The Kicker
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The Kicker is a podcast on the media and the world today. It comes out twice a month, hosted by Josh Hersh and produced by Amanda Darrach for the Columbia Journalism Review. It is available wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Episodes (654)
The Chicago ed beat: Why do politicians fight back when teachers want to feel sa...
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Jan 14, 202221:20pending
Julie K. Brown, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, and coverage of the Ghislaine Maxwell tri...
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Jan 7, 202237:14pending
Twitter on a tightrope
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Dec 13, 202123:52pending
Ian Urbina on Libya, the Outlaw Ocean Project, and the rules of engagement
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Dec 3, 202130:10pending
Deep on the Steele beat: Erik Wemple & Marcy Wheeler
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Nov 19, 202129:02pending
COP26: Who do we edit out of the climate crisis?
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Nov 12, 202128:19pending
What does the Facebook data dump mean?
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Nov 1, 202136:13pending
On the trail of ‘pink slime’
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Oct 22, 202118:38pending
Balls and Strikes: How to cover the Supreme Court’s “super-majority”
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Oct 8, 202120:38pending
Jon Allsop on Mehdi Hasan’s transatlantic rise
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Oct 1, 202118:06pending
The Wall Street Journal’s stubborn conservatism
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Sep 24, 202123:04pending
Larry Fink: Vulgarity and Anna Wintour’s Met Gala
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Sep 20, 202126:49pending
September 11: “Inflection Point”
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Sep 14, 202134:48pending
How We Got Here: Genders and Sexualities, host Prof. Alisa Solomon
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Sep 3, 202151:13pending
How We Got Here: Unwelcome to America, host Prof. Nina Alvarez
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Aug 27, 202153:21pending
How We Got Here: Class, host Prof. Dale Maharidge
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Aug 20, 202144:54pending
How We Got Here: Empire, host Prof. Sheila Coronel
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Aug 13, 202158:45pending
How We Got Here: Whiteness, host Prof. Samuel G. Freedman
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Aug 3, 202156:18pending
How We Got Here: The Half-Life of Democracy, host Prof. Jelani Cobb
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Aug 3, 202146:14pending
How We Got Here: Trailer
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Aug 3, 20212:09pending
Special Report: Inside the toxic mediasphere of Black exceptionalism
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Jul 16, 202125:32pending
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the use of power
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Jul 12, 202127:44pending
Errol Louis: Inside City Hall for the New York City primaries
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Jun 25, 202113:41pending
Carole Cadwalladr, Covid-19, and the fight against collective amnesia
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Jun 14, 202126:16pending
The Tokyo Olympics, Naomi Osaka, and the death of sports access
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Jun 4, 202118:57pending
Alden and Tribune: ‘A crash course in capitalism’
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May 27, 202123:10pending
How to cover abortion
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May 21, 202126:53pending
The view from Tel Aviv
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May 14, 202120:30pending
Special Report: Post-truth and the press
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May 7, 202136:42pending
Jessica Bruder talks Nomadland
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May 7, 202122:26pending
Special Report: Digital journalism didn’t have to be this way
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May 5, 202136:17pending
Special Report: The Pirate Radio Capital
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May 4, 202133:24pending
‘Survival and science’—our fight against climate silence
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Apr 30, 202125:54pending
‘Violence bait’ —the narrative the Twin Cities tried to build in the mainstream...
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Apr 26, 202126:42pending
Jelani Cobb on the murder of Daunte Wright, the Derek Chauvin trial, and how to...
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Apr 16, 202116:01pending
“They forget about you:” The media advice Parkland parents give to mass shooting...
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Apr 2, 202126:34pending
America does not know what a mass shooting looks like
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Mar 25, 202123:58pending
Racism, Atlanta, and the race for a narrative
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Mar 19, 202133:01pending
Pandemic: Why is it so hard to say there’s hope?
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Mar 15, 202122:58pending
Toxic: A break in the Cuomo fever dream
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Mar 5, 202128:12pending
Michael Tubbs on the politics of disinformation, racism, and news deserts
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Feb 26, 202122:48pending
Myanmar Now: How to run a paper in the middle of a coup
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Feb 16, 202133:03pending
Kathleen Belew and the white power groundswell
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Feb 5, 202124:53pending
GameStop, Reddit, and who hacked the system
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Jan 29, 202121:47pending
A White House correspondent charts the changing of the guard
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Jan 22, 202125:44pending
What Covid reporters can learn from Hiroshima
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Jan 19, 202132:32pending
How will Trump’s followers fight for air time?
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Jan 11, 202133:49pending
Five lost lives
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Dec 21, 202034:58pending
A New York City principal sick with COVID-19 for the second time, and the story...
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Dec 11, 202019:20pending
Can unions make newsrooms inclusive?
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Dec 4, 202032:38pending
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