EP29: Political Economy of the Media; Macroeconomics of War

In our April episode, we spoke with Rajeev Ravisankar, a researcher and journalist whose work focuses on the political economy of media — specifically on labor organizing in newsrooms and the growing movement toward worker-run media cooperatives. Rajeev brings a political economy framework to questions that mainstream media criticism rarely asks: who owns the news, under what conditions is it produced, and what happens when journalists organize to change those conditions. We were delighted to have him join us for a conversation about the economics and politics of the media industry. In our Dollars and Sense debrief, Chris Sturr interviews economist John Miller about the macroeconomic impacts of the war in Iran. #media #news #iran #unions *** Taki and Sirisha interview Rajeev Ravisankar - 2:20 minutes Dollars and Sense Debrief with Chris Sturr and John Miller - 28:30 minutes