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• 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 University with the student journalists at The Tufts Daily? This week Brian and...

  1 mei 2025 4774 sec.

• 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 power. But even with that decision still in place, reporter David Enrich has...

  25 apr 2025 1669 sec.

• 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 decision that gives the first amendment teeth and sets our country apart, as a place that...

  24 apr 2025 2486 sec.

• 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 light of day.  After a nasty estate battle, the series won't be released. No one will...

  17 apr 2025 2922 sec.

• 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 officials to prepare for a second Trump term.  A bunch of you have been asking us to have...

  3 apr 2025 1539 sec.

• 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 human thoughts about a story they’re telling. Plenty of journalists have been trying...

  27 mrt 2025 2475 sec.

• Do you want to be on Question Everything?

  Do you have questions for us? If so, we want to talk to you! If you have thoughts about Question Everything, critiques of our episodes, or anything you're curious about, that we're covering, or not covering…please tell us. We want to...

  26 mrt 2025 95 sec.

• 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, where two small-town journalists had been locked up, which led to one of the most honest...

  20 mrt 2025 2074 sec.

• 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 followers. But recently, V found themself in a public dustup with NPR over, in part,...

  6 mrt 2025 3138 sec.

• Not Like Us: How Billionaires Think

  As billionaires hoard more control over our politics, it seems more important than ever to ask: What makes them tick? Four reporters gather after hours at a wine shop to discuss – over drinks – what they’ve learned from covering...

  27 feb 2025 2404 sec.

• And The Award Goes To...The Circuit Court of The Nineteenth Judicial Circuit In and For Okeechobee County, Florida

  Ben Smith tells the story of the strange controversy over a journalism award that’s been going down in a Florida courthouse. Ben is Editor-in-Chief of Semafor and co-host of the Mixed Signals podcast. He used to be The New York Times...

  13 feb 2025 2266 sec.

• A reporter? A spy? Or something else? Israel arrests its first American journalist.

  Locked up, alone, accused of being a spy, reporter Jeremy Loffredo has to defend the fact that he’s a journalist. To the Israeli courts. And then…to our reporter.  Part two of our special series about Jeremy Loffredo, who in October...

  31 jan 2025 3502 sec.