technically being covered, but I think it was somewhere in there
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