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Listening Post Saad Hariri, Saudi Power Play and the Media
Riyadh's Middle East power struggle and the role of the news media. Plus, the challenge of covering Manus Island. -
Listening Post Climate Change: Is the Media Failing Us?
Why journalists fail to adequately report on climate change. Plus, the perils of covering the environment in Indonesia. -
Listening Post Yemen: Media Battles, Narrative Divides
How the death of Ali Abdullah Saleh put the media spotlight on Yemen. Plus, a wave of political talk shows in Spain. -
Listening Post Jerusalem: Media Flashpoints and Erased Narratives
Tropes, omissions and flaws in the coverage of US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Plus, WhatsApp in India. -
Listening Post Murder in Brazil: Covering the Assassination of Marielle Franco
The murder of Franco puts a spotlight on the Brazilian media's treatment of the slums. Plus, Honduras' Radio Progreso. -
Listening Post Grappling With the Far Right on the UK's Airwaves
Do the media help manufacture far-right movements? Plus, Ethiopia's new prime minister and the hope for media reform. -
Listening Post Reform in Saudi Arabia: Image versus reality
The jailing of female activists makes the story of reform in the kingdom harder to tell. Plus, political ads in Mexico. -
Listening Post Spectacle Over Substance: Trump, G7 and the Singapore Summit
Trump's theatrics at the G7 summit and his meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong-un. Plus, the fixers' role in journalism. -
Listening Post Turkey's Elections: One Nation, One Media, One Voice?
President Erdogan wins Turkey's vote with the media singing from the same hymn sheet. Plus, polarised media in DR Congo. -
Listening Post Afghanistan: When Journalists Become Targets
Ten Afghan journalists were killed in Kabul bombings. Plus, the human rights issue of solitary confinement in the US. -
Listening Post Kabul Bombings: The Perils of Being a Journalist in Afghanistan
Ten journalists were killed in the deadliest attack on Afghanistan's media since 2001. Plus, Winnie Mandela's legacy. -
Listening Post Lifting the Lid on Facebook's Surveillance Machinery
A whistle-blower revealed how Facebook enabled politicians to exploit personal data. And India's fatal WhatsApp rumours. -
Listening Post Israel-Palestine: Split Screens and Dissonant Narratives
A ceremony in Jerusalem, a massacre in Gaza and how the media covered both. Plus, spies on air in the US. -
Listening Post Cobrapost Sting: Indian Media Outlets and Paid News
An investigation exposes Indian media giants willing to peddle propaganda as news. Plus, the US global media operation. -
Listening Post #NeverAgain: Teenagers, Twitter and the US gun debate
How US school shooting survivors spar with gun rights activists on air and online. Plus, media strangled in Eritrea. -
Listening Post Red Lines and Military Strikes: Media Coverage of the Syrian War
We map the politics and aesthetics of the Syria news coverage. Plus, what's behind enduring sexism in the Italian media? -
Listening Post Democrats vs WikiLeaks and the Implications for US Media
The saga continues as US Democrats file suit against Russia, Trump and WikiLeaks. Plus, reporting the Rohingya story. -
Listening Post The Making and Breaking of the West Africa Leaks
Inside the biggest media collaboration in the region's history, exposing the offshore dealings of the rich and powerful. -
Listening Post Playing Dead: Arkady Babchenko and Post-Truth Conflict
The Russian journalist faked death - causing problems for the media. Plus, the Iranian diaspora reviving Shah nostalgia. -
Listening Post Headlines and Hyperbole: Covering the Sergei Skripal Story
The Skripal affair and the battle of narratives between Russia and UK; plus, Google and Facebook's censorship tactics. -
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This episode is replaced by breaking news of airstrikes on Syria. -
Listening Post Geo Goes Dark: Media and the Military in Pakistan
Media mystery in Pakistan: who ordered Geo News off the air? Plus, covering the world's largest biometric database. -
Listening Post Newsreaders in Chorus: The Monopolisation of Local News in the US
A viral video raises concerns about America's biggest TV news network. Plus, Britain's poverty porn industry. -
Listening Post The Great Firewall Update: Clamping Down on VPNs
As China and Russia limit the use of VPNs, we examine repercussions for media freedom. Plus, police vs press in Uganda. -
Listening Post How Fake News Could Shape Kenya's Elections
A look at fake news, inaccurate polls and misleading ads in the run-up to Kenya's vote. Plus, Omar Khadr and the media. -
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What is being reported by world media and how? Richard Gizbert guides you through the global news maze. -
Listening Post Covering The Grenfell Fire: UK Media In The Spotlight
Distrust in Britain's media grows following the blaze at Grenfell Tower. Plus, the persecution of Vietnam's bloggers. -
Listening Post Gulf Crisis: Al Jazeera In The Crosshairs
We examine what Al Jazeera symbolises in the GCC political crisis. Plus, a war of buzzwords in South Africa's media. -
Listening Post Duterte's War on Drugs and Those Reporting It
What's behind the Philippine president's war on the media and NGOs? Plus, reporting on the working class in the US. -
Listening Post Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh: India's Godmen And The Media
How Indian media build up the country's powerful 'babas'. -
Listening Post British Media's Coverage of Corbyn: Balanced or Biased?
The Labour Party faces a right-leaning media with weeks until the election. Plus, the media black hole in Sinai, Egypt. -
Listening Post Radio La Colifata: Argentina's 'Loony Radio'
How a radio station that broadcasts from inside a psychiatric hospital changes attitudes towards mental illness. -
Listening Post Brazil: An Inconvenient Protest for the Media
Why Brazil's strike was largely ignored by the country's big media outlets. Plus, the challenges of reporting Chechnya. -
Listening Post Facebook and the Ethics of Moderation
We examine Facebook's challenge in moderating content. Plus, the people monitoring the social web. -
Listening Post Britain Votes: How Terror Shaped The Election Coverage
We examine how acts of terror shaped the British media narrative in the run-up to the UK election. Plus, Cuban cinema. -
Listening Post India's NDTV Raided: Politics, Patriotism And The Press
Testing times as police raid India's liberal NDTV station. Plus, the media wars between Russia and Belarus. -
Listening Post Mexico's Media Battles Impunity
Mexico's journalists face intimidation and assassinations, but is the media business in crisis, too? -
Listening Post France Votes: The Media Effect
As the French media rally around Macron, how will Marine Le Pen tweak her media strategy? Plus, Podemos' challenge. -
Listening Post Turkey: the referendum and the media
Assessing the media's role in the outcome of the referendum. Plus, the dilemma of inclusion: covering the far right. -
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The geopolitical games people play when the national security narrative bleeds into the world of sports and onto television screens, and the Washington Post reporter sentenced to more jail time in Iran. Keywords: nations, paid patriotism. -
Listening Post Radio La Colifata: Argentina's 'Loony Radio'
How a radio station that broadcasts from inside a psychiatric hospital changes attitudes towards mental illness. -
Listening Post Reporting the Rise of Europe's Populist Parties
The challenges of covering the rise of the far right in Europe, plus, how Israel polices Palestinian voices online. -
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Occupied East Jerusalem news coverage, plus cartoons illustrating the Middle East conflict. -
Listening Post Climate Change: Is the Media Failing Us?
Why journalists fail to adequately report on climate change. Plus, the perils of covering the environment in Indonesia. Keywords: media and climate change. -
Listening Post Mugabe's Downfall: A New Era for Zimbabwe's Media?
The media story behind the downfall of Robert Mugabe after 37 years in power. Plus, police vs the press in Uganda. -
Listening Post Brazil: Media, Monopolies and Political Manipulations
Two years of political turmoil have revealed the depths of institutional corruption, political opportunism and - crucially - media power in Brazil. -
Listening Post Arrested, Banned, Exiled: Egypt's Dissenting Voices
With presidential elections due next month, dissent has all but disappeared in Sisi's Egypt. Plus, Hungary's media. -
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This episode is replaced by live coverage of British Prime Minister Theresa May speaking from the Security Conference in Munich. -
Listening Post Media in the Service of Xi Jinping
China's ruling party moves to remove presidential term limits. Plus, the case and coverage of Palestine's Ahed Tamimi. -
Listening Post History Through Cuban Eyes: Noticiero ICAIC
A Listening Post special looking back at a time when Cuban movie theatres delivered the news like nobody else.
