Bellingcat founder: ‘Playing whack-a-mole with disinformation is always going to fail’
In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists...
9 Helmi 44min
Bezos, the BBC and reporting the Epstein files
In this week’s episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel discuss the decline of the Washington Post. Has owner Jeff Bezos just lost interest—and is the Post now losing the readers? And, staying i...
5 Helmi 29min
When did climate coverage become part of the culture wars?
In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Bob Ward, policy and communications director of LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.The three d...
2 Helmi 44min
Alex Pretti, ICE and the New York Times
After ICE’s killing of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Alan and Lionel discuss how strong reporting has shed light on what really happened. As the New York Times’s forensic video analysis contradict...
29 Tammi 29min
How to protect the BBC from its enemies
Should the BBC be publicly funded? This week, Alan and Lionel are joined by media researchers and fellows of the British Academy, Georgina Born and Justin Lewis, whose new report on public service med...
26 Tammi 45min
Prince Harry v the tabloids
This week, Alan and Lionel unpack Prince Harry’s ongoing trial against the Daily Mail’s publisher, Associated Newspapers—and the implications for media ethics and privacy.They also discuss US governme...
22 Tammi 38min
Elon Musk vs Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales on why democracy won’t survive without facts
This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel talk to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and the author of The Seven Rules of Trust. They discuss how the online encyclopaedia has evolved to deal wit...
19 Tammi 30min
Liz Truss and the rise of YouTube politics
This week, Lionel tunes in from a cycling trip in South Africa to discuss the baboons he’s encountered on his visit—and in British journalism. Alan reviews Liz Truss’s recently launched YouTube channe...
15 Tammi 33min
