Media Confidential
Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber—two of the world’s greatest editors—dive into the hugely important world of media. What—and who—drives it? What do they get right... And what do they get wrong?Lionel, former editor of the Financial Times, and Alan, editor of Prospect and former editor of the Guardian, will bring you revealing, high profile interviews and in-depth discussion.Media Confidential is produced by Prospect Magazine.Subscribe to Prospect and enjoy our rigorously fact-checked, truly ind...
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Episodes (212)
New hope for the newsroom?
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Q&A: How do you prepare for the death of a Pope?
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Are cartoonists about to be cancelled?
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Q&A: Bezos or Musk–who would you rather be in a rocket with?
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Who owns the media?
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Q&A: How do you spot a story?
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Trump’s tariff-mania: What are journalists missing?
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Q&A: Have you ever felt your life was under threat?
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Is this the most dangerous time to be a journalist?
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Q&A: Signal and the Atlantic defence leak
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Michael Wolff: Cancelled by Trump attacks
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Q&A: How to deal with a conspiracy theory
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John Sawers: ‘The deep state is what keeps us stable’
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Q&A: Has journalism become a commodity?
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Ash Sarkar: ‘Media is politics by other means’
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Q&A: What's the difference between dead cats and real cats?
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How do you solve a problem like gen Z?
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Q&A: Do echo chambers actually exist?
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The Murdoch monarchy: Who will take the crown?
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Q&A: What's the role of journalism in the age of Trump?
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Can you ‘bomb-proof’ the BBC?
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Q&A: How to stay safe in a war zone
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Sam Freedman: “The press lobby’s gone feral!”
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Q&A: How to interview a president
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Norm Pearlstine: “Media is Trump’s cocaine”
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Q&A: Reporting as an act of resistance
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Are UK journalists under state surveillance?
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Saad Mohseni: The tycoon and the Taliban
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Prince Harry wins, Telegraph in Limbo: What next?
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Q&A: The BBC, a broken tape recorder and a fake Meryl Streep
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Armando Iannucci: "X is an industrial piss factory"
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Q&A: When Lionel met Obama and Alan met the queen
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2025: Buckle up! It’s going to be quite a year
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Is assisted dying moral? Rowan Williams and Brenda Hale in conversation
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2024 in review: From Sanewashing to the Observer sale
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Q&A: Will machines replace us?
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AI: Powering newsrooms of the future?
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Q&A: The Daily Mail's sidebar of shame
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The Murdoch Succession and the limits of AI
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Q&A: What's REALLY going on at the Observer?
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AI: how to stop Big Tech ripping off journalism (again)
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Q&A: Lionel’s Wild Ride
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Trump 2.0: Buckle up! It’s going to be wild
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Sayeeda Warsi on the Tories and why ‘Muslims don’t matter’
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Reporting on a burning planet
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Q&A: Michael Lewis, the Observer and asking difficult questions
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Marianna Spring: Truth and the social media scandal
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Q&A: The death of local news
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Exclusive: The Observer's existential crisis
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Q&A: The most embarrassing mistakes of our careers
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