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How CBS lost its way
With one America’s biggest news broadcasters, CBS News, reportedly in turmoil under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, Alan and Lionel are joined by former …
1 day, 2 hours ago
Trump, Maduro and the Washington Post
This week, Alan and Lionel return to their Media Confidential duties to analyse the good, the bad and the ugly media reactions to the US abduction of…
4 days, 2 hours ago
Are we losing our civil liberties?
Season 3 Episode 34
You’ve been listening to the Prospect Podcast, Media Confidential’s sister podcast. To subscribe on Spotify, click HERE. For Apple podcasts, click HE…
1 week ago
‘Despair is a luxury’: A year of hope with Zizek, Mehdi Hasan, Robert Macfarlane and others
Season 3 Episode 33
You’ve been listening to the Prospect Podcast, Media Confidential’s sister podcast. To subscribe on Spotify, click HERE. For Apple podcasts, click HE…
2 weeks ago
Cory Doctorow: How the internet went to sh*t
Season 3 Episode 32
You’ve been listening to the Prospect Podcast, Media Confidential’s sister podcast. To subscribe on Spotify, click HERE. For Apple podcasts, click HE…
3 weeks ago
Only in Denmark? The ‘existential editor’ covering life, death, love and everything in between
Season 3 Episode 31
Back in July, Alan and Lionel were joined by Line Vaaben, who is ‘existential editor’ at Danish newspaper Politiken.
Line and her team write stories t…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Zanny Minton Beddoes on Steve Bannon: ‘Comparing Trump to Moses was quite something’
Season 3 Episode 30
Does “no-platforming” have a place in journalism?
Alan and Lionel are joined by Zanny Minton Beddoes, the editor-in-chief of the Economist.They discu…
4 weeks ago
What’s next for Alan Rusbridger?
Season 3 Episode 29
As his time as editor comes to an end, Alan talks to Lionel about his final edition of Prospect—and what he plans to do next. He reflects on his time…
1 month ago
The investigative journalists resisting legal threats
Season 3 Episode 28
Franz Wild is our guest on this week’s Media Confidential. He’s the editor-in-chief and CEO of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism—also known as “…
1 month ago
‘I’m with you on the free press, it’s the newspapers I can’t stand’: What Tom Stoppard got right about journalism
Season 3 Episode 27
This week, Alan and Lionel discuss editorial independence, the BBC’s search for a new director general and ask if the current structure is even worki…
1 month, 1 week ago