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Q&A: What makes a good reporter?
Season 2 Episode 81
This week, Alan and Lionel discuss every editor’s nightmare: what do you do if news breaks just as the papers have gone to print?
They also explain “p…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Scaramucci on Trump: ‘He’s going to tell 10,000 lies this year as president’
Season 2 Episode 80
This week’s guest on Media Confidential is Anthony Scaramucci, financier and former communications director at the White House. He now co-hosts The R…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Q&A: Where do you get your information about the Middle East?
Season 2 Episode 79
In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel are asked where they go for analysis of the situation in the Middle East, including the Israel-Iran war.
They als…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Substack’s co-founder: Elon Musk ‘saw it as a declaration of war’
Season 2 Episode 78
This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack.
The platform, which now has over five million …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Q&A: How do you help the BBC?
Season 2 Episode 77
In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel discuss a media screw up: who’s to blame for the Telegraph publishing a fake story about the fictional “Al Moy” a…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Why AI companies don’t want journalism to exist
Season 2 Episode 76
In this week's episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Karen Hao, journalist and author of Empire of AI.
Karen talks about being …
7 months ago
Q&A: What's the biggest risk you've ever taken?
Season 2 Episode 75
In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel look back over their journalistic careers and recall their toughest decisions.
The former editors also discuss why…
7 months ago
The new wave of approachable journalism
Season 2 Episode 74
In this week’s episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel talk to Vox editor-in-chief Swati Sharma.
They discuss why Vox’s change in style is work…
7 months, 1 week ago
Q&A: Would you have interviewed Hitler?
Season 2 Episode 73
In this week’s Q&A episode, Alan and Lionel are asked if they would ever pay for an interview—and if there are any interviewees who would be off limi…
7 months, 1 week ago
Does ‘free speech’ even exist?
Season 6 Episode 72
This week, Alan and Lionel are joined by historian Fara Dabhoiwala to discuss his new book What is Free Speech?They discuss how the concept of “free …
7 months, 2 weeks ago