Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWho Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough
Episode 163
Why are people judged on whether or not they are compelling? Why isn’t telling the truth enough? What are people really listening for when others sha…
3 years, 3 months ago
Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 45
In a world awash in “fake news,” where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across the …
3 years, 3 months ago
Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco with Victoria Bouloubasis
Episode 48
Journalist Victoria Bouloubasis discusses her career reporting on agricultural and food labor in North Carolina, her approach to labor journalism, an…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey
Episode 50
What is the future of news? In the twentieth century Western-educated journalists championed impartial, unbiased news – which always seemed rather od…
3 years, 3 months ago
Martin Scott and Kate Wright, "Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 354
How can the news better reflect important global issues? In Humanitarian Journalists Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone (Routledge, 2022), Drs Mart…
3 years, 4 months ago
“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Episode 30
Journalist John Markoff has been writing about Silicon Valley for over forty years. In this interview with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel, Markoff …
3 years, 4 months ago
Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
Episode 160
In Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters (Zero Books, 2022), Ben Burgis reminds readers about what was…
3 years, 4 months ago
Thomas Poell et al., "Platforms and Cultural Production" (Polity, 2022)
Episode 5
Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series.
In this episode, our co-hosts Aswin Punathambekar and Jing Wang discusses the b…
3 years, 4 months ago
Postscript: Narrative and Influence Activities in the Russo-Ukraine War
Episode 15
For almost a year now, we have been absorbing news and information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There are a variety of different, or competing…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Editor and Humility: A Conversation with the NYT's Peter Catapano
Episode 16
In this episode we talk with New York Times Opinion Section Editor Peter Catapano, who has edited and published more than 1,000 pieces in The Times a…
3 years, 4 months ago