The Kicker
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)
Time to rethink the media’s Trump coverage?
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“It is, I promise, worse than you think”
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Breaking down CNN's Reddit fiasco
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What are "women's publications" for?
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The journalist and the arms dealer
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Megyn Kelly gets trolled
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How the Comey/Russia story is playing outside the media bubble
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The end of the public editor era at The New York Times
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The media’s model for covering terrorist attacks is broken
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A week inside the pro-Trump parallel media universe
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BuzzFeed News and the 'Upside Down' media
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Bret Stephens and the role of columnists
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A third generation of 'conservative' media?
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Facebook's worst-case scenario
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Addicted to war porn
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Reckoning with Facebook’s dominance, and CNN's Tanzina Vega on race & inequality
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Is the podcast boom good for journalism?
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Trump strains the news/opinion divide
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Breaking News (a collaboration with BBC World Service)
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A Breitbart editor walks into a journalism conference...
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Trump's media attacks are getting boring
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Spice, Spice baby
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The Jake Tapper-Kellyanne Conway showdown
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Objectivity and Trump's refugee ban
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Avoiding Trump's trap with "alternative facts"
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The ethics of BuzzFeed's decision to publish Trump-Russia memos
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Fox News and life after Megyn Kelly
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Looking back on a tumultuous year in journalism
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Richard Deitsch on the state of sports media
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Thomas Jefferson on fake news
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Michael Rosenwald on the enduring primacy of print
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Emily Bell on Facebook and fake news
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What we're thankful for in journalism this Thanksgiving
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Fake news and Trump's trashing of political norms
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