Ian Hislop, Gary Lineker's new podcast deal with Netflix, YouTubers filming drug and alcohol use in Manchester, football piracy
03 Dec 2025
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This week on The Media Show with Ros Atkins: Ian Hislop joins us to talk satire, lawsuits, and the m...
The Reith Lecture row, Telegraph sale & CNN documentary MisinfoNation: White Genocide
26 Nov 2025
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Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins on some of the biggest stories shaping the UK and global media. Dame Ca...
Manager of YouTube's Sidemen Jordan Schwarzenberger, BBC crisis latest, Ed Sheeran Netflix producer Ben Winston
19 Nov 2025
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Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins discuss the latest developments in the BBC’s ongoing crisis after Pr...
How do we fix the BBC?
12 Nov 2025
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On this week’s edition of The Media Show Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins take you inside the biggest...
Mishal Husain, Andy Wilman and the Traitors Finale
05 Nov 2025
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Ros Atkins and Katie Razzall talk to Mishal Husain about her new Bloomberg radio show and her depart...
Play for Today relaunch, diversity in advertising, streaming consolidation, Bettany Hughes and Treasures of the World
29 Oct 2025
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Katie Razzall and guests discuss some of this week's media stories including: The relaunch of the dr...
Reporting on the Prince Andrew scandal, 'slow journalism' and how AI is influencing how we consume news
22 Oct 2025
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Ros Atkins talks to Paul Salopek the journalist who’s walking around the world in search of storie...
Reporting the Gaza ceasefire, Bari Weiss profile, Today in Parliament
15 Oct 2025
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Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy and The Independent’s Bel Trew join us to discuss their reporti...
Steve Rosenberg, Zanny Minton Beddoes, new Victoria Beckham documentary and the ethics of secret filming
08 Oct 2025
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Katie Razall on some of the week's biggest media stories: BBC Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg, on win...
TV rights and the Boat Race, conspiracy theories in the media ecosystem, Larry Ellison, Newspaper legal challenge to Reform UK
01 Oct 2025
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Ros Atkins on some of the biggest media stories this week. As the BBC loses TV rights to the Boat ...
Reporting on migrant hotels, Jimmy Kimmel's return, The Hack
24 Sep 2025
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A new BBC investigation into the government's use of hotels to house migrants has led to the governm...
Guto Harri, James O Brien, Isabel Oakeshott on the Unite the Kingdom rally and the Charlie Kirk Shooting, Tim Davie
17 Sep 2025
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Katie Razzall speaks to the Director General of the BBC Tim Davie at the Royal Television Society Fe...
Super Mario is 40, Russia Whatsapp ban, Murdoch succession, The media v The Judiciary?
10 Sep 2025
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Ros Atkins and Katie Razzall on Super Mario at 40 with the Guardian's Video Games Editor Keza MacDon...
Reform UK media strategy, French Bloquons Tout protestors, new Vogue editor & the British journalist who interviewed Hitler.
03 Sep 2025
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The Media Show with Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins: The Nottingham Post and BBC-funded Local Democracy...
Noel Clarke libel case, AI articles, filming wildlife
27 Aug 2025
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Actor Noel Clarke has lost his libel case against The Guardian. The paper had run a series of storie...
Trading off the news, Edinburgh TV Festival, how the global media covered White House peace talks
20 Aug 2025
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Ros Atkins talks to Hollywood insider and founder of the digital media company Puck Matt Belloni and...
Journalists in Gaza, AI Avatar, Housing Journalism, True Crime
13 Aug 2025
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After an Israeli attack in Gaza City killed four Al Jazeera journalists, including correspondent Ana...
Return of MasterChef, No. 10's TikTok Strategy, Bluey on YouTube, Investigating Tesla
06 Aug 2025
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MasterChef has returned to our screens. We hear from the BBC journalist who first broke the story ab...
Christiane Amanpour, Dead Internet Theory, Food journalism
30 Jul 2025
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What is the ‘dead internet theory’ and what does it tell us about our anxieties about AI? The Ec...
YouTube media coverage of Epping migrant hotel protests, Catholic influencers, Claims journalists in Gaza face starvation
23 Jul 2025
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Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins discuss some of the biggest media stories this week, including how the ...
Afghan data breach superinjunction, Future of the BBC, Tour de France
16 Jul 2025
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This week a super-injunction was lifted that allowed the press to report on a story it’s known abo...
Gregg Wallace, The Salt Path, Oasis reunion tour, migrant small boats media coverage
09 Jul 2025
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Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins discuss some of the main media stories in the news this week including ...
Broadcasting Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, Tim Franks, F1’s media strategy
02 Jul 2025
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As Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary that the BBC has shelved, we speak to Dorothy Byrne, former H...
Jimmy Lai - media tycoon and political prisoner, the new Wargame podcast, Tattle Life gossip website
25 Jun 2025
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Katie Razzall on some of this week's biggest media stories including an interview with Sebastien Lai...
Reporting on the Israel Iran conflict, influencers on the radio, Reddit at 20, Grenfell Uncovered documentary
18 Jun 2025
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Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins on some of the week's biggest media stories: How are journalists report...
Sir Martin Sorrell on AI & Advertising, Dan Snow History Hit, the ethics of working with a convicted criminal to tell a story
11 Jun 2025
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Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins with some of the biggest media stories of the week including Sir Martin...
Reporting from the Hajj at Mecca, Katherine Maher from National Public Radio in America takes on President Trump's funding cuts
04 Jun 2025
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Ros Atkins with some of the week's biggest media stories: Katherine Maher the CEO of National Publi...
Daytime TV crisis? Police media strategy shift after car ploughs into crowd at Liverpool FC parade, Simon Reeve
29 May 2025
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Katie Razzall presents some of the big stories in the media this week, including how the police in M...
Gary Lineker fallout
21 May 2025
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Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins on some of this week's big media stories. As Gary Lineker leaves the BB...
The weather influencers taking social media by storm, Sir Peter Bazalgette, reporting the mushroom murder trial in Australia
14 May 2025
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Ros Atkins and Katie Razzall on the week's big media stories from around the world. What next for p...
Self-professed media diva Tina Brown and Chris Best, cofounder of the publishing platform Substack
07 May 2025
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Ros Atkins & Katie Razzall talk to the self professed Media Diva Tina Brown. The former editor ...
Piers Morgan, the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on sex and gender for the media
30 Apr 2025
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Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins talk to Piers Morgan about his new Youtube venture Uncensored. What ar...
Pentagon leaks, reporting on the death of the Pope, Genius Game
23 Apr 2025
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Katie Razzall and Ros Atkins discuss some of the biggest media stories this week including: The late...
Reporting on the British Steel crisis, should we 'ditch' intellectual property law? and Saturday Night Live for Britain?
16 Apr 2025
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Katie Razzall talks to Katy Balls, Political Editor of the Spectator as she heads off for her new po...
IPL cricket , the end of The Lady magazine, Tech bro profile Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, impact of tariffs on TV and the streamers
09 Apr 2025
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Katie Razzall and guests discuss some of the biggest media stories this week: As the cricket season ...
Impact of Adolescence drama, Nintendo Switch 2 launch, The Young Turks
02 Apr 2025
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We explore the impact of the hit Netflix drama, Adolescence, which has sparked national debate over ...
Peter Kosminsky, AI and publishing, Media crackdown in Turkey
26 Mar 2025
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The director of Wolf Hall, Peter Kosminsky, and CEO of Bad Wolf, Jane Tranter, discuss a TV industry...
Welfare reform coverage, Michael Jackson documentary, cuts to US-backed overseas media
20 Mar 2025
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Ros, Katie and guests assess Labour's media strategy amid its £5bn welfare cuts and weigh up the im...
New Facebook memoir, TV show Chess Masters, books to films at London Book Fair
12 Mar 2025
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An exclusive interview with Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook executive publishing a revealing ...
White House press access, Kursk documentary, Jeff Bezos's new rules for the Washington Post
06 Mar 2025
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As the Trump administration takes control of the 100 year-old media pool system, Eugene Daniels, Pre...
Mehdi Hasan, BBC Gaza doc controversy, Peter Thiel profile
26 Feb 2025
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Social media bosses from Meta, X, TikTok and Google were grilled by the House of Commons Science, In...
Media diplomacy, The New Yorker at 100, Sam Altman profile
19 Feb 2025
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As international talks continue about the war in Ukraine, former NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu and...
In the room with Trump and Musk, BBC Media Action answers its critics, what makes tech bros tick?
12 Feb 2025
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What happened at Elon Musk’s unexpected White House press conference alongside President Trump? Re...
Future-proofing media
05 Feb 2025
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Katie and Ros are joined by some of the biggest names in media to dissect the shifting landscape of ...
China's AI win, transparency in family courts, refugee life close up
29 Jan 2025
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From TikTok to AI, concerns are growing around the world about the influence of Chinese technology. ...
Prince Harry settles, Gaza ceasefire coverage, Children’s TV
22 Jan 2025
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The long-running legal battle between Prince Harry and the British tabloids has come to a dramatic e...
Reporting the LA Fires, AI Michael Parkinson, US TikTok ban approaches
15 Jan 2025
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We talk to reporters in Los Angeles about the challenges of covering the fires there. As the governm...
Uncovering the grooming gangs, Meta ditches fact checkers, Grand Theft Auto 6
08 Jan 2025
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We talk to Andrew Norfolk, one of the first journalists to report on the grooming gangs story, an is...
PR v journalism, Post Office drama one year on, predictions for 2025
01 Jan 2025
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A New Years Day programme where we look forward and back. The Media Show teams up with Radio 4's cri...
CNN Syria Report, Health Misinformation, Time Person of the Year
18 Dec 2024
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We discuss why CNN is under pressure after a viral news report from Syria turned out not to be all i...
Media in the new Syria, how to be an online investigator, can you copyright a vibe?
11 Dec 2024
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Kholoud Helmi, co-founder of independent Syrian newspaper Enab Baladi and reporter Edmund Bower disc...
How to interview Anna Wintour, welfare on TV sets, where to start with Reddit
04 Dec 2024
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Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour talks to Katie about her career and the new exhibition, VOGUE: In...
The end-of-life influencer, Christmas adverts, Mishal Husain leaves the BBC
27 Nov 2024
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We talk to journalists and influencers about how they discuss assisted dying. As staff at The Observ...
Investigating abuse in the Church of England, Tyson vs Paul, NYT Games, Leaving X for Bluesky
20 Nov 2024
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The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury has sparked renewed discussion about accountability ...
How to cover Trump now, Taskmaster creator Alex Horne and who will replace Gary Lineker?
13 Nov 2024
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When Donald Trump won in 2016, it boosted cable news and newspaper subscriptions, with some outlets ...
Trump's winning media strategy, Observer sale, royal journalism
06 Nov 2024
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Donald Trump has pledged to send reporters to jail and strip major television networks of their broa...
Ballots, bias and big tech
30 Oct 2024
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This week, The Media Show broadcasts from Washington DC, and asks what the election tells us about t...
George Osborne on covering the budget, Real Housewives' Andy Cohen, media strategies of the far right
23 Oct 2024
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George Osborne, presenter of Political Currency, on covering his first Labour budget as a journalist...
BBC News cuts, Isis Prisons Museum, the perils of press junkets
16 Oct 2024
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The BBC has announced cuts to its news output including closing the interview show HARDtalk after ne...
Reporting Gaza, expert women on the news, publishing's big week
09 Oct 2024
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The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf, The Economist's Zanny Minton Beddoes, how to increase the number of femal...
Middle East crisis, Sony's video game flop, The Sidemen
02 Oct 2024
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As the Israeli offensive against targets in Lebanon continues, we discuss the challenges for journal...
Al Fayed and the media, Have I Got News for You USA, TV news in Afghanistan
25 Sep 2024
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Katie and Ros meet Erica Gornal, director of the BBC’s new investigation into serious sexual abuse...
TV's "culture problem", origins of Trump's pet eating allegations, the race for AI supremacy
18 Sep 2024
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Donald Trump’s ‘migrants eat pets’ claim is the US election’s most viral meme so far. We tal...
Russia’s alleged ties to US influencers, Government terrorism watchdog, Lucy Letby coverage
11 Sep 2024
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The US Department of Justice says it has uncovered a Russian-influence operation recruiting prominen...
Grenfell: the journalists and bloggers who warned of disaster
04 Sep 2024
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As the final report of the six-year Grenfell inquiry is published, we explore the way the story has ...
Telegram founder arrested
28 Aug 2024
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After the detention in France of Pavel Durov, owner of the controversial Telegram app, we explore wh...
TV's hidden dilemma
21 Aug 2024
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To many, we're living through a golden age of TV. But behind the rich offerings for consumers lie se...
The riots and the media
14 Aug 2024
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Lorna Woods' thinking was central to the new Online Safety Act, designed to tackle dangerous content...
Sun Editor Victoria Newton
07 Aug 2024
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We talk to Tom Witherow from The Times who's been tracing where the false claim the Southport attack...
Huw Edwards pleads guilty
31 Jul 2024
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David Silito reflects on Huw Edwards's guilty plea to making indecent images of children, 41 images ...
“The UK’s wildest climate trial”
24 Jul 2024
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The trial of five activists who disrupted the M25 in London in 2022 concluded last week with them re...
Trump shooting: the journalists who were there
17 Jul 2024
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We talk to three journalists who were there when a gunman tried to assassinate Donald Trump. The att...
How to cover a general election
10 Jul 2024
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In the aftermath of the Labour landslide Roger Mosey, former Editorial Directior of BBC News, accuse...
Reporting Biden's health
03 Jul 2024
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In the aftermath of his halting debate performance, the editorial boards of some of the major US new...
Julian Assange: journalist or activist?
26 Jun 2024
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On the day Julian Assange is freed, we explore the story of WikiLeaks' unprecedented data releases, ...
Political podcasts - who's listening?
19 Jun 2024
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What's behind the glut of politics podcasts? Hardly a month goes by without a new title being launch...
The PM and D-Day: how the row unfolded
12 Jun 2024
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We explore how political scandals unfold across the media and the art of the 'get to know' interview...
Papers, politics, power
05 Jun 2024
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How do we gauge the power of newspapers in this election? Will press endorsements from the mainstrea...
Is this the TikTok election?
29 May 2024
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A week into the election, we explore party control of the media message and the gaffes that happen w...
Newsnight: end of an era
22 May 2024
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At the end of this week Newsnight as we know it comes to an end. From Tuesday, its format will chang...
Baby Reindeer: truth or fiction?
15 May 2024
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Katie and Ros go inside the controversy about Netflix drama Baby Reindeer which has raised questions...
Inside the US campus protests
08 May 2024
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US university campuses have been the scene of pro-Palestinian demonstrations over the last month. We...
Behind the Information Iron Curtain
01 May 2024
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An information iron curtain has fallen across large parts of the globe, where access to impartial ne...
Ofcom, impartiality and elections
24 Apr 2024
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Katie and Ros explore the place of creativity in modern media, from advertising to game show formats...
What next for Channel 4?
17 Apr 2024
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Last week Dr Hilary Cass published her final report and recommendations to NHS England in her role a...
How I set up Truth Social
10 Apr 2024
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The Executive Chairman of the Sky News Group, David Rhodes shares his plans for Sky News – and on ...
Fear, threats and intimidation
03 Apr 2024
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British counter terrorism officers are investigating the stabbing last Friday of an Iranian TV host ...
How conspiracy theories went mainstream
27 Mar 2024
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Last week, the Princess of Wales announced that she is undergoing treatment for cancer. It was prece...
Is the clock ticking for TikTok?
20 Mar 2024
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As the US Congress moves to ban TikTok on national security grounds, we ask could the UK follow? Elo...
Is seeing still believing?
13 Mar 2024
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We discuss the controversial photo of the Princess of Wales and her children released by Kensington ...
Pam Abdy, CEO Warner Bros Motion Picture Group
08 Mar 2024
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Exclusive interview with one of Hollywood's most powerful executives
Is this the end for TalkTV?
06 Mar 2024
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With the scandal still all over the front as well as the back pages, we explore what the Christian H...
Reverberations of the Israel-Gaza War
28 Feb 2024
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With Islamophobia, antisemitism, and threats against MPs all in the news, what role has the media it...
Russia and Ukraine: reporting the war two years on
21 Feb 2024
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Two years on from Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine and in the week of the death of opposition...
Prince Harry's dispute with the tabloids - who's next?
14 Feb 2024
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Last week Prince Harry settled his outstanding claims with the Mirror titles – but only after he t...
Tucker Carlson's head to head with Putin
07 Feb 2024
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Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News presenter, has travelled to Moscow to interview Russian Presiden...
How air fryers cooked up a media feast
31 Jan 2024
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This week Channel 4 announced major job cuts, caused in part by a decline in the amount of advertisi...
Deepfakes v democracy
24 Jan 2024
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Voters in New Hampshire have been getting phone messages apparently from Joe Biden urging them not t...
Hashtags and hijacking
17 Jan 2024
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On the day the United States designates the Houthis as a terror group, we explore how the organisati...
The Post Office Scandal: a failure of the press?
10 Jan 2024
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Why did it take an ITV drama for a huge miscarriage of justice to get the headlines it deserves? As ...