In Reality

By New Thinking

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“In Reality” debunks fake news and elevates the innovative researchers, entrepreneurs, journalists and policymakers who are fighting back against toxic misinformation. Co-hosts Joan Donovan, research director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media and Public Policy, and Eric Schurenberg, an award-winning journalist and former CEO of Fast Company, engage guests in enlightening conversations about solutions to this scourge and the path back to a shared reality. 


Episode Date
12 Years at War Against Misinformation - Renée DiResta. Author of 'Invisible Rulers'
May 01, 2026
The Kinds of Stories that Bridge Political Divides. Melody Mohebi (Democracy 2076) & Brian Waniewski (Harmony Labs)
Apr 16, 2026
You Are Not Thinking As Clearly As You Think - with 'Good Thinking' Author David Robert Grimes
Mar 28, 2026
In Democracy, You Can’t Avoid Conflicts. You Have To Just Do Them Better - Jonathan Stray
Feb 26, 2026
Big Tech VS Euro Regulators - Guess Who's Winning. With John O'Brennan from Maynooth University in Ireland
Jan 22, 2026
A Sheriff for the Digital Wild West with Top Digital Crime Fighter Carole House
Jan 10, 2026
How AI Changes Voters' Minds with Oxford University's Kobi Hackenburg
Dec 10, 2025
We In The Press Could Do A Lot Of Things Better: Steve Peoples Chief Political Writer of The Associated Press
Nov 21, 2025
Without Federal Funding, What is Public Media Really? KCRW President Jennifer Ferro
Oct 30, 2025
Courtney Radsch: Information is an Ecosystem. Without Journalism, It Collapses
Oct 16, 2025
Understanding The Stories That Divide Us with Harmony Labs' Brian Waniewski
Oct 03, 2025
How To Think Clearly About The News In Your Feed with 'Effective Thinking' Expert Michael Starbird
Sep 19, 2025
Politics Without Polarization in Iowa with Governor Candidate Rob Sand (Democrat)
Aug 28, 2025
Signs of Revival In Local News. No, Really! - Indiegraf's Erin Millar
Aug 07, 2025
"What Journalism Needs Now Is Not What Journalists Think" with Richard Gingras (Google & Village Media) and Tom Rosenstiel (UMD)
Jul 24, 2025
AI In The Newsroom: The Humanoid In The Loop with Perplexity AI's Jessica Chan and Troy Thibodeaux from the Associated Press
Jul 11, 2025
Three Top Influencers on Building Trust Amid the Chaos: Kate Bacon, David Pakman, and Eric Newcomer
Jun 26, 2025
How Media Makes Money Today (It's Not Easy) with CEO of The Meteor Cindi Leive
Jun 12, 2025
What Are You Really Seeking When You Click On News? University of Delaware's Prof Dannagal Young
May 22, 2025
First Aid for the Local News Emergency with Local News Accelerator Mackenzie Warren (Northwestern University)
May 08, 2025
If News Is So Important, Why Can't It Make Money? with Historic Media Executive Norman Pearlstine
Apr 30, 2025
The Rise of the Personal Media Brand with Eric Newcomer Founder of the Newcomer Media Outlet
Apr 11, 2025
In Democracy, You Can’t Avoid Conflicts. You Have To Just Do Them Better, with Human-Compatible AI Expert Jonathan Stray
Mar 28, 2025
One Man’s Plan To Rebuild Atlanta’s Hometown Newsroom: The AJC’s President Andrew Morse
Mar 13, 2025
How To Talk With (& Listen To) The Other Side with 'The Fearless Conversationalist' Mónica Guzmán
Feb 27, 2025
The Other AI Arms Race: "Defender" AI vs Deepfakes - Reality Defender CEO Ben Colman
Feb 13, 2025
Why Influencers Have Trust and Journalists Don’t with 'The Future of Trustworthy Information' Author Julia Angwin
Jan 30, 2025
Is Truth Dead? With Co-Founder of NewsGuard Steven Brill
Jan 16, 2025
How To Judge The Truth of Any Claim in 30 Seconds with Top Critical Thinking Expert Mike Caulfield
Jan 02, 2025
Battered But Still Hopeful, The Guardians of a Civil Internet with Integrity Institute's Jeff Allen
Dec 19, 2024
One Way To Win An Information War with The Autocracy Expert Peter Pomerantsev
Dec 05, 2024
How To Stop Worrying and Love Media Bias with AllSides Co-founder John Gable
Nov 21, 2024
In A Less Misinformed World, Would Harris Have Won? With Top Journalists Paul Farhi, Nayeema Raza, and Isaac Saul
Nov 14, 2024
The Most Dishonest Campaign Ever? with Politifact's Katie Sanders
Nov 04, 2024
X, Lies, and Video Fakes in the 2024 Election with Nina Jankowicz and Yoel Roth
Oct 24, 2024
What The Polls Are Really Telling You with Pew Research Center's Jocelyn Kiley
Oct 17, 2024
Media Bias: Left and Right with CNN's Brian Stelter and The Dispatch's Jonah Goldberg
Oct 03, 2024
How Free Societies Decide What's Real with Brookings Institution's Jonathan Rauch
Sep 19, 2024
The Original Fact Checker: How To Know What's True with The Post's Glenn Kessler (Election Repost)
Sep 03, 2024
Is The Rise of MAGA a Failure of Journalism? The University of Texas at Austin's Tom Johnson
Aug 22, 2024
How To Immunize Your Mind Against False Beliefs with Carnegie Mellon University's Andy Norman
Aug 08, 2024
Want to Understand Today’s Political Debate? Study PsyOps: Sci-fi Author & Science Journalist Annalee Newitzs
Jul 23, 2024
Using the Tools of Tech to Hold Big Tech Accountable with Pulitzer-Winner & Proof News Founder Julia Angwin
Jul 09, 2024
The Original Fact Checker: How To Know What's True with The Post's Glenn Kessler
Jun 18, 2024
The Lost Art of Civil Discourse with Clea Conner CEO of Open to Debate
Jun 07, 2024
The Logic Behind Illogical Ideologies: Pepperdine University's Jason Blakely
May 21, 2024
Destroying The Internet In Order To Save It: Project Liberty's Frank McCourt
May 07, 2024
How Newsrooms Decide What's True: Former Editor of the Washington Post Martin Baron
Apr 24, 2024
The Saboteurs Within: University of Michigan's Barbara McQuade
Mar 26, 2024
Why We're Losing the Misinformation War: The Information Futures Lab's Claire Wardle
Mar 12, 2024
Stopping Misinformation At The Gate: News Literacy Project's Peter Adams
Feb 20, 2024
Is News Negativity Driving Audiences Away? The Solutions Journalism Network's David Bornstein
Feb 01, 2024
Who Killed Trust? And What Can We Do About It? The Center for Media Engagement at UT Austin's Talia Stroud
Jan 16, 2024
Digital Disruption and the Myth of Mainstream Media: CEO of Fortune Media Alan Murray
Jan 04, 2024
Can You Make A Profit Fighting Misinfo? NewsGuard's Gordon Crovitz
Dec 18, 2023
Polarization's Ground Zero: Author of 'Network of Lies' Brian Stelter
Dec 05, 2023
How To Know If You Can Trust That Story: The Trust Project's Sally Lehrman
Nov 22, 2023
How Fake History Ignites the Fake Present: Britain's Author of 'Fake History' and 'Fake Heroes' Otto English
Nov 08, 2023
Why Don't The Advocates of Truth Work Together?
Oct 27, 2023
How To Make Advertising An Ally For Truth
Oct 10, 2023
Tech Led Us Into The Misinfo Mess. Can It Lead Us Out?
Sep 26, 2023
What We Really Look For When We Say We're Looking For Truth
Sep 12, 2023
Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson: What To Believe (or not) in the News
Aug 29, 2023
How to Get People to Believe in Science Again
Aug 16, 2023
How to Build Immunity to Viral Misinformation
Aug 01, 2023
Dublin Tech Summit 2023 | What Does Generative AI Mean For The Information Landscape?
Jun 29, 2023
What’s Really Behind the Collapse of Trust in the Media
Jun 06, 2023
Why Are Some Beliefs so Maddeningly Resistant to Evidence?
May 16, 2023
What if AI Could Literally Read Your Mind?
Apr 25, 2023
Why Good People Share Fake News — And How To Make Them Stop
Apr 04, 2023
Why Polarization Turns Toxic - And How To Stop It
Mar 22, 2023
The Lonely Pursuit of Facts in a Post-Truth World
Mar 09, 2023
Truth Decay: The Cause and The Treatment
Feb 23, 2023
Why News Stopped Being “Just The Facts” (And Why That’s Good)
Jan 31, 2023
The Week the Trolls Stormed Homeland Security
Jan 11, 2023
Have We Been Wrong about What the Other Side Thinks?
Dec 09, 2022
The Real Reason Social Media Grabs Us
Dec 01, 2022
Defending Factuality in a World of Alternate Realities
Nov 17, 2022
How to Market Chaos
Nov 03, 2022
The Hidden World of Political Cults
Oct 18, 2022
What if Polarization is Actually an Illusion?
Sep 27, 2022
Dismantling the Disinformation Economy
Sep 07, 2022
How Cambridge Analytica Opened the Pandora’s Box of Disinformation
Aug 22, 2022
Combatting Domestic Terrorism with Melanie Smith
Aug 03, 2022
The elite’s blind spots and the illusion of truth with Gillian Tett
Jul 20, 2022
On the front lines of the disinformation fight with Áine Kerr
Jun 30, 2022
How to Build True Public Spaces Online with Eli Pariser
Jun 14, 2022
Truth and Trade-offs amid a Polarized Pandemic with Dr Leana Wen
May 31, 2022
How We Know What’s True with Jonathan Rauch
May 18, 2022
A new definition of making America great again with Kathleen Belew
May 03, 2022
From optimism to doubt (and back) at Facebook with Joaquin Quiñonero Candela
Apr 19, 2022
The reboot that can save social media with Rob Reich
Apr 05, 2022