Sophia Smith Galer: How to make the truth go viral
In the age of TikTok, how can newsrooms earn attention?Alan and Lionel are joined by Sophia Smith Galer, digital journalist, author and founder of Viralect. Sophia shares why TikTok shouldn’t be under...
10 Juli 202541min
Q&A: Should the BBC have a paywall in the USA?
In this week’s Q&A, the hosts weigh in on the BBC bringing in paid services for across the pond.They also discuss Anna Wintour stepping down from Vogue...or is she?Plus, after a court found that the B...
7 Juli 202517min
Only in Denmark? Meet the ‘existential editor’ covering life, death, love and everything in between
This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Line Vaaben, who is ‘existential editor’ at Danish newspaper Politiken.Line and her team write stories that explore the complexities of l...
3 Juli 202543min
Q&A: What makes a good reporter?
This week, Alan and Lionel discuss every editor’s nightmare: what do you do if news breaks just as the papers have gone to print?They also explain “pyjama injunctions”, and are asked about whether the...
30 Juni 202529min
Scaramucci on Trump: ‘He’s going to tell 10,000 lies this year as president’
This week’s guest on Media Confidential is Anthony Scaramucci, financier and former communications director at the White House. He now co-hosts The Rest is Politics US podcast.Anthony argues that the ...
26 Juni 202559min
Q&A: Where do you get your information about the Middle East?
In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel are asked where they go for analysis of the situation in the Middle East, including the Israel-Iran war. They also discuss diversity in journalism and how cuts have...
23 Juni 202523min
Substack’s co-founder: Elon Musk ‘saw it as a declaration of war’
This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack.The platform, which now has over five million paid subscriptions, allows writers to self-publish ...
19 Juni 202543min
Q&A: How do you help the BBC?
In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel discuss a media screw up: who’s to blame for the Telegraph publishing a fake story about the fictional “Al Moy” and his family?They break down how editors should de...
16 Juni 202523min
