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Is assisted dying moral? Rowan Williams and Brenda Hale in conversation
Would legalising assisted dying end unnecessary suffering? Or would it instead enable the abuse of some of society’s most vulnerable people?
Kim Leadb…
1 year ago
2024 in review: From Sanewashing to the Observer sale
Season 2 Episode 32
For our final episode of 2024, Alan and Lionel look back at their Media Confidential year. They’ve tackled a huge range of stories: from phone-hackin…
1 year ago
Q&A: Will machines replace us?
Season 2 Episode 31
Could machine-generated articles replace those created by human beings?
After their series on AI in the media, Alan and Lionel now turn to listeners’ …
1 year ago
AI: Powering newsrooms of the future?
Season 2 Episode 30
Can traditional journalism survive when ChatGPT is able to produce copy in a matter of seconds?
In Media Confidential’s third episode in a series expl…
1 year ago
Q&A: The Daily Mail's sidebar of shame
Season 2 Episode 29
What do you do if a big story breaks on Christmas Day and there's a skeleton crew running the newsroom?
That's just one of the seasonal questions put …
1 year ago
The Murdoch Succession and the limits of AI
Season 2 Episode 28
In the second episode on our series focusing on AI's impact on the media industry, Alan and Lionel talk to the executive chairman of Sky News, David …
1 year, 1 month ago
Q&A: What's REALLY going on at the Observer?
Season 2 Episode 27
Office streakers, whiskey before lunchtime, and untimely deaths: with Christmas party season almost upon us,
Alan and Lionel get nostalgic for the ol…
1 year, 1 month ago
AI: how to stop Big Tech ripping off journalism (again)
Season 2 Episode 26
In the first of three special editions on artificial intelligence and the media, Alan and Lionel are joined by the CEO of ProRata.ai, Bill Gross.
Arti…
1 year, 1 month ago
Q&A: Lionel’s Wild Ride
Season 2 Episode 25
In this week’s Q&A, Lionel Barber takes centre stage to tell the tale of a largely unknown man who, for three days, was the richest man in the world.…
1 year, 1 month ago
Trump 2.0: Buckle up! It’s going to be wild
Season 2 Episode 24
“Fake news”, lies, and a deep distrust of the “mainstream media”: these all marked the Trump’s first presidency. But will Trump 2.0 only usher in mor…
1 year, 1 month ago