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)
US election 2024: The final days
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Q&A: How influential is Joe Rogan?
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Eric Beecher: Making an enemy of Murdoch
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Q&A: Advice for aspiring editors? Get a backbone!
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Michael Lewis on his critics: “It’s all horseshit”
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Q&A: Is an editor's life just about boozy lunches?
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Esther Solomon: Editing in a war zone
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Q&A: Should social media platforms be legally regulated?
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Justine Roberts: Mumsnet takes on Big Tech
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Q&A: What went wrong at the Evening Standard?
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Tim Snyder: Why a Trump victory is a threat to freedom
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Q&A: How does an in-depth investigation begin?
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Elon Musk: The Man Who Destroyed Twitter
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Q&A: Why does the press hate Prince Harry?
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Rebecca Solnit: ‘Sanewashing’ Trump’s Gibberish
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Q&A: Cummings vs Campbell, who was toughest to deal with?
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Has Musk gone too far?
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Trump and conspiracies: Does the truth even matter now?
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Biden: Is the game up for the President?
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Election 2024: It’s the Sun wot lost it!
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Julian Assange: A landmark moment in press freedom?
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Farage’s Reform: the media’s wife—or its mistress?
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The Washington Post: the chaos continues
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The British are coming! How editors from the UK are conquering the American medi...
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Kara Swisher: How big tech squashed the media
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The Tory TV Channel
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‘Reporting from a horror movie’: Motaz Azaiza and Youmna El Sayed
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Phone hacking: What did Murdoch know?
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The phone hacking scandal: new evidence and fresh claims
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Meloni’s Media Clampdown
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The West Bank according to Gideon Levy: Locked inside a living hell
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Anne Applebaum on Ukraine, the forgotten war
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Israel kicks out Al Jazeera
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The GB News Propaganda Machine
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Counting the casualties of war
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Gary Younge: Dog bites man *is* the story after all
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Trump’s Public Enemy Number One?
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The demise of Vice and BuzzFeed: what happened to millennial media?
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Bonus episode: Should Paul Marshall be allowed to buy the Telegraph?
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Are journalists being targeted in Gaza?
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Ask the Editors: Ofcom, GB News and Biden on TikTok
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Is this the future of local news?
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Is the right-wing media ‘out of control’?
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How the government captured the BBC
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Trump v Biden, Round Two: how to cover the US election
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The Post Office scandal: Toby Jones on his drama’s impact
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The media world in 2024
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Review of the Year with Beth Rigby
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Lynsey Addario: how I took the defining image from Ukraine
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Reporting on Gaza: bravery, brutal facts and the need for context
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