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The Kicker — 329 episodes

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Sports Illustrated’s Emma Baccellieri on covering the changing world of women’s basketball.

2

How Documented is reinventing immigration coverage.

3

The Old Playbook of Power and Influence Is Different Now

4

The Globe’s Emily Sweeney breaks out of Boston.

5

How Elon Musk is colonizing the future.

6

Taking Back Saturday: “We’re sports people. We like to score.”

7

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

8

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

9

Lessons from an Early-Career Journalist

10

A Look Back at Covering Gaza for the Post

11

Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future

12

The Letter of the Law, and the Law in Practice

13

Outlier Media Reimagines What Local News Can Be

14

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

15

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

16

Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth

17

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

18

Jay Rosen on the Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

19

Ben Smith Isn’t Afraid of the Future

20

How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs

21

The Future of Journalism After Gaza

22

Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros

23

Journalism 2050 - Trailer

24

Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics

25

Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?

30

What’s the Matter with the BBC?

31

The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up

32

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

33

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

34

What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?

35

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

36

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

37

Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network

38

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

39

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

40

Molly White Knows You Don’t Understand Crypto

41

The Legal War on Journalism

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

Coming Soon: The Unraveling of Ozy Media

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

1968 all over again? Heather Hendershot and Ted Koppel on a year for the media to remember.

58

Kamala Harris steps up: Politico’s Eugene Daniels on a wild month of news

59

Spanish-speaking journalism…in Iowa: A conversation with Lorena Lopez

60

What did we know and when? Alex Thompson on investigating Biden’s mental decline

61

Not even a ‘no comment’: Paul Farhi on the media’s historic struggles with relevance

62

Staying “scrupulously neutral”: Steve Herman on covering the White House in the age of Trump

63

How Israeli Journalists Cover Their Own Country

64

Crisis at Columbia: A Conversation with Jelani Cobb

65

'Inside Wagner': Video journalism unmasks Russia’s secretive mercenary group

66

Josh Fine: How to Revive Investigative Sports Reporting in the Age of the Athlete

67

Alissa Quart: on reimagining reporting on a recession

68

Svitlana Oslavska: On Documenting a War on Her Home Front

69

How Authoritarians Erase the Past

70

Hearts and Minds Media

71

Feven Merid: On Jacaranda Nigeria Limited

72

Jeff Gerth on the press versus the president

73

FT's Rana Foroohar: What the Davos Crowd Doesn't See

74

Jon Allsop Returns. Plus, What We’re Watching in 2023

75

The Tow Center’s Emily Bell: Musk’s Twitter is “openly hostile” to journalists. What should we do?

76

Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast

77

The Guardian’s David Smith: Covering a new chapter of Trump

78

Ross Barkan’s Notes on Election Coverage: Form, Function, and the Future

79

Bill Keller: On covering the ‘freedom’ beat – prisons and Russia

80

Nic Haque on Climate Change: 'I became a journalist because of this.'

81

Nothing to It: How John Bennet went from East Texas kid to New Yorker editor

82

Rebecca Traister: Abortion, a case study in media disinterest

83

Justin Worland: Raising diverse voices on the climate crisis beat

84

Nina Totenberg: ‘They don’t have to follow Supreme Court precedent anymore’

85

Columbia’s Jelani Cobb: ‘Everything is on the table’

86

Elena Kostyuchenko: 'The Russian secret services somehow knew'

87

Dean Baquet & Joe Kahn: What’s next for the New York Times?

88

Al Roker: The weather paradigm shift

89

Jane Lytvynenko: Ukraine’s great ‘prebunk’

90

Eleanor Beardsley & Igor Kossov: The road out of Ukraine

91

Stuart Karle: Money and the politicization of press freedom

92

Eleanor Beardsley: Putin and Biden summon the Cold War

93

George Packer: A dishonorable ending in Afghanistan

94

Tonga: Not for sale

95

Russia, Ukraine, and the front lines of information warfare

96

The Chicago ed beat: Why do politicians fight back when teachers want to feel safe?

97

Julie K. Brown, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, and coverage of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial

98

Twitter on a tightrope

99

Ian Urbina on Libya, the Outlaw Ocean Project, and the rules of engagement

100

Deep on the Steele beat: Erik Wemple & Marcy Wheeler

101

COP26: Who do we edit out of the climate crisis?

102

What does the Facebook data dump mean?

103

On the trail of ‘pink slime’

104

Balls and Strikes: How to cover the Supreme Court’s “super-majority”

105

Jon Allsop on Mehdi Hasan’s transatlantic rise

106

The Wall Street Journal’s stubborn conservatism

107

Larry Fink: Vulgarity and Anna Wintour’s Met Gala

108

September 11: “Inflection Point”

109

How We Got Here: Genders and Sexualities, host Prof. Alisa Solomon

110

How We Got Here: Unwelcome to America, host Prof. Nina Alvarez

111

How We Got Here: Class, host Prof. Dale Maharidge

112

How We Got Here: Empire, host Prof. Sheila Coronel

113

How We Got Here: Whiteness, host Prof. Samuel G. Freedman

114

How We Got Here: The Half-Life of Democracy, host Prof. Jelani Cobb

115

How We Got Here: Trailer

116

Special Report: Inside the toxic mediasphere of Black exceptionalism

117

Nikole Hannah-Jones on the use of power

118

Errol Louis: Inside City Hall for the New York City primaries

119

Carole Cadwalladr, Covid-19, and the fight against collective amnesia

120

The Tokyo Olympics, Naomi Osaka, and the death of sports access

121

Alden and Tribune: ‘A crash course in capitalism’

122

How to cover abortion

123

The view from Tel Aviv

124

Special Report: Post-truth and the press

125

Jessica Bruder talks Nomadland

126

Special Report: Digital journalism didn’t have to be this way

127

Special Report: The Pirate Radio Capital

128

‘Survival and science’—our fight against climate silence

129

‘Violence bait’ —the narrative the Twin Cities tried to build in the mainstream press

130

Jelani Cobb on the murder of Daunte Wright, the Derek Chauvin trial, and how to tell the whole story

131

“They forget about you:” The media advice Parkland parents give to mass shooting survivors

132

America does not know what a mass shooting looks like

133

Racism, Atlanta, and the race for a narrative

134

Pandemic: Why is it so hard to say there’s hope?

135

Toxic: A break in the Cuomo fever dream

136

Michael Tubbs on the politics of disinformation, racism, and news deserts

137

Myanmar Now: How to run a paper in the middle of a coup

138

Kathleen Belew and the white power groundswell

139

GameStop, Reddit, and who hacked the system

140

A White House correspondent charts the changing of the guard

141

What Covid reporters can learn from Hiroshima

142

How will Trump’s followers fight for air time?

143

Five lost lives

144

A New York City principal sick with COVID-19 for the second time, and the story the press is missing

145

Can unions make newsrooms inclusive?

146

New vaccines, same story

147

Public Editors: Why even good reporting no longer impacts the vote

148

Masha Gessen on Trump's bid for autocracy

149

David Remnick and the View from Trump’s Fifth Avenue

150

Election 2020 — Why the idea of a return to normal is so dangerous

151

E Jean Carroll puts Trump’s survivors in charge

152

Physicians on the air

153

COVID at the White House, voter disinformation, and how to report around the propaganda

154

What was the Notorious RBG like as a source?

155

“Eugenics” in Georgia

156

We were all raised here: Rochester, Daniel Prude, and a terrible breach of trust

157

“Like shooting a gun in the dark” — a New York City principal and the education beat

158

When did we separate politics and the mail?

159

How to cover an election that isn’t there

160

Stephen Sackur and Interviewing Trump

161

Imagining a new world

162

Great escape: Nicholson Baker lets YouTube take the wheel

163

Why police defunding is not an election story

164

Ed Yong on COVID-19 and American fatalism

165

Imperfect victims: Mental illness & police brutality

166

Wesley Morris—Four hundred years in one line of music

167

Black deaths, Black protest

168

MSNBC’s identity crisis

169

Indian Country: Behind the monolith

170

A break from the pandemic: the bizarre invasion of Venezuela

171

How did medical masks become a signal?

172

The hunger for COVID-19 and climate crisis coverage

173

Liz Bruenig on covering spirituality and death in a plague year

174

Prisoners trapped in the path of COVID-19

175

A visit to an ER COVID-19 unit gives new perspective on pandemic data

176

COVID-19, communities in need

177

Local media and COVID-19: the canary in the coalmine

178

When the circus comes to town: The Storm Lake Times in Iowa

179

A war correspondent covers the climate crisis

180

Family leave and the diversity edge

181

Coronavirus, China’s press, and the disappearance of Chen Quishi

182

Keeping the faith

183

Guns, Puerto Rico, & American labor

184

Dexter Filkins and how to cover the Soleimani assasination

185

Carole Cadwalladr and disinformation at the ballot box

186

When facts can’t help

187

Brazil’s gold boom and the war for the rainforest, with Jon Lee Anderson

188

The death penalty—myth, propaganda, and truth

189

CJR public editors: One year out from 2020

190

Can Condé Nast’s empire rise again?

191

Jon Allsop on Ukraine, Brexit, and the danger of dumbing down

192

Rule of fear—Carlotta Gall reports on the war behind the wall

193

‘The more American your life is, the more vulnerable you become’

194

Impeachment and how Trump exposed the flaws in journalism

195

The Financial Times follows the money on the climate crisis

196

Climate collaboration—three hundred outlets, one billion viewers

197

One hyperlocal reporter and 400,000 NYCHA residents

198

Bahamian media and the fight for Hurricane relief

199

After Reuters—Myanmar’s other reporters

200

Jeffrey Epstein on background

201

America does not know what a mass shooting looks like

202

Blackouts, politics, and the call for a new beat

203

Bob Garfield’s plan to save America

204

Fear at the border

205

MSNBC Public Editor: It will take more than one salvo for Kamala Harris to take down Joe Biden

206

Four months in, BuzzFeed’s union waits for recognition

207

Public Editor Emily Tamkin on CNN’s underqualified pundits

208

When Newsweek flew the Watergate transcripts to New York by “pigeon”

209

Podcast: As 2020 approaches, ‘orphan counties’ struggle for local, relevant news

210

Journalist Nick Pinto on the impossibility of covering the NYPD

211

Journalist Anat Kamm on life after being sentenced for leaking

212

International press access in Venezuela

213

Covering the Green New Deal

214

Pulitzer winner Darrin Bell—‘In a tyrannical kingdom, only the jester can tell the truth’

215

Podcast: In conversation with 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner Susanne Craig

216

An editor murdered in Kashmir signals the erosion of press freedom

217

Podcast: In conversation with Susan Smith Richardson from the Center for Public Integrity

218

Mueller, Barr, and what journalism can do when the judicial system fails us

219

Podcast: Clerk who took over for racist Ala. editor speaks

220

Podcast: Adam Moss and David Haskell on the transfer of power at New York

221

Podcast: What counts as journalism?

222

Heather Heyer’s mother: ‘I knew the press was coming’

223

Podcast: Who is going to pay for journalism?

224

Getting to the truth in the Trump interview

225

Podcast: Should governments pay ransom for journalists?

226

Layoffs and the argument for civic media

227

Podcast: In conversation with Jill Abramson on her new book, Merchants of Truth

228

Podcast: Slate charts its survival through the digital winter

229

Podcast: How did the media handle Trump’s Oval office address?

230

Podcast: A look back at 2018

231

The Washington Post starts a daily news podcast in a saturated market

232

Mathew Ingram on the downfall of digital media

233

Gisele Regatao on NPR’s accent bias

234

David Little on putting out a paper during the Paradise fire

235

Jelani Cobb and Lydia Polgreen on race, politics, and the media

236

How bad will this get?

237

Saudi journalists grapple with Khashoggi's death

238

Brazil’s upcoming elections and the echoes of Trump in 2016

239

#MeToo reporting, one year after Weinstein

240

Reporting on Trump’s business past with David Cay Johnston

241

On Kavanaugh coverage and whether we’ve reached peak podcast

242

On fallen men and the mystery of Tucker Carlson

243

On Bob Woodward’s sources and journalism in Iraq

244

Woodward on Trump; press crackdowns in Myanmar

245

Covering John McCain’s death and the politics of ESPN

246

Emily Bell on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s press ban & Jack Dorsey’s press tour

247

Were all the free press editorials worth it?

248

Perils of the internet, from Alex Jones’s ban to Sarah Jeong’s tweets

249

Facebook sets its own narrative. Plus, press hatred flares at Trump rallies

250

The local news death spiral. Plus, the Cohen–Trump tapes.

251

A new era for the press after Helsinki?

252

Breaking down coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory

253

How media pressure forced Trump’s hand on border policy

254

Platforms and publishers

255

Let’s talk about class and journalism

256

Taking the buyout

257

Can the marriage between Facebook and journalism be saved?

258

A unified campaign against Alden Global Capital

259

Rukmini Callimachi on covering ISIS

260

A Tale of Two Tariffs

261

The Zuckerberg Chronicles

262

CNN’s Nima Elbagir on her investigation into Libya's slave trade

263

Is journalism a form of activism?

264

Paul Ford on the intersection of blockchain and journalism

265

Kim Masters on #MeToo coverage; Susan Orlean on finding stories

266

A new generation of native voices

267

The Facebook Armageddon

268

Women in the workplace

269

Threats to journalism

270

The Twitter bot economy

271

Slate’s ‘pivot to words’

272

Untangling the Facebook mess

273

Reddit, Michael Wolff, and “media men” list

274

The year in journalism

275

The popularity of "Cat Person"

276

Jezebel’s new EIC on feminist reporting after Weinstein

277

A dive into the swamp with Politico Playbook’s Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman

278

Anti-establishment media in the Trump era

279

Turning the lens on whiteness when covering race

280

Jelani Cobb on one year of Trump

281

The evolution of audio, Facebook’s political reckoning, and civil war at the WSJ

282

Does Weinstein represent a sea change or just a moment?

283

From climate change to Facebook

284

Harvey Weinstein and the media's complicated relationship

285

Covering the White House with Glenn Thrush & Ben Jacobs

286

Fake news in a small town

287

Covering race and racism after Charlottesville

288

Combat reporting from the field to the home front

289

Preparing for the worst when covering disasters

290

Podcast: Hurricane Harvey

291

The white supremacy beat

292

The media responds to Charlottesville

293

Podcast: Venezuela in crisis

294

Podcast: Tabloids in the age of Trump

295

The media is bad at covering drugs

296

Time to rethink the media’s Trump coverage?

297

“It is, I promise, worse than you think”

298

Breaking down CNN's Reddit fiasco

299

What are "women's publications" for?

300

The journalist and the arms dealer

301

Megyn Kelly gets trolled

302

How the Comey/Russia story is playing outside the media bubble

303

The end of the public editor era at The New York Times

304

The media’s model for covering terrorist attacks is broken

305

A week inside the pro-Trump parallel media universe

306

BuzzFeed News and the 'Upside Down' media

307

Bret Stephens and the role of columnists

308

A third generation of 'conservative' media?

309

Facebook's worst-case scenario

310

Addicted to war porn

311

Reckoning with Facebook’s dominance, and CNN's Tanzina Vega on race & inequality

312

Is the podcast boom good for journalism?

313

Trump strains the news/opinion divide

314

Breaking News (a collaboration with BBC World Service)

315

A Breitbart editor walks into a journalism conference...

316

Trump's media attacks are getting boring

317

Spice, Spice baby

318

The Jake Tapper-Kellyanne Conway showdown

319

Objectivity and Trump's refugee ban

320

Avoiding Trump's trap with "alternative facts"

321

The ethics of BuzzFeed's decision to publish Trump-Russia memos

322

Fox News and life after Megyn Kelly

323

Looking back on a tumultuous year in journalism

324

Richard Deitsch on the state of sports media

325

Thomas Jefferson on fake news

326

Michael Rosenwald on the enduring primacy of print

327

Emily Bell on Facebook and fake news

328

What we're thankful for in journalism this Thanksgiving

329

Fake news and Trump's trashing of political norms