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)
New vaccines, same story
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Nov 20, 202026:06pending
Public Editors: Why even good reporting no longer impacts the vote
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Nov 13, 202033:17pending
Masha Gessen on Trump's bid for autocracy
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Nov 6, 202024:37pending
David Remnick and the View from Trump’s Fifth Avenue
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Oct 30, 202028:40pending
Election 2020 — Why the idea of a return to normal is so dangerous
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Oct 23, 202032:27pending
E Jean Carroll puts Trump’s survivors in charge
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Oct 16, 202025:02pending
Physicians on the air
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Oct 9, 202027:39pending
COVID at the White House, voter disinformation, and how to report around the pro...
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Oct 2, 202025:19pending
What was the Notorious RBG like as a source?
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Sep 25, 202023:23pending
“Eugenics” in Georgia
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Sep 18, 202021:17pending
We were all raised here: Rochester, Daniel Prude, and a terrible breach of trust
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Sep 11, 202025:04pending
“Like shooting a gun in the dark” — a New York City principal and the education...
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Aug 28, 202022:25pending
When did we separate politics and the mail?
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Aug 21, 202025:59pending
How to cover an election that isn’t there
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Aug 14, 202023:16pending
Stephen Sackur and Interviewing Trump
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Aug 7, 202027:08pending
Imagining a new world
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Jul 17, 202037:52pending
Great escape: Nicholson Baker lets YouTube take the wheel
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Jul 10, 202035:04pending
Why police defunding is not an election story
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Jul 3, 202030:25pending
Ed Yong on COVID-19 and American fatalism
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Jun 26, 202029:36pending
Imperfect victims: Mental illness & police brutality
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Jun 19, 202023:45pending
Wesley Morris—Four hundred years in one line of music
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Jun 8, 202042:55pending
Black deaths, Black protest
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May 29, 202020:01pending
MSNBC’s identity crisis
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May 22, 202021:13pending
Indian Country: Behind the monolith
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May 15, 202022:09pending
A break from the pandemic: the bizarre invasion of Venezuela
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May 8, 202024:36pending
How did medical masks become a signal?
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May 1, 202027:28pending
The hunger for COVID-19 and climate crisis coverage
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Apr 24, 202020:13pending
Liz Bruenig on covering spirituality and death in a plague year
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Apr 17, 202018:03pending
Prisoners trapped in the path of COVID-19
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Apr 10, 202020:40pending
A visit to an ER COVID-19 unit gives new perspective on pandemic data
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Apr 3, 202014:44pending
COVID-19, communities in need
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Mar 26, 202016:42pending
Local media and COVID-19: the canary in the coalmine
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Mar 12, 202023:26pending
When the circus comes to town: The Storm Lake Times in Iowa
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Mar 5, 202022:07pending
A war correspondent covers the climate crisis
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Feb 28, 202019:57pending
Family leave and the diversity edge
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Feb 20, 202015:41pending
Coronavirus, China’s press, and the disappearance of Chen Quishi
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Feb 13, 202019:33pending
Keeping the faith
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Feb 6, 202029:24pending
Guns, Puerto Rico, & American labor
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Jan 21, 202027:44pending
Dexter Filkins and how to cover the Soleimani assasination
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Jan 10, 202015:17pending
Carole Cadwalladr and disinformation at the ballot box
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Dec 13, 201926:17pending
When facts can’t help
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Dec 6, 201926:16pending
Brazil’s gold boom and the war for the rainforest, with Jon Lee Anderson
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Nov 22, 201917:46pending
The death penalty—myth, propaganda, and truth
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Nov 15, 201920:43pending
CJR public editors: One year out from 2020
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Nov 8, 201932:18pending
Can Condé Nast’s empire rise again?
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Nov 1, 201919:47pending
Jon Allsop on Ukraine, Brexit, and the danger of dumbing down
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Oct 25, 201924:08pending
Rule of fear—Carlotta Gall reports on the war behind the wall
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Oct 18, 201926:17pending
‘The more American your life is, the more vulnerable you become’
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Oct 11, 201916:37pending
Impeachment and how Trump exposed the flaws in journalism
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Oct 4, 201926:42pending
The Financial Times follows the money on the climate crisis
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Sep 26, 201915:14pending
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