The Media Show Podcast
Social media, anti-social media, breaking news, faking news: this is the programme about a revolution in media.
Episodes to download
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Why advertisers are blacklisting news
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Some brands are ensuring their ads do not appear with news stories they disapprove of.
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Taking care of reality TV guests
Wed 14 Aug 2019
How can reality TV and radio take better care of participants?
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Hunting spies and exposing lies
Wed 7 Aug 2019
How Eliot Higgins founded Bellingcat and reinvented investigative journalism
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Changing the game of sports journalism
Wed 31 Jul 2019
The Athletic has hired some of the UK's most popular football writers.
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The power of the columnist
Wed 24 Jul 2019
As Boris Johnson swaps punditry for Downing Street, how much power do columnists have?
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Who's watching the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½?
Wed 3 Jul 2019
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Annual Report reveals that fewer young people are tuning in.
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The lure of the obvious
Wed 26 Jun 2019
From Brexit to Trump, why do so many journalists keep getting it wrong?
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How the media sells us gender equality
Wed 19 Jun 2019
Harmful stereotypes have been banned from ads, and ITV is banning all-male writing teams.
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Sex, drugs and TV debates
Wed 12 Jun 2019
How the media is scrutinising the Conservative leadership rivals.
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The Daily's Michael Barbaro
Wed 12 Jun 2019
How The New York Times grew one of the world's most popular podcasts
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Chernobyl: the story of TV's highest rated show
Wed 5 Jun 2019
Sky's Zai Bennett on how their HBO co-production has become a huge critical hit
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Why seeing isn't believing
Wed 29 May 2019
A fake Nancy Pelosi video has fooled millions in the US and marks a new era of fake news
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Spies, lies and videotape
Wed 22 May 2019
How a covert film leaked to journalists has brought down Austria's government.
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The Story of Netflix with Ted Sarandos
Wed 15 May 2019
How Ted Sarandos turned Netflix into one of the world's most valuable companies.
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How to win followers and influence people
Wed 8 May 2019
News UK has opened a social influencer marketing agency
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Interrogating the producer of Line of Duty
Wed 1 May 2019
Priscilla Parish, executive producer of the UK's most popular show, reveals how it's made.
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Remembering Lyra McKee
Wed 24 Apr 2019
Remembering the 29-year-old journalist killed while observing rioting in Londonderry.
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Journalism's class ceiling
Wed 10 Apr 2019
How Julie Etchingham and Alison Phillips reached the top.
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Attenborough's Netflix adventure
Wed 27 Mar 2019
Alastair Fothergill is the producer behind some of the world's most popular nature shows
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HuffPost's Lydia Polgreen
Wed 20 Mar 2019
Editor-in-chief of HuffPost on the ethics of reporting the Christchurch mosque attacks.
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Who cares what the papers say?
Wed 13 Mar 2019
The Herald in Scotland has ended daily leader columns - will other papers follow suit?
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Investigating Michael Jackson
Wed 6 Mar 2019
Dan Reed on his film Leaving Neverland, which alleges Michael Jackson was a paedophile.
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Commercial radio tunes out of local
Wed 27 Feb 2019
The UK's largest operator of commercial radio stations is axing many local shows
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How to combat fake news?
Wed 20 Feb 2019
The DCMS Select Committee releases its report on fake news and disinformation
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The Cairncross Conundrum
Wed 13 Feb 2019
Demand for news is higher than ever, but fewer people are prepared to pay for it
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Spotify's big move on radio
Wed 6 Feb 2019
Swedish streaming company Spotify has announced a major expansion into podcasting.