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Hiring on the cheap: Are news organisations exploiting young journalists?
Season 3 Episode 70
In this week’s Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel discuss the changing winds at Ofcom, after its prospective new chair was scrutinised by a select c…
1 month, 1 week ago
Investigative journalist Gabriel Pogrund: ‘Go after big targets because they deserve to be pursued, not because you want to take them down’
Season 3 Episode 69
In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel talk to Gabriel Pogrund, newly appointed editor of Insight, the Sunday Times investigative tea…
1 month, 1 week ago
Will Ofcom finally sanction GB News?
Season 3 Episode 68
In this week’s Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel discuss Ofcom finally investigating GB News over their second airing of a controversial interview …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Liam Byrne: What happens when populists win?
Season 3 Episode 67
In this episode of Media Confidential Alan and Lionel talk to Liam Byrne, Labour MP for for Birmingham Hodge hill and Solihull and author of Why Popu…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Slapped: Why can’t we talk about Nigel Farage’s crypto donations?
Season 3 Episode 66
In today’s Media Confidential Alan and Lionel discuss Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. With recent revelations that he received £5m in personal donatio…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Killing with impunity: the death of Amal Khalil in Lebanon
Season 3 Episode 65
In this week’s Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel talk to Yara Hawari, co-director of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian policy network, about the dangers …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Trump: AI accusations and assassination attempts
Season 3 Episode 65
In this episode Alan and Lionel discuss the White House correspondents’ dinner and the alarm at how a lone shooter was able to break through levels o…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Press Gazette and the end of ‘Barbara Santini’
Season 3 Episode 64
On today’s Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford to discuss the magazine’s investigative work into …
2 months ago
Mandygate: The megaton bomb that shook Westminster
Season 3 Episode 63
This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel discuss the top story of the week—Peter Mandelson’s failed security vetting before he was appointed …
2 months ago
Sidney Blumenthal: ‘There’s about to be a real, severe change in American politics’
Season 3 Episode 62
This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Sidney Blumenthal, journalist and former adviser to the Clintons.
As a judge throws out…
2 months, 1 week ago