Best Get Em Magazine Podcasts (2024)

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As Hurricanes Get Stronger, Can a $34 Billion Plan Save Texas? 32:36

5d ago32:36

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After Hurricane Ike destroyed thousands of homes and inflicted an estimated $30 billion in damages in 2008, engineers hatched an ambitious plan to protect southeast Texas and its coastal refineries and shipping routes from violent storms. The $34 billion collaboration spearheaded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a harbinger of the type of mas…

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How to Sweat Like an Olympian 30:22

28d ago30:22

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Have you ever felt embarrassed by the need to carry a towel, or even a fresh shirt, with you during the most sweltering months of the year? You shouldn’t. Sweating is one of the most remarkable ways our bodies protect themselves when the mercury heads north. With summer temperatures spiking around the world as the sweat-filled Olympic Games begin i…

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Trump and conspiracies: Does the truth even matter now? 46:10

26d ago46:10

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Following the shocking attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, social media platforms were flooded not only with truthful accounts of what happened at the rally, but also with lies, conspiracies and “fake news” concerning the shooting. Alan and Lionel are joined by Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at New York Universit…

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New York State Poet Laureate Patricia S. Jones, On The HWM Podcast With Danny Tisdale 28:02

27d ago28:02

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the latest episode of the Harlem World Magazine (HWM) Podcast, your monthly deep dive into the captivating stories shaping our world of Harlem. This month, we're thrilled to feature an exclusive conversation with Patricia S. Jones, a distinguished poet, educator, cultural activist, and anthologist and publisher Da…

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Survey: Help Us Design Our Future Season 0:34

29d ago0:34

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We're over here making podcasts, and you're over there listening. Let's bridge that gap! We want to know more about you, like: why you're listening, what your favorite topics are, and what Smithsonian magazine can do to make "There's More to That" even better. Tell us what you think at smithsonianmag.com/podcastsurvey.…

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The Wild Story of What Happened to Pablo Escobar’s Hungry, Hungry Hippos 29:31

2M ago29:31

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Four decades ago, Pablo Escobar brought to his Medellín hideaway four hippopotamuses, the centerpieces of a menagerie that included llamas, cheetahs, lions, tigers, ostriches and other exotic fauna. After Colombian police shot Escobar dead in December 1993, veterinarians removed the animals—except the hippos, which were deemed too dangerous to appr…

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Biden: Is the game up for the President? 48:35

1M ago48:35

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Can Biden stay in presidential race or will concern about the state of his health force him out of the running? There are plenty of reporters who say his time is up, but how did the president get to this stage in the campaign without anyone running a health-check on him? Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the New York Times, joins …

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Election 2024: It’s the Sun wot lost it! 47:12

1M ago47:12

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As Britain goes to the polls, what role has the media played in shaping the way that nation votes? Traditionally, the tabloid media, mainly Murdoch’s Sun, had a significant role in influencing the public, simlpy due to the huge swathes of the population that read the paper. But what about this year? Where have the tabloids and the broadsheets put t…

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‘The Crime of the Century,’ a Century Later 35:06

2M ago35:06

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The past hundred years have seen more than one high-profile prosecution branded as the “crime of the century.” The shocking 1924 crime that was among the first to carry the title turned out to be a harbinger of how public mania around criminal cases could influence the legal system, and how psychiatry would be used and abused by prosecutors and def…

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Julian Assange: A landmark moment in press freedom? 54:43

2M ago54:43

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After 12 years without freedom—first after seeking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and then as a prisoner in high-security Belmarsh—Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is free and is back on home soil in Australia. Assange’s crime was to publish classified information leaked from the US Army. He was working alongside Chelsea Mannin…

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Farage’s Reform: the media’s wife—or its mistress? 49:46

2M ago49:46

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Is the UK general election all over even before the first vote is cast? Polls suggest that Labour has an unassailable lead, and so with two weeks of campaigning to go, is there any chance that media coverage could still influence the electorate? Lionel Barber and Alan Rusbridger are joined by two experienced political commentators to discuss how th…

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America’s Best New Restaurant Celebrates the Flavors of West Africa 27:18

3M ago27:18

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African cuisine has always been well represented in the United States, particularly in dishes characterized as “Southern” in origin, like gumbo or hoppin’ john. But even before chef Serigne Mbaye’s New Orleans eatery Dakar NOLA was named the Best New Restaurant of 2024 at the James Beard Awards this week, the contributions of the African diaspora t…

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The Washington Post: the chaos continues 44:28

2M ago44:28

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This week Alan and Lionel follow the latest twists and turns at the Washington Post. The noisy departure of Sally Buzbee, the paper’s former executive editor, continues to reverberate around the media world, following Buzbee’s bust-up with Will Lewis, the Post’s publisher and chief executive, over an article that she approved about a phone hacking …

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Music Writer, Stephanie Woods-McKinney Talks Harlem Hip-Hops Past, Present And Future 28:58

2M ago28:58

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the latest episode of the Harlem World Magazine (HWM) Podcast, your monthly deep dive into the captivating stories shaping our world of Harlem. This June, we're thrilled to feature an exclusive conversation with HWM music writer Stephanie Woods-McKinney, and publisher Danny Tisdale as we discuss the future of Harl…

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The British are coming! How editors from the UK are conquering the American media 50:13

2M ago50:13

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Media circles across the pond are abuzz with the news that Robert Winnett is heading to the USA to take up the job as editor at The Washington Post, but not until after the US election. He’s the latest appointment by publisher Will Lewis following the sudden departure of Sally Buzbee. Winnett joins a handful of British journalists who have moved to…

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How Americans Got Hooked on Counting Calories More Than A Century Ago 36:42

3M ago36:42

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In 1918, Lulu Hunt Peters—one of the first women in America to earn a medical doctorate—published the best seller Diet and Health With Key to the Calories, making a name for herself as an apostle for weight reduction in an era when malnutrition was a far greater public health threat than obesity. She pioneered the idea of measuring food intake via …

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Kara Swisher: How big tech squashed the media 45:32

3M ago45:32

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Kara Swisher—maverick, rock star and tech guru—has interviewed some of the highest profile and biggest personalities on the planet, from Mark Zuckerberg to Barack Obama, Rupert Murdoch and Kim Kardashian. Joining Alan and Lionel on the podcast this week, Kara unpicks the relationship between big tech and the media. Big tech, she says, have no inter…

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The Tory TV Channel 48:54

3M ago48:54

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GB News has repeatedly breached broadcasting regulations, been accused of political bias and featured anti-vax stories—but it got away with such misdemeanors until Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appeared on a show called “The People’s Forum”, in which he was able to outline key Conservative messages, largely unchallenged. Ahead of the general election …

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ENCORE: Those Orcas (Still) Aren't Doing What You Think 28:52

3M ago28:52

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Last summer, news reports of orcas deliberately tearing the propellers off of yachts in the Strait of Gibraltar thrilled observers who were eager to cast these intelligent and social pack hunters as class warriors striking a blow for the “common mammals” against the one percent. That turned out to be wishful thinking, according to guest Lori Marino…

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‘Reporting from a horror movie’: Motaz Azaiza and Youmna El Sayed 47:23

3M ago47:23

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No foreign journalists are allowed into Gaza, so the rest of the world relies on those living in area to relay what is happening on the ground—dedicated and determined reporters who have made sure that no-one can look away. For months, photojournalist Motaz Azaiza and Al Jazeera reporter Youmna El Sayed were among those reporting from Gaza. Motaz h…

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Harlem Post-Mother's Day Podcast To All Mothers From Harlem To Harare 22:22

3M ago22:22

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Send us a Text Message. In a new episode of The HWM Podcast, host, founder and publisher, of Harlem World Magazine’s Danny Tisdale talks about Mother's Day. Tisdale discusses the universal love for moms, and more specifically he answers the 5 W's (who, what, where; when, and why) as he reminisces about his mother Blanche Warner Fruge Tisdale's unwa…

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Phone hacking: What did Murdoch know? 43:57

3M ago43:57

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Investigative journalist Nick Davies returns with yet more remarkable insights and analysis about the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed Murdoch’s papers. Having trawled through documents disclosed through a host of court cases, Davies has pieced together information that suggests figures at the top of the Murdoch news empire—including potentially…

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable Again 35:53

4M ago35:53

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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it covered the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under tons of ash. Millennia later, in the mid-18th century, archeologists began to unearth the city, including its famed libraries, but the scrolls they found were too fragile to be unrolled and read; their contents were thought to be lost forever. Onl…

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The phone hacking scandal: new evidence and fresh claims 45:39

4M ago45:39

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Back in 2009, journalist Nick Davies uncovered a scandal: newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch had been hacking the phones of celebrities, public figures and even victims of crimes—notably the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler—in search of stories. The Leveson inquiry was established to investigate, and the world moved on. For this month’s Prospect mag…

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Meloni’s Media Clampdown 45:36

4M ago45:36

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Lionel Barber and Alan Rusbridger are joined by Maurizio Molinari, editor of Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica to explore exactly what Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is doing with Italian state media. Renowned historian Antonio Scurati was booked to deliver a monologue on a talk show on Italian broadcaster RAI 3 on 25th April, Italy’s Liberation…

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The West Bank according to Gideon Levy: Locked inside a living hell 48:59

5M ago48:59

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Tensions in the Middle East ramped up at the weekend with the massive drone and missile attack launched by Iran on Israel. The eyes of the world refocused on the region, particularly Gaza—but what about the other occupied Palestinian territory, the West Bank? Gideon Levy is an award-winning journalist who has been writing a column in Haaretz called…

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Roads Scholars 25:38

5M ago25:38

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As highways encroach ever further into animal habitats, drivers and wildlife are in greater danger than ever. And off the beaten path, decaying old forest roads are inflicting damage as well. “Roads are this incredibly disruptive force all over the planet that are truly changing wild animals’ lives and our own lives in almost unfathomable, unaccoun…

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Anne Applebaum on Ukraine, the forgotten war 53:28

5M ago53:28

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The war in Ukraine has been grinding on for over two years now, and the media spotlight on the region has dimmed over the last few months. But Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer for the Atlantic, has been following the conflict closely. Because much of the world’s media has turned attention away from Ukraine, with editors…

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Israel kicks out Al Jazeera 39:28

5M ago39:28

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Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has passed a law that will ban foreign media from operating within the country. Al Jazeera is one of the main outlets on the ground providing reportage, and the most watched network in the region—so what impact will the closure of their operations in Israel have on the ability to get news out of the war zone? Alan …

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Why We Love Eclipses 28:30

5M ago28:30

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Eclipses have been a subject of fascination throughout human history, and the fact that we now have a clearer understanding of what they actually are—at least in the celestial mechanics sense—than we did in centuries past has not made them any less exciting. With the North American total solar eclipse just days away as we’re releasing this episode,…

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The GB News Propaganda Machine 50:18

5M ago50:18

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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’s like to watch and appear on the channel. Previously, Alan had tasked Gavin with watching GB News’s output for a month. The outcome? Tory MPs interviewing Tory MPs, “shallow” reporting, and a lack of…

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The Man Behind "Manhunt" 32:50

5M ago32:50

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Before it was even published in 2006, historian James Swanson’s book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer attracted the notice of Hollywood. After several prior attempts to adapt the nonfiction thriller for the screen, the first two episodes of the seven-part Apple TV+ miniseries Manhunt finally premiered on March 15, with the subsequent …

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Counting the casualties of war 53:12

6M ago53:12

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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 already includes 13,450 children, these figures can be obscured by biases, allegations—and the realities on the ground. In this week’s episode, Lionel Barber and Alan Rusbridger are joined by leading s…

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Gary Younge: Dog bites man is the story after all 50:31

6M ago50:31

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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 journalist and professor of sociology at Manchester university Gary Younge, sometimes events are newsworthy because they happen often—journalists just need to get curious about the reasons why. For ex…

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Before Beyoncé and Taylor Swift Ran the World, There Was Joan Baez 32:05

6M ago32:05

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Taylor Swift and Beyoncé have achieved a degree of power in the music industry that singer/songwriters of earlier eras like Joan Baez—as the folk icon tells us—never even contemplated. Six decades ago, Baez was part of a folk revival that regarded music not merely as entertainment but as a vessel for political engagement and social change. In the d…

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Trump’s Public Enemy Number One? 57:58

6M ago57:58

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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 after many years as a hack. His term coincided with that of Donald J Trump, for whom the Times was public enemy number one. AG stood his ground, telling the president to his face that his anti-press r…

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The demise of Vice and BuzzFeed: what happened to millennial media? 49:45

6M ago49:45

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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, both firms have shut their news operations, Vice has closed its flagship site, and further cuts to staff numbers are expected. BuzzFeed’s former UK editor Janine Gibson, now weekend editor of the Fina…

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Bonus episode: Should Paul Marshall be allowed to buy the Telegraph? 21:09

6M ago21:09

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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, had repeatedly liked and re-tweeted racist and Islamophobic content. In this special bonus episode, Alan and Lionel discuss who decides whether someone is fit to own a major UK newspaper, what Ofcom …

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How to Separate Fact From Myth in the Extraordinary Story of Sojourner Truth 38:04

6M ago38:04

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The facts of Sojourner Truth’s life are inspiring: Born into slavery in the late 1790s, she became an influential abolitionist and Pentecostal preacher, transfixing audiences from the mid 1840s through the late 1870s with her candid and powerful voice, not to mention her singing. Tall and strong, Truth was physically formidable, too. No one was usi…

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Are journalists being targeted in Gaza? 43:42

6M ago43:42

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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 death toll of reporters covering the war in Gaza, as highlighted by the annual report of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Alan and Lionel hear from the CPJ’s chief executive Jodie Ginsberg and s…

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Ask the Editors: Ofcom, GB News and Biden on TikTok 47:51

7M ago47:51

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What motivates the media world behind the clickbait? What drives broadcast, print and digital media producers and journalists? In this episode, Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber answer listeners’ questions on media bias in an election year, the impact of 24-hour news on mental health, and whether President Biden should be active on TikTok. Plus—do …

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Is this the future of local news? 47:43

7M ago47:43

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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 challenge famous old papers in some of Britain’s biggest cities and calm long-term fears of areas becoming “news deserts”? Alan and Lionel hear from Joshi Herrmann and Sophie Atkinson from Manchester Mill a…

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Is the right-wing media ‘out of control’? 42:17

7M ago42:17

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Can Rishi Sunak still rely on what has often been called the “Conservative media”, or are news organisations on the political right becoming increasingly hostile to the prime minister? Journalist David Aaronovitch helps Alan and Lionel analyse who and what is driving significant cultural and political shifts in some of the UK’s newsrooms and media …

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How the government captured the BBC 50:11

7M ago50:11

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Alan’s investigation into “Gibb-gate” continues. In a major article for Prospect, he sets out the influence and connections of a tight-knit and largely unaccountable clique which is undermining the political independence and regulation of public service broadcasting. At the centre of that group is Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s director of communicatio…

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How We See Oppenheimer (redux) 18:58

7M ago18:58

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Christopher Nolan's epic new film "Oppenheimer" is no mere biopic… nor is it the first attempt to capture the father of the atomic bomb in fiction. We look at prior dramatizations of this very complicated man—including one wherein J. Robert Oppenheimer played himself!—and examine why they worked or didn't. In this episode: Physicist-turned-photogra…

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Trump v Biden, Round Two: how to cover the US election 46:02

8M ago46:02

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Is Donald Trump now unstoppable in his quest to secure the Republican presidential nomination, after kicking off caucus season with a decisive win in Iowa? As Trump shapes up for another shot at the White House, Alan and Lionel ask how US media can pitch their coverage and analysis to ensure scrutiny of such an unreliable and divisive figure, witho…

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New Year’s Vibes: HWM Contributors Lil Nickelson And Rudy Collins Spill The Beans On HWM Podcast! 29:17

8M ago29:17

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Send us a Text Message. In a new episode of The HWM Podcast, Harlem soprano, Leah Hawkins, talks with Harlem World Magazine’s Founder and Publisher, and host Danny Tisdale. Join us for this great conversation with Lil Nickslins and Rudy Collins on this podcast after the 20th anniversary of Harlem World Magazine. Rudy and Lil kick off the New Year w…

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The Post Office scandal: Toby Jones on his drama’s impact 49:28

8M ago49:28

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Award-winning actor Toby Jones, who plays Alan Bates in ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office, reflects on the drama’s huge public and political impact, alongside its producer Patrick Spence. Alan and Lionel ask why this screen version has cut through in a way that news reporting of the Post Office Horizon scandal did not, with insights from Professor …

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The media world in 2024 37:03

8M ago37:03

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2024 is a crucial year for liberal democracies around the world, with over 50 nations voting in general elections and up to 4.2bn people casting their votes. In this episode, Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber discuss why media election coverage will be more important than ever, as key campaigns spill over from conventional, legacy formats such as p…

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Review of the Year with Beth Rigby 42:09

8M ago42:09

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Sky News’s Political Editor Beth Rigby joins Alan and Lionel to reflect on 2023’s key events and to launch the inaugural Media Confidential “awards”, nominating people, stories and news organisations for recognition in these categories: Most important story of the year Most under-reported story of the year Turkey of the year Political scoop of the …

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