Podcast Episodes

Whose truth is it anyway?

Amol Rajan on the thorny questions of free speech, impartiality and truth in newsrooms.

Guests: Tom Rosenstiel, Executive Director of the American Pr…

5 years, 9 months ago

David vs Goliath

Amol Rajan on the TV channels and online services that have carved out a niche for themselves – away from the big broadcasters.

Guests: Robert Llewel…

5 years, 9 months ago

Who cares about local news?

As job cuts are announced by Reach, the UK’s largest regional newspaper publisher, Amol Rajan looks at initiatives to fund local journalism. Also in …

5 years, 10 months ago

Fake news? Meet the fake journalists

The Daily Beast has published an investigation into a network of fake journalists that placed opinion pieces in dozens of real news outlets. All the …

5 years, 10 months ago

Times Radio launches and Twitch faces reckoning

One of the oldest media brands in the world, The Times, is now running a radio station. Meanwhile, one of the world’s newest - Twitch, the video game…

5 years, 10 months ago

Rethinking advertising

How a global pandemic is changing the advertising industry. Amol Rajan is joined by Johnny Hornby, The&Partnership, Christopher Kenna, Brand Advance,…

5 years, 10 months ago

Opinions on opinion

What role does opinion play in journalism? The editor of The Sunday Times claimed this week that some generations are far less tolerant of opinions t…

5 years, 10 months ago

Who sets the news agenda?

Last week newspaper front pages were dominated by images from Black Lives Matter protests, until Thursday, when the Madeleine McCann case displaced t…

5 years, 11 months ago

Making news free to the world

Katharine Viner is editor in chief of The Guardian. In this extended interview with Amol Rajan she talks about her mission to build one of the world'…

5 years, 11 months ago

Christiane Amanpour and a brief history of CNN

On 1 June 1980, the TV news industry was revolutionised by the launch of CNN, the world's first rolling news channel. Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chie…

5 years, 11 months ago