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From the Fringe Web to Real Life: How Seriously Should We Be Taking Conspiracy Theories?

Back in December, we did an episode about Pyrra, an AI-powered software that tracks sifts through the far corners of the internet – in some places you...

Rümeysa Öztürk is Locked Up for an Op-ed: An Urgent Summit with the Student Newspaper that Published It

Where better to huddle up and discuss what to do about Rümeysa Öztürk and the chilling effect that is happening in journalism than on campus at Tufts ...

Pounding Beers in a Shed, and Other Dispatches from the War on Free Speech

Last episode we discussed the campaign to overturn the Supreme Court decision that protects reporters’ ability to criticize and investigate people in ...

Freedom of the press is great, until you're the target

For decades, a Supreme Court decision called New York Times vs Sullivan was widely beloved by people across the political spectrum. Hailed as a decisi...

The masterpiece Prince documentary Netflix won’t let you see.

The best documentary filmmaker in America spent nearly five years of his life making a nine-hour masterpiece for Netflix.

It will never see the ligh...

He quit journalism to fight authoritarianism. How’s that going?

Last year, we did an episode with Barton Gellman, who talked about the war games he was running with high-level military leaders and government offici...

A Rant or a Slant: When Should Reporters Speak From the Heart?

It’s easy to get frustrated with the charade reporters are supposed to keep up, where they pretend they don’t have opinions or feelings or any kind of...

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A Teen, a Reporter, and a Grand Jury Leak (Over BBQ)

Journalists jailed for an article they published. In America. How did this happen?

Brian tells the story of a reporting trip he took to Alabama, whe...

The News is Coming from Under the Desk… on TikTok (live from On Air Fest)

As trust in traditional journalism plummets, social media content creator V Spehar of Under the Desk News is ascendant, with over 3.4 million TikTok f...