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Q&A: Advice for aspiring editors? Get a backbone!
Season 2 Episode 14
On this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel are back with a postbag of questions.
One listener wonders if AI makes exposing the truth almost impossible, while…
1 year, 2 months ago
Michael Lewis on his critics: “It’s all horseshit”
Season 2 Episode 13
Alan and Lionel are joined by Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of The Big Short and The Blind Side.
His new book Going Infinite chronicles the ri…
1 year, 2 months ago
Q&A: Is an editor's life just about boozy lunches?
Season 2 Episode 12
From today's hottest new columnists to the perils of fine wine, Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber discuss listeners' questions with characteristic dr…
1 year, 2 months ago
Esther Solomon: Editing in a war zone
Season 2 Episode 11
Alan and Lionel are joined by Esther Solomon, editor of the English language edition of Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper known for critically reporting …
1 year, 3 months ago
Q&A: Should social media platforms be legally regulated?
Season 2 Episode 10
Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dig into the Media Confidential mailbox to answer listeners' questions about the media. This week, they discuss pol…
1 year, 3 months ago
Justine Roberts: Mumsnet takes on Big Tech
Season 2 Episode 9
Justine Roberts is not happy. Earlier this year she discovered that tech giant OpenAI has been scraping Mumsnet—the successful website of which she i…
1 year, 3 months ago
Q&A: What went wrong at the Evening Standard?
Season 2 Episode 8
In this episode of Media Confidential Q&A, Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dig into the mailbox to tackle listeners' questions about the media indu…
1 year, 3 months ago
Tim Snyder: Why a Trump victory is a threat to freedom
Season 2 Episode 7
Alan and Lionel are joined by Yale history professor and leading scholar of Soviet Russia, Tim Snyder. Snyder’s new book, On Freedom, explores the ri…
1 year, 3 months ago
Q&A: How does an in-depth investigation begin?
Season 2 Episode 6
In this episode of Media Confidential Q&A, Alan and Lionel return with the answers to all your burning questions and shed some light on the inner wor…
1 year, 3 months ago
Elon Musk: The Man Who Destroyed Twitter
Season 2 Episode 5
Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber talk to NYT tech journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac about their new book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed…
1 year, 3 months ago