Podcast Episodes
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Season 10 Episode 16
Recent weeks have not been very comfortable for the BBC. A documentary about Gaza it refused to broadcast was aired instead by a competitor, to criti…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up
Season 10 Episode 15
Last year, Branko Brkic, the founder of the Daily Maverick, a South African news outlet, left his day job to launch an advocacy campaign in defense o…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza
Season 10 Episode 14
For nearly twenty years, Arwa Damon worked as a journalist covering conflict zones across the Middle East—much of it as a prominent correspondent for…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East
Season 10 Episode 13
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning Iraqi journalist for The Guardian and the author of A Stranger in Your Own City (2023), a reported memoir of hi…
1 year, 4 months ago
What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?
Season 10 Episode 12
David Fahrenthold won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2016 reporting on how Donald Trump’s lifetime of charitable giving was largely a mirage.
Nine years l…
1 year, 4 months ago
‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams
Season 10 Episode 11
For more than thirty years, Phil Williams has been the steadying voice of investigative reporting at NewsChannel 5, in Nashville. His deep dives into…
1 year, 5 months ago
‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media
Season 10 Episode 10
Last week, Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the end of funding for NPR and PBS. It’s the latest attempt by conservatives to cut bac…
1 year, 5 months ago
Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network
Season 10 Episode 9
A few years ago, El Salvador was one of the most violent nations in the world, with gang killings taking the lives of dozens of people every week.
Na…
1 year, 6 months ago
Kai Ryssdal Was America’s Economic Voice of Reason This Week
Season 10 Episode 8
Kai Ryssdal has been the host of Marketplace, a leading daily radio show and podcast about the economy, produced by American Public Media, since 2005…
1 year, 6 months ago
Carlos Watson Goes Free: A Surprising Coda to the CJR Podcast
Season 10 Episode 7
Prosecutors weren’t notified in advance, witnesses are in shock—and Watson’s family celebrates his freedom.
On the day that Carlos Watson, the founder…
1 year, 7 months ago