The Kicker
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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.
The Inside Look: Chatting with the New York Times’ trust editor.
Lessons from an Early-Career Journalist
A Look Back at Covering Gaza for the Post
Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future
The Letter of the Law, and the Law in Practice
Outlier Media Reimagines What Local News Can Be
A Veteran of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—and its Long Strike—Prepares for What’s Next
How the Gawker Trial Was the Gateway to Trump: Examining a political legacy, ten years on.
Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth
Why You Should Never Marry a Journalist—and Other Lessons from Decades in Media
Jay Rosen on the Digital Revolution That Wasn’t
Ben Smith Isn’t Afraid of the Future
How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs
The Future of Journalism After Gaza
Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros
Journalism 2050 - Trailer
Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics
Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE
Elle Reeve on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes
Garrett Graff Thinks the Press Should Be Taking Trump’s Health Much More Seriously
Hind Hassan Is Sorry We Didn’t Do More to Make Journalism Safe
Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?
What’s the Matter with the BBC?
The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up
The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza
The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East
What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?
‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams
‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media
Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network
Kai Ryssdal Was America’s Economic Voice of Reason This Week
Carlos Watson Goes Free: A Surprising Coda to the CJR Podcast
Molly White Knows You Don’t Understand Crypto
The Legal War on Journalism
The Kicker, the Masseuses, and the Price of Doing Sports Journalism
A Warning from a Hungarian Journalist: ‘Brace Yourself for the Worst’
CJR’s Jon Allsop on the Return of the Trump Whirlwind
Coda’s Natalia Antelava on Meta, Trump, and How Journalism Can Survive 2025
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 3: The Verdict and the Pain
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 2: Built on a Bluff
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 1: Truth and Mythmaking
Coming Soon: The Unraveling of Ozy Media
How Trump Won the Latino Vote: A Deep Dive with CJR Contributor Jack Herrera
Martin Baron on Jeff Bezos, the Post, and the role of presidential endorsements
How Trump’s team could craft ‘the narrative’ after the election: NBC’s Ryan Reilly on 2020, and the road ahead
Hell Gate's Chris Robbins on a manic news cycle in New York
The power of uncomfortable ideas: Jina Moore Ngarambe on her time at Guernica
‘That’s how you run a debate!’: 9News’s Kyle Clark on holding politicians accountable
The long, destructive path of fire: Talking to Source NM’s Patrick Lohmann about a never-ending wildfire season
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