Media Confidential
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Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber—two of the world’s greatest editors—dive into the hugely important world of media. What—and who—drives it? What do they get right... And what do they get wrong?
Lionel, former editor of the Financial Times, and Alan, editor of Prospect and former editor of the Guardian, will bring you revealing, high profile interviews and in-depth discussion.
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How long will the ‘Burnham bounce’ last?
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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Patrick Radden Keefe: ‘I’m not your therapist. I’m not your PR person. I’m a journalist’
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Aug 10, 2026 |
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Rod Liddle: the provocateur who loved to scandalise. But what did he really believe?
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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Mehdi Hasan: Why US media shies away from talking about genocide
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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So you didn’t get a Burnham interview? Break out the tiny violins
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Corruption, convictions and vengeance: Maggie Haberman on the inside story of the second Trump presidency
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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Burnham’s new cabinet: What did the media miss?
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Political censorship: How governments are using national security laws to silence journalists
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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Ann Widdecombe’s murder: Have the police said too much?
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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Iain Dale: I'm a Conservative but I don't do propaganda (unlike GB News)
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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It’s the media’s fault! Nigel Farage plays the victim card
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Lachlan Cartwright: ‘American media became a propaganda arm to get Trump elected’
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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Will the BBC cave in to Trump?
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Vicious media: How the Murdoch press attacks its targets
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Starmer’s downfall: Is the media to blame?
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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Beeban Kidron: What the Online Safety Act gets right (and wrong)
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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Murdoch’s biggest deal yet
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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The 60 Minutes meltdown: inside the power struggles reshaping America’s iconic news show
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Henry Nowak and how the media fuels racism
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Joshi Herrmann ‘If we're going to devolve more power to places like Greater Manchester we’re going to need to bulk up the quality of the local media.’
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Ofcom’s Michael Grade doesn't understand impartiality
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Why are Britain’s politicians so weak on freedom of speech?
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Peter Geoghegan on getting SLAPP’d: ‘It had a huge chilling effect’
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May 28, 2026 |
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Hiring on the cheap: Are news organisations exploiting young journalists?
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May 21, 2026 |
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Investigative journalist Gabriel Pogrund: ‘Go after big targets because they deserve to be pursued, not because you want to take them down’
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May 18, 2026 |
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Will Ofcom finally sanction GB News?
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May 14, 2026 |
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Liam Byrne: What happens when populists win?
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May 11, 2026 |
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Slapped: Why can’t we talk about Nigel Farage’s crypto donations?
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May 07, 2026 |
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Killing with impunity: the death of Amal Khalil in Lebanon
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May 04, 2026 |
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Trump: AI accusations and assassination attempts
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Press Gazette and the end of ‘Barbara Santini’
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Mandygate: The megaton bomb that shook Westminster
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Sidney Blumenthal: ‘There’s about to be a real, severe change in American politics’
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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How the media brought down Viktor Orbán
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Democracy at risk: The big banks censoring free speech
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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The madness of King Trump (continued)
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Susan Glasser on Trump: ‘The big, fat, naked emperor in the room’
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Why the US treasury secretary thinks the FT has become ‘tabloid trash’
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Does the Washington Post have a future?
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Breaking news: the BBC’s new director-general
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Why isn’t Ofcom investigating GB News?
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Pete Hegseth and the future of American press
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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What gets lost when war hits the headlines
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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The Telegraph: The deal is done
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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The Murdochs: Autopsy of a family’s slow death
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Reporting on Iran: How to cover total warfare
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Is the Westminster lobby a victim of groupthink?
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Arresting images: How to snap an (ex) prince
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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‘It’s dangerous work’: The battle against digital disinformation
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Labour Together’s snooping operation on journalists
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Marty Baron on the Washington Post’s ‘death spiral’
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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‘Jeff Bezos could have saved the Washington Post. Instead he’s trashed it’
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Bellingcat founder: ‘Playing whack-a-mole with disinformation is always going to fail’
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Bezos, the BBC and reporting the Epstein files
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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When did climate coverage become part of the culture wars?
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Alex Pretti, ICE and the New York Times
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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How to protect the BBC from its enemies
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Prince Harry v the tabloids
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Elon Musk vs Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales on why democracy won’t survive without facts
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Liz Truss and the rise of YouTube politics
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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How CBS lost its way
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Trump, Maduro and the Washington Post
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Are we losing our civil liberties?
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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‘Despair is a luxury’: A year of hope with Zizek, Mehdi Hasan, Robert Macfarlane and others
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Cory Doctorow: How the internet went to sh*t
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Only in Denmark? The ‘existential editor’ covering life, death, love and everything in between
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Zanny Minton Beddoes on Steve Bannon: ‘Comparing Trump to Moses was quite something’
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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What’s next for Alan Rusbridger?
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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The investigative journalists resisting legal threats
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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‘I’m with you on the free press, it’s the newspapers I can’t stand’: What Tom Stoppard got right about journalism
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Ben Zand: How to make money in journalism (without selling your soul)
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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The OBR springs a leak! Reporting on a budget shambles story
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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The BBC crisis: The next test
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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‘The New York Times won’t settle’: Why reporters will not be intimidated by Donald Trump
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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What’s next for the BBC? A new director-general
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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‘Trump is a grifter. The BBC must not pay him a dime’
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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The Nerve: ‘We want to shine a light on culture… with a bit of “F— you” energy on the side’
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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The BBC is in a mess—but it’s not what you think
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Goalhanger co-founder: ‘I’ve stepped in to stop Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart arguing’
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Has Ofcom opened the door to a British Fox News?
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Peter Oborne: Is the British media complicit in genocide?
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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How would you prepare to interview Putin?
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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‘We asked Israel to investigate the deaths of our journalists. We’re still waiting’
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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‘Rupert Murdoch follows me on Substack’
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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‘Lord Lebedev called me a prick…which sold extra subscriptions’
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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The Hack: What happens now?
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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The Successor: Who is Lachlan Murdoch?
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Who gets right of reply?
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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The Hack: What’s the real story?
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Lisa Nandy: We’re not afraid to regulate US big tech, no matter what Donald Trump says
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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America’s assault on free speech
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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What would you ask Donald Trump?
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Does the news need gatekeeping?
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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The Murdoch succession: Lachlan gets the power; his siblings get rich(er)
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Greg Lukianoff: ‘Bring back freedom of speech’
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Why is the media dancing to Farage’s tune?
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Trump’s 100 days, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Ethan Zuckerman: How to escape the internet hellscape
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Mehdi Hasan: ‘The media doesn’t want to hear certain people’
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Slavoj Žižek: ‘Elon Musk lives like a communist’
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Q&A: Has the media contributed to ‘tinderbox Britain’?
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Tesla exposed: how a whistleblower lifted the lid on Elon Musk
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Q&A: Can you express your own views as an editor?
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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How long can Ofcom allow Nigel Farage to keep his own show?
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Q&A: Mamdani vs the media
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Tom McTague: ‘This country’s problems run deeper than Starmer thinks’
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Q&A: Would you ever break an NDA?
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Sophia Smith Galer: How to make the truth go viral
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Q&A: Should the BBC have a paywall in the USA?
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Only in Denmark? Meet the ‘existential editor’ covering life, death, love and everything in between
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Q&A: What makes a good reporter?
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Scaramucci on Trump: ‘He’s going to tell 10,000 lies this year as president’
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Q&A: Where do you get your information about the Middle East?
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Substack’s co-founder: Elon Musk ‘saw it as a declaration of war’
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Q&A: How do you help the BBC?
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Why AI companies don’t want journalism to exist
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Q&A: What's the biggest risk you've ever taken?
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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The new wave of approachable journalism
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Q&A: Would you have interviewed Hitler?
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Does ‘free speech’ even exist?
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May 29, 2025 |
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Q&A: What’s happening to the Telegraph?
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May 26, 2025 |
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Trump v the New York Times
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May 22, 2025 |
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Q&A: Who is the rudest person you've ever interviewed?
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May 19, 2025 |
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CNN's CEO: ‘If we didn't have politicians on air who might lie, we'd struggle to fill the airwaves’
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May 15, 2025 |
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Q&A: How to make the Evening Standard great again
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May 12, 2025 |
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Harry Shukman: Undercover in the Far Right
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May 08, 2025 |
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Q&A: It’s ‘Da Business’— The launch of Alan and Lionel's (imaginary) new newspaper
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May 05, 2025 |
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New hope for the newsroom?
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May 01, 2025 |
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Q&A: How do you prepare for the death of a Pope?
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Are cartoonists about to be cancelled?
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Q&A: Bezos or Musk–who would you rather be in a rocket with?
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Who owns the media?
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Q&A: How do you spot a story?
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Trump’s tariff-mania: What are journalists missing?
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Q&A: Have you ever felt your life was under threat?
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Is this the most dangerous time to be a journalist?
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Q&A: Signal and the Atlantic defence leak
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Michael Wolff: Cancelled by Trump attacks
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Q&A: How to deal with a conspiracy theory
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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John Sawers: ‘The deep state is what keeps us stable’
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Q&A: Has journalism become a commodity?
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Ash Sarkar: ‘Media is politics by other means’
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Q&A: What's the difference between dead cats and real cats?
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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How do you solve a problem like gen Z?
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Q&A: Do echo chambers actually exist?
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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The Murdoch monarchy: Who will take the crown?
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Q&A: What's the role of journalism in the age of Trump?
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Can you ‘bomb-proof’ the BBC?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Q&A: How to stay safe in a war zone
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Sam Freedman: “The press lobby’s gone feral!”
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Q&A: How to interview a president
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Norm Pearlstine: “Media is Trump’s cocaine”
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Q&A: Reporting as an act of resistance
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Are UK journalists under state surveillance?
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Saad Mohseni: The tycoon and the Taliban
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Prince Harry wins, Telegraph in Limbo: What next?
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Q&A: The BBC, a broken tape recorder and a fake Meryl Streep
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Armando Iannucci: "X is an industrial piss factory"
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Q&A: When Lionel met Obama and Alan met the queen
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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2025: Buckle up! It’s going to be quite a year
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Is assisted dying moral? Rowan Williams and Brenda Hale in conversation
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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2024 in review: From Sanewashing to the Observer sale
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Q&A: Will machines replace us?
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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AI: Powering newsrooms of the future?
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Q&A: The Daily Mail's sidebar of shame
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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The Murdoch Succession and the limits of AI
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Q&A: What's REALLY going on at the Observer?
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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AI: how to stop Big Tech ripping off journalism (again)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Q&A: Lionel’s Wild Ride
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Trump 2.0: Buckle up! It’s going to be wild
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Sayeeda Warsi on the Tories and why ‘Muslims don’t matter’
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Reporting on a burning planet
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Q&A: Michael Lewis, the Observer and asking difficult questions
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Marianna Spring: Truth and the social media scandal
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Q&A: The death of local news
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Exclusive: The Observer's existential crisis
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Q&A: The most embarrassing mistakes of our careers
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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US election 2024: The final days
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Q&A: How influential is Joe Rogan?
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Eric Beecher: Making an enemy of Murdoch
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Q&A: Advice for aspiring editors? Get a backbone!
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Michael Lewis on his critics: “It’s all horseshit”
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Q&A: Is an editor's life just about boozy lunches?
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Esther Solomon: Editing in a war zone
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Q&A: Should social media platforms be legally regulated?
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Justine Roberts: Mumsnet takes on Big Tech
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Q&A: What went wrong at the Evening Standard?
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Tim Snyder: Why a Trump victory is a threat to freedom
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Q&A: How does an in-depth investigation begin?
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Elon Musk: The Man Who Destroyed Twitter
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Q&A: Why does the press hate Prince Harry?
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Rebecca Solnit: ‘Sanewashing’ Trump’s Gibberish
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Q&A: Cummings vs Campbell, who was toughest to deal with?
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Has Musk gone too far?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Trump and conspiracies: Does the truth even matter now?
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Biden: Is the game up for the President?
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Election 2024: It’s the Sun wot lost it!
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Julian Assange: A landmark moment in press freedom?
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Farage’s Reform: the media’s wife—or its mistress?
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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The Washington Post: the chaos continues
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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The British are coming! How editors from the UK are conquering the American media
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Kara Swisher: How big tech squashed the media
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May 29, 2024 |
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The Tory TV Channel
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May 23, 2024 |
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‘Reporting from a horror movie’: Motaz Azaiza and Youmna El Sayed
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May 16, 2024 |
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Phone hacking: What did Murdoch know?
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May 09, 2024 |
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The phone hacking scandal: new evidence and fresh claims
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May 02, 2024 |
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Meloni’s Media Clampdown
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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The West Bank according to Gideon Levy: Locked inside a living hell
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Anne Applebaum on Ukraine, the forgotten war
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Israel kicks out Al Jazeera
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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The GB News Propaganda Machine
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Counting the casualties of war
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Gary Younge: Dog bites man *is* the story after all
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Trump’s Public Enemy Number One?
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The demise of Vice and BuzzFeed: what happened to millennial media?
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Bonus episode: Should Paul Marshall be allowed to buy the Telegraph?
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Are journalists being targeted in Gaza?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Ask the Editors: Ofcom, GB News and Biden on TikTok
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Is this the future of local news?
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Is the right-wing media ‘out of control’?
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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How the government captured the BBC
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Trump v Biden, Round Two: how to cover the US election
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The Post Office scandal: Toby Jones on his drama’s impact
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The media world in 2024
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Review of the Year with Beth Rigby
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Lynsey Addario: how I took the defining image from Ukraine
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Reporting on Gaza: bravery, brutal facts and the need for context
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The phone hacking scandal gets an extra dimension
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Legendary photographer Sir Don McCullin “damaged” by his work in war zones
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Mona Chalabi on Gaza, bias and the New York Times
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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James O’Brien on the media figures who “broke Britain”
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Should Ofcom get GB News under control?
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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AI and the future of journalism with Mathias Döpfner
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Is there a media bias against Israel?
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Disinformation on X, and the power of the Telegraph’s Barclay brothers
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Israel, Hamas and media in a time of war
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Legendary US editor Marty Baron on Donald Trump, Edward Snowden and Jeff Bezos
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Rupert Murdoch steps back: politics and succession, with Malcolm Turnbull and Michael Wolff
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Preview Episode
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Sep 20, 2023 |