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The Kicker

Columbia Journalism Review

The Kicker is a podcast on the media and the world today. It comes out twice a month, hosted by Megan Greenwell and produced by Amanda Darrach for the Columbia Journalism Review. It is available wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

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329 episodes

  1. Magazines Are Back, and They’re Newsletters 44:47
  2. California’s Big Bet on Government-Funded News 56:53
  3. A Victim of the ‘Elon Musk Playbook’ 49:10
  4. Ruth Ann Harnisch on life as the fairy godmother of newsletters, podcasts, and blogs. 50:52
  5. So Are Nonfiction Books Dead or Not? 53:58
  6. Kenya Hunter took a terrifying leap out of journalism. She couldn’t be happier. 45:51
  7. Twenty Years of Food Blogs: Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman has never needed AI to develop a recipe. 53:54
  8. What Went Wrong: A first-time editor in chief reflects on a startup that didn’t work 57:07
  9. Welcome to Hell: A site with personality big enough for the city it covers. 49:03
  10. Why Do You Have to Run from Us? Local reporters are struggling to get answers from the politicians they cover. 46:03
  11. No Fanboys Need Apply: Wired bares real teeth. 57:46
  12. Sports Illustrated’s Emma Baccellieri on covering the changing world of women’s basketball. 54:01
  13. How Documented is reinventing immigration coverage. 52:48
  14. The Globe’s Emily Sweeney breaks out of Boston. 44:26
  15. Taking Back Saturday: “We’re sports people. We like to score.” 48:34
  16. Student, Teacher: Eric Gustafson on fighting for journalistic integrity at every level. 50:54
  17. The Inside Look: Chatting with the New York Times’ trust editor. 52:49
  18. Lessons from an Early-Career Journalist 48:17
  19. A Look Back at Covering Gaza for the Post 31:32
  20. The Letter of the Law, and the Law in Practice 1:02:43
  21. A Veteran of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—and its Long Strike—Prepares for What’s Next 44:53
  22. Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth 44:40
  23. Why You Should Never Marry a Journalist—and Other Lessons from Decades in Media 30:28
  24. Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics 28:07
  25. Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE 25:26
  26. Elle Reeve on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes 36:00
  27. Garrett Graff Thinks the Press Should Be Taking Trump’s Health Much More Seriously 27:51
  28. Hind Hassan Is Sorry We Didn’t Do More to Make Journalism Safe 28:40
  29. Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media? 24:24
  30. What’s the Matter with the BBC? 26:50
  31. The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up 41:35
  32. The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza 24:59
  33. The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East 43:17
  34. What’s the Point of Investigating Trump? 24:15
  35. ‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams 30:01
  36. ‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media 32:10
  37. Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network 29:44
  38. Kai Ryssdal Was America’s Economic Voice of Reason This Week 24:31
  39. Carlos Watson Goes Free: A Surprising Coda to the CJR Podcast 19:55
  40. Molly White Knows You Don’t Understand Crypto 25:04
  41. The Legal War on Journalism 25:04
  42. The Kicker, the Masseuses, and the Price of Doing Sports Journalism 27:37
  43. A Warning from a Hungarian Journalist: ‘Brace Yourself for the Worst’ 26:41
  44. CJR’s Jon Allsop on the Return of the Trump Whirlwind 32:55
  45. Coda’s Natalia Antelava on Meta, Trump, and How Journalism Can Survive 2025 30:10
  46. The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 3: The Verdict and the Pain 1:03:26
  47. The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 2: Built on a Bluff 53:13
  48. The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 1: Truth and Mythmaking 42:59
  49. Coming Soon: The Unraveling of Ozy Media 2:16
  50. How Trump Won the Latino Vote: A Deep Dive with CJR Contributor Jack Herrera 28:29