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The Kicker — 328 episodes · page 3 of 4
Jon Allsop on Ukraine, Brexit, and the danger of dumbing down
Rule of fear—Carlotta Gall reports on the war behind the wall
‘The more American your life is, the more vulnerable you become’
Impeachment and how Trump exposed the flaws in journalism
The Financial Times follows the money on the climate crisis
Climate collaboration—three hundred outlets, one billion viewers
One hyperlocal reporter and 400,000 NYCHA residents
Bahamian media and the fight for Hurricane relief
After Reuters—Myanmar’s other reporters
Jeffrey Epstein on background
America does not know what a mass shooting looks like
Blackouts, politics, and the call for a new beat
Bob Garfield’s plan to save America
Fear at the border
MSNBC Public Editor: It will take more than one salvo for Kamala Harris to take down Joe Biden
Four months in, BuzzFeed’s union waits for recognition
Public Editor Emily Tamkin on CNN’s underqualified pundits
When Newsweek flew the Watergate transcripts to New York by “pigeon”
Podcast: As 2020 approaches, ‘orphan counties’ struggle for local, relevant news
Journalist Nick Pinto on the impossibility of covering the NYPD
Journalist Anat Kamm on life after being sentenced for leaking
International press access in Venezuela
Covering the Green New Deal
Pulitzer winner Darrin Bell—‘In a tyrannical kingdom, only the jester can tell the truth’
Podcast: In conversation with 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner Susanne Craig
An editor murdered in Kashmir signals the erosion of press freedom
Podcast: In conversation with Susan Smith Richardson from the Center for Public Integrity
Mueller, Barr, and what journalism can do when the judicial system fails us
Podcast: Clerk who took over for racist Ala. editor speaks
Podcast: Adam Moss and David Haskell on the transfer of power at New York
Podcast: What counts as journalism?
Heather Heyer’s mother: ‘I knew the press was coming’
Podcast: Who is going to pay for journalism?
Getting to the truth in the Trump interview
Podcast: Should governments pay ransom for journalists?
Layoffs and the argument for civic media
Podcast: In conversation with Jill Abramson on her new book, Merchants of Truth
Podcast: Slate charts its survival through the digital winter
Podcast: How did the media handle Trump’s Oval office address?
Podcast: A look back at 2018
The Washington Post starts a daily news podcast in a saturated market
Mathew Ingram on the downfall of digital media
Gisele Regatao on NPR’s accent bias
David Little on putting out a paper during the Paradise fire
Jelani Cobb and Lydia Polgreen on race, politics, and the media
How bad will this get?
Saudi journalists grapple with Khashoggi's death
Brazil’s upcoming elections and the echoes of Trump in 2016
#MeToo reporting, one year after Weinstein
Reporting on Trump’s business past with David Cay Johnston
On Kavanaugh coverage and whether we’ve reached peak podcast
On fallen men and the mystery of Tucker Carlson
On Bob Woodward’s sources and journalism in Iraq
Woodward on Trump; press crackdowns in Myanmar
Covering John McCain’s death and the politics of ESPN
Emily Bell on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s press ban & Jack Dorsey’s press tour
Were all the free press editorials worth it?
Perils of the internet, from Alex Jones’s ban to Sarah Jeong’s tweets
Facebook sets its own narrative. Plus, press hatred flares at Trump rallies
The local news death spiral. Plus, the Cohen–Trump tapes.
A new era for the press after Helsinki?
Breaking down coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory
How media pressure forced Trump’s hand on border policy
Platforms and publishers
Let’s talk about class and journalism
Taking the buyout
Can the marriage between Facebook and journalism be saved?
A unified campaign against Alden Global Capital
Rukmini Callimachi on covering ISIS
A Tale of Two Tariffs
The Zuckerberg Chronicles
CNN’s Nima Elbagir on her investigation into Libya's slave trade
Is journalism a form of activism?
Paul Ford on the intersection of blockchain and journalism
Kim Masters on #MeToo coverage; Susan Orlean on finding stories
A new generation of native voices
The Facebook Armageddon
Women in the workplace
Threats to journalism
The Twitter bot economy
Slate’s ‘pivot to words’
Untangling the Facebook mess
Reddit, Michael Wolff, and “media men” list
The year in journalism
The popularity of "Cat Person"
Jezebel’s new EIC on feminist reporting after Weinstein
A dive into the swamp with Politico Playbook’s Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman
Anti-establishment media in the Trump era
Turning the lens on whiteness when covering race
Jelani Cobb on one year of Trump
The evolution of audio, Facebook’s political reckoning, and civil war at the WSJ
Does Weinstein represent a sea change or just a moment?
From climate change to Facebook
Harvey Weinstein and the media's complicated relationship
Covering the White House with Glenn Thrush & Ben Jacobs
Fake news in a small town
Covering race and racism after Charlottesville
Combat reporting from the field to the home front
Preparing for the worst when covering disasters
Podcast: Hurricane Harvey