The Queen and Us: Fact and fiction in reporting the Royals
A new podcast series On Royal Watch delves into the complicated relationship between the British royal family and the media. In today's...
- Oct 5, 2021
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: Is it the media’s fault they left royal life?
A new podcast series On Royal Watch delves into the complicated relationship between the British royal family and the media. In today's...
- Sep 29, 2021
Covering a royal scandal: How should the media report allegations against Prince Andrew?
A new podcast series On Royal Watch delves into the complicated relationship between the British royal family and the media. In today's...
- Mar 9, 2021
Meghan, Harry and Oprah: What we learned about the royals and the media
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey this week laid bare bitter rifts at the heart of the House of...
- Nov 12, 2020
Reporting Injustice Episode 5: How journalists cover missing and murdered indigenous women and girls
In today's episode, we talk to activists about missing and murdered indigenous women, girls and two spirit people and the reporters who...
- Nov 5, 2020
Reporting Injustice Episode 4: Investigating the hidden story of domestic abuse by police officers
In this episode, we look at how domestic abuse by police officers often went unpunished… until Alexandra Heal from the Bureau of...
- Oct 29, 2020
Reporting Injustice Episode 3: Exposing the true extent of the Grenfell Tower disaster
In this episode, we look at the Grenfell Tower fire of 2017 in which 72 people died. It was the worst residential fire in Britain since...
- Oct 22, 2020
Reporting Injustice Episode 2: Uncovering racism and betrayal in the Windrush Scandal
In today's episode, we look at one of the biggest stories in the British media in the past few years – the uncovering of the Windrush...
- Oct 15, 2020
Reporting Injustice Episode 1: How Bill Cosby's accusers got to tell their story
This October 16th marks the sixth anniversary of comedian Hannibal Buress’ off the cuff comment about America’s TV dad, Bill Cosby. The...
- Jun 12, 2020
Life for refugees and asylum seekers during lockdown
In today’s episode we catch up with two London refugees who have had to leave the city during the COVID-19 pandemic. Abdulwahab Tahhan is...
- May 12, 2020
Reporting Coronavirus - are journalists getting it right?
Confined to our homes in lockdown, we have never needed to be better informed about how a global pandemic is affecting our lives. As a...
- Apr 25, 2020
Celebrities and COVID-19: what role should they play?
Since the spread of COVID-19 around the world, life as we know it has changed utterly. Most major countries have faced some kind of...
- Mar 12, 2020
Robert Peston: Why I still believe in impartiality in news
The ITV political editor gives the 2020 Hugh Cudlipp Lecture A poll on Talk radio explores the perennial question of whether the BBC is...
- Feb 6, 2020
Reporting Coronavirus: Dr Mark Honigsbaum on pandemics, plague and panic
In today’s episode, we talk to medical historian Mark Honigsbaum about pandemics through the ages, from the medieval Black Death to the...
- Jan 31, 2020
Brexit and Broadcasters: how well did they report?
Jon Snow, Jill Rutter and Stewart Purvis among the high-profile speakers In today’s episode, we present highlights of a debate at City,...
- Jan 28, 2020
Selena - one of the first Tejano music stars to go mainstream
Twenty-five years after her death, why is there still a lack of Latinx representation in US media? March 31st 1995, Pop star Selena...
- Dec 10, 2019
Election Special 2019: Dorothy Byrne on trust, TV and 'unaccountable' politicians
As this year’s general election campaign draws to a close, is it true you can’t turn on a television programme without hearing from a...
- Dec 5, 2019
How well do we understand Russia?
Communism, cold war and caviar. The way Russia is portrayed in the mainstream media relies heavily on these familiar stories and old...
- Nov 24, 2019
Refugee Voices - ESRC Festival of Social Science
In today’s episode sponsored by the 2019 ESRC Festival of Social Science we’re fortunate to talk to two guests who have a key insight...
- Oct 21, 2019
What's wrong with political correctness?
We live in an age where free speech, according to some, is increasingly at odds with political correctness. Whether it’s Donald Trump...