Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
How Authoritarians Erase the Past
The Columbia Journalism Review recently invited journalists, academics, and experts to convene at a conference called "FaultLines: Democracy." In thi…
3 years, 5 months ago
Hearts and Minds Media
For decades, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have broadcast into countries all over, in dozens of languages. Yet in some places …
3 years, 6 months ago
Feven Merid: On Jacaranda Nigeria Limited
In 1982, about twenty Black journalists quit their jobs at American networks, banded together under the name Jacaranda Nigeria Limited, and flew to N…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jeff Gerth on the press versus the president
Last week, the Columbia Journalism Review published a four-part investigation into the media’s fraught relationship with Donald Trump. In this episod…
3 years, 8 months ago
FT's Rana Foroohar: What the Davos Crowd Doesn't See
After two decades of attending the World Economic Forum's annual gathering of business elites in Davos, Rana Foroohar, associate editor of the Financ…
3 years, 9 months ago
Jon Allsop Returns. Plus, What We’re Watching in 2023
At the start of January, Jon Allsop, chief writer of Columbia Journalism Review’s newsletter, The Media Today, tuned back into the news after a two-m…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Tow Center’s Emily Bell: Musk’s Twitter is “openly hostile” to journalists. What should we do?
Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter has inspired news headlines once unimaginable (see New York Magazine's "Elon Musk is Selling Off Twitter’s Cafeteria…
3 years, 10 months ago
Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast
Welcome to the weird, wild, scintillatingly stylish, and syntactically sound world of RED PEN—the grammar podcast that won't put you to sleep. Broug…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Guardian’s David Smith: Covering a new chapter of Trump
Writing for The Guardian last week, Washington bureau chief David Smith recalled that Donald Trump, announcing his run for presidency at Mar-a-Lago, …
3 years, 11 months ago
Ross Barkan’s Notes on Election Coverage: Form, Function, and the Future
On today’s Kicker, what the media got right and wrong in the 2022 midterm election. Ross Barkan, a politics reporter for New York magazine, The Natio…
3 years, 11 months ago