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The Kicker is a news podcast hosted by Columbia Journalism Review. It has 323 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

The Kicker is a podcast on the media and the world today. It comes out twice a month, hosted by Josh Hersh and produced by Amanda Darrach for the Columbia Journalism Review. It is available wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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Student, Teacher: Eric Gustafson on fighting for journalistic integrity at every level.

2

The Inside Look: Chatting with the New York Times’ trust editor.

3

Lessons from an Early-Career Journalist

4

A Look Back at Covering Gaza for the Post

5

Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future

6

The Letter of the Law, and the Law in Practice

7

Outlier Media Reimagines What Local News Can Be

8

A Veteran of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—and its Long Strike—Prepares for What’s Next

9

How the Gawker Trial Was the Gateway to Trump: Examining a political legacy, ten years on.

10

Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth

11

Why You Should Never Marry a Journalist—and Other Lessons from Decades in Media

12

Jay Rosen on the Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

13

Ben Smith Isn’t Afraid of the Future

14

How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs

15

The Future of Journalism After Gaza

16

Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros

17

Journalism 2050 - Trailer

18

Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics

19

Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE

20

Elle Reeve on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes

21

Garrett Graff Thinks the Press Should Be Taking Trump’s Health Much More Seriously

22

Hind Hassan Is Sorry We Didn’t Do More to Make Journalism Safe

23

Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?

24

What’s the Matter with the BBC?

25

The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up

26

The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza

27

The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East

28

What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?

29

‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams

30

‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media

31

Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network

32

Kai Ryssdal Was America’s Economic Voice of Reason This Week

33

Carlos Watson Goes Free: A Surprising Coda to the CJR Podcast

34

Molly White Knows You Don’t Understand Crypto

35

The Legal War on Journalism

36

The Kicker, the Masseuses, and the Price of Doing Sports Journalism

37

A Warning from a Hungarian Journalist: ‘Brace Yourself for the Worst’

38

CJR’s Jon Allsop on the Return of the Trump Whirlwind

39

Coda’s Natalia Antelava on Meta, Trump, and How Journalism Can Survive 2025

40

The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 3: The Verdict and the Pain

41

The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 2: Built on a Bluff

42

The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 1: Truth and Mythmaking

43

Coming Soon: The Unraveling of Ozy Media

44

How Trump Won the Latino Vote: A Deep Dive with CJR Contributor Jack Herrera

45

Martin Baron on Jeff Bezos, the Post, and the role of presidential endorsements

46

How Trump’s team could craft ‘the narrative’ after the election: NBC’s Ryan Reilly on 2020, and the road ahead

47

Hell Gate's Chris Robbins on a manic news cycle in New York

48

The power of uncomfortable ideas: Jina Moore Ngarambe on her time at Guernica

49

‘That’s how you run a debate!’: 9News’s Kyle Clark on holding politicians accountable

50

The long, destructive path of fire: Talking to Source NM’s Patrick Lohmann about a never-ending wildfire season

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