Myanmar Now: How to run a paper in the middle of a coup
Burmese journalist Swe Win has survived an assasination attempt and detention by his own government. Now he leads his Yangon-based news outlet Myanmar Now from exile, and his newsroom is in hiding.On ...
16 Feb 202133min
Kathleen Belew and the white power groundswell
On this week’s Kicker, Kathleen Belew, a historian at the University of Chicago and author of Bring The War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (2018), joins Kyle Pope, editor and ...
5 Feb 202124min
GameStop, Reddit, and who hacked the system
GameStop, Reddit, and who hacked the system by Columbia Journalism Review
29 Jan 202121min
A White House correspondent charts the changing of the guard
Shirish Dáte had a front row seat to the chaos of Trump’s presidency and famously asked Trump whether he regretted having lied so many times to the American people. Dáte was also in attendance at the ...
22 Jan 202125min
What Covid reporters can learn from Hiroshima
In the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, journalists struggled to cover the devastation in a way that resonated, much as they do with the Covid-19 pandemic today. In “Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-u...
19 Jan 202132min
How will Trump’s followers fight for air time?
When Trump gave the go-ahead for his mob to storm the Capitol last week, it manifested more as a media event than an organized political coup. As Trump loses power, his followers doubtless will fight ...
11 Jan 202133min
Five lost lives
Five lost lives by Columbia Journalism Review
21 Dec 202034min
A New York City principal sick with COVID-19 for the second time, and the story the press is missing
Lisa Edmiston, a middle school principal in Queens who is sick for the second time this year, talks to CJR Editor Kyle Pope about urgent inequities within the city’s public schools. The media has devo...
11 Dec 202019min
