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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Outlier Media Reimagines What Local News Can Be (00:51:06)
In 2016, Sarah Alvarez, a former civil-rights lawyer and reporter, reimagined what journalism could be. Rather than break news or publish stories on a website, her project, Outlier Media, promised to ...
A Veteran of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—and its Long Strike—Prepares for What’s Next (00:44:53)
At first, January 7 felt to Bob Batz Jr. like a triumphant day. The U.S. Supreme Court had declined to consider an appeal from Batz’s longtime employer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the latest in a lo...
How the Gawker Trial Was the Gateway to Trump: Examining a political legacy, ten years on. (01:19:30)
In 2007, Valleywag, Gawker’s gossip column devoted to Silicon Valley, published a short piece about a then-little-known venture capitalist and tech founder, under the headline “Peter Thiel is totally ...
Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth (00:44:40)
Annual reports are generally pretty boring documents, bogged down with numbers taken out of context and marketing-speak about “thriving in the face of unprecedented challenges.” Not Jasper Wang’s. A...
Why You Should Never Marry a Journalist—and Other Lessons from Decades in Media (00:30:28)
The Kicker returns with our former host, Josh Hersh, and our new one, Megan Greenwell, in conversation. Between President Trump’s legal battles against news outlets, the defunding of public media, the...
Jay Rosen on the Digital Revolution That Wasn’t (00:41:31)
In 2006, Jay Rosen, the media scholar, published his influential article “The People Formerly Known as the Audience.” His medium was as important as his message. Although the essay would later appear ...
Ben Smith Isn’t Afraid of the Future (00:36:34)
It has been called “the last good day on the internet”: on February 26, 2015, Americans flocked online to watch fugitive llamas in Arizona evade their captors on a live broadcast, shortly before an am...
How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs (00:59:08)
When Natalia Antelava cofounded Coda Story, in early 2016, to cover democratic backsliding around the globe, she wasn’t expecting the tech industry to be such a big part of the story. It wasn’t only t...
The Future of Journalism After Gaza (00:53:28)
Examining an ongoing crisis for press freedom—and how to manage security risks going forward. For Journalism 2050’s inaugural live event, Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin are joined by Azmat Khan, the d...
Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros (01:05:25)
In 1992, a writer named Douglas Rushkoff signed a contract for Cyberia, his book about the internet subcultures of the West Coast. The next year, his publisher canceled it, according to Rushkoff’s rec...
Journalism 2050 - Trailer (00:01:19)
Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin speak with the smartest minds in media to discuss the roots of today's crisis in journalism, from democracy's decline to the rise of AI, and to explore the uncertain fut...
Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics (00:28:07)
This summer, Margaret Sullivan, the executive director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia Journalism School, and her colleague Julie Gerstein published a series...
Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE (00:25:26)
On Thursday, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring federal agents from using riot control measures like tear gas to disperse journalists seeking to cover protests outside the Br...
Elle Reeve on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes (00:36:00)
In 2017, Elle Reeve, then a correspondent for Vice News, became a household name when she reported from the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia—as neo-Nazis marched with burning torch...
Garrett Graff Thinks the Press Should Be Taking Trump’s Health Much More Seriously (00:27:51)
Last week, as DC reporters were patting themselves on the back for not falling for internet falsehoods claiming that Donald Trump had secretly died, Garrett Graff wrote an essay on his blog, Doomsday ...
Hind Hassan Is Sorry We Didn’t Do More to Make Journalism Safe (00:28:40)
Earlier this month, Hind Hassan, a decorated documentary news reporter who has covered everything from conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine to the bizarre underworld of the global wellness industry...
Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media? (00:24:24)
For the past few weeks, MAGA media and conservative podcasters have been torn apart over President Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga. Anna Merlan, a senior reporter at Mother Jones, joins T...
What’s the Matter with the BBC? (00:26:50)
Recent weeks have not been very comfortable for the BBC. A documentary about Gaza it refused to broadcast was aired instead by a competitor, to critical acclaim. A livestream of the Glastonbury Festiv...
The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up (00:41:35)
Last year, Branko Brkic, the founder of the Daily Maverick, a South African news outlet, left his day job to launch an advocacy campaign in defense of journalism. Called Project Kontinuum, the organiz...
The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza (00:24:59)
For nearly twenty years, Arwa Damon worked as a journalist covering conflict zones across the Middle East—much of it as a prominent correspondent for CNN. But in 2015, amid the unending horrors of th...
The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East (00:43:17)
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning Iraqi journalist for The Guardian and the author of A Stranger in Your Own City (2023), a reported memoir of his life as an architect turned journalist during the...
What’s the Point of Investigating Trump? (00:24:15)
David Fahrenthold won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2016 reporting on how Donald Trump’s lifetime of charitable giving was largely a mirage. Nine years later, he’s still reporting on how Trumpworld’s cla...
‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams (00:30:01)
For more than thirty years, Phil Williams has been the steadying voice of investigative reporting at NewsChannel 5, in Nashville. His deep dives into toxic wastewater and lobbyist access to state poli...
‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media (00:32:10)
Last week, Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the end of funding for NPR and PBS. It’s the latest attempt by conservatives to cut back on support for public media, and in particular ta...
Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network (00:29:44)
A few years ago, El Salvador was one of the most violent nations in the world, with gang killings taking the lives of dozens of people every week. Nayib Bukele, elected president in 2019, changed all...
