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.
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Episodes (654)
Climate collaboration—three hundred outlets, one billion viewers
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Sep 20, 201919:52pending
One hyperlocal reporter and 400,000 NYCHA residents
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Sep 13, 201919:27pending
Bahamian media and the fight for Hurricane relief
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Sep 5, 201919:30pending
After Reuters—Myanmar’s other reporters
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Aug 22, 201916:32pending
Jeffrey Epstein on background
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Aug 15, 201929:13pending
America does not know what a mass shooting looks like
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Aug 9, 201922:51pending
Blackouts, politics, and the call for a new beat
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Jul 26, 201913:49pending
Bob Garfield’s plan to save America
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Jul 18, 201922:40pending
Fear at the border
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Jul 11, 201917:40pending
MSNBC Public Editor: It will take more than one salvo for Kamala Harris to take...
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Jul 1, 201919:52pending
Four months in, BuzzFeed’s union waits for recognition
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Jun 20, 201918:29pending
Public Editor Emily Tamkin on CNN’s underqualified pundits
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Jun 13, 201918:27pending
When Newsweek flew the Watergate transcripts to New York by “pigeon”
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Jun 6, 201923:40pending
Podcast: As 2020 approaches, ‘orphan counties’ struggle for local, relevant news
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May 30, 201911:17pending
Journalist Nick Pinto on the impossibility of covering the NYPD
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May 23, 201917:48pending
Journalist Anat Kamm on life after being sentenced for leaking
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May 16, 201921:54pending
International press access in Venezuela
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May 9, 201918:46pending
Covering the Green New Deal
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May 2, 201921:31pending
Pulitzer winner Darrin Bell—‘In a tyrannical kingdom, only the jester can tell t...
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Apr 25, 201919:48pending
Podcast: In conversation with 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner Susanne Craig
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Apr 18, 201919:45pending
An editor murdered in Kashmir signals the erosion of press freedom
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Apr 11, 201921:13pending
Podcast: In conversation with Susan Smith Richardson from the Center for Public...
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Apr 4, 201919:23pending
Mueller, Barr, and what journalism can do when the judicial system fails us
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Mar 28, 201918:09pending
Podcast: Clerk who took over for racist Ala. editor speaks
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Mar 21, 201916:07pending
Podcast: Adam Moss and David Haskell on the transfer of power at New York
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Mar 14, 201924:36pending
Podcast: What counts as journalism?
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Mar 7, 201915:15pending
Heather Heyer’s mother: ‘I knew the press was coming’
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Feb 28, 201919:47pending
Podcast: Who is going to pay for journalism?
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Feb 21, 201922:11pending
Getting to the truth in the Trump interview
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Feb 14, 201920:52pending
Podcast: Should governments pay ransom for journalists?
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Feb 7, 201919:20pending
Layoffs and the argument for civic media
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Jan 31, 201920:42pending
Podcast: In conversation with Jill Abramson on her new book, Merchants of Truth
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Jan 24, 201922:29pending
Podcast: Slate charts its survival through the digital winter
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Jan 17, 201917:13pending
Podcast: How did the media handle Trump’s Oval office address?
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Jan 10, 201921:55pending
Podcast: A look back at 2018
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Dec 20, 201829:09pending
The Washington Post starts a daily news podcast in a saturated market
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Dec 13, 201816:44pending
Mathew Ingram on the downfall of digital media
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Dec 7, 201820:35pending
Gisele Regatao on NPR’s accent bias
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Nov 29, 201815:24pending
David Little on putting out a paper during the Paradise fire
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Nov 15, 201817:10pending
Jelani Cobb and Lydia Polgreen on race, politics, and the media
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Nov 8, 201820:46pending
How bad will this get?
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Nov 1, 201820:57pending
Saudi journalists grapple with Khashoggi's death
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Oct 26, 201812:49pending
Brazil’s upcoming elections and the echoes of Trump in 2016
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Oct 19, 201814:55pending
#MeToo reporting, one year after Weinstein
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Oct 11, 201828:10pending
Reporting on Trump’s business past with David Cay Johnston
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Oct 4, 201830:14pending
On Kavanaugh coverage and whether we’ve reached peak podcast
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Sep 27, 201825:50pending
On fallen men and the mystery of Tucker Carlson
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Sep 20, 201834:26pending
On Bob Woodward’s sources and journalism in Iraq
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Sep 13, 201822:45pending
Woodward on Trump; press crackdowns in Myanmar
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Sep 6, 201825:42pending
Covering John McCain’s death and the politics of ESPN
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Aug 30, 201818:20pending
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