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The GB News Propaganda Machine
Season 1 Episode 28
This week, Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber are joined by Gavin Esler and Michael Crick as they get stuck into GB News, broadcaster bias—and what it…
1 year, 9 months ago
Counting the casualties of war
Season 1 Episode 27
In any war, counting the number of people killed is challenging. So, too, is understanding how they died. In Gaza, where the still-rising death toll …
1 year, 9 months ago
Gary Younge: Dog bites man *is* the story after all
Season 1 Episode 26
Journalists are often taught that “when a dog bites a man, that is not news; when a man bites a dog, that is news.” But, according to former Guardian…
1 year, 9 months ago
Trump’s Public Enemy Number One?
Season 1 Episode 25
Alan and Lionel sit down with AG Sulzberger, chair and publisher of the New York Times. AG took over as publisher of the New York Times six years ago…
1 year, 10 months ago
The demise of Vice and BuzzFeed: what happened to millennial media?
Season 1 Episode 24
Vice and BuzzFeed were once at the forefront of the digital media revolution—Vice alone was once valued at nearly double the New York Times! But now,…
1 year, 10 months ago
Bonus episode: Should Paul Marshall be allowed to buy the Telegraph?
Season 1 Episode 23
An investigation by Hope Not Hate reported this week that Paul Marshall, owner of GB News and UnHerd and frontrunner in the race to buy the Telegraph…
1 year, 10 months ago
Are journalists being targeted in Gaza?
Season 1 Episode 22
Does the word “PRESS” on a flak jacket keep a journalist safe or make them a target? In this week’s Media Confidential, we focus on the sobering deat…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ask the Editors: Ofcom, GB News and Biden on TikTok
Season 1 Episode 21
What motivates the media world behind the clickbait? What drives broadcast, print and digital media producers and journalists? In this episode, Alan …
1 year, 10 months ago
Is this the future of local news?
Season 1 Episode 20
Amid great concern over the provision of local news in the UK and beyond, could organisations such as the Manchester Mill and the Bristol Cable chall…
1 year, 11 months ago
Is the right-wing media ‘out of control’?
Season 1 Episode 19
Can Rishi Sunak still rely on what has often been called the “Conservative media”, or are news organisations on the political right becoming increasi…
1 year, 11 months ago