The Media Show Episodes Episode guide
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Rethinking advertising
How the pandemic is changing the ad industry.
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Opinions on opinion
The role of opinion in journalism, from newspaper columnists to reader comments.
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Who sets the news agenda?
When protests cease and statues stop falling, will journalists still report racism?
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Making news free to the world
The Guardian's Katharine Viner on resisting a paywall and fighting government obfuscation.
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Christiane Amanpour and a brief history of CNN
As CNN marks 40 years, an extended interview with one of its most celebrated journalists.
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The drama of TV production
From documentaries to soap operas, how producers are making TV in a lockdown.
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How data journalists became the rock stars of news
Stories that explain the pandemic through statistics, are some of the most shared online.
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Why we're all playing video games
From Roblox to Call of Duty, the lockdown has meant record participation in gaming.
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Secrets of the Celebrity Interview
How feature writers get the famous to say things they wish they hadn’t
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Liberalism, leading, and the lockdown
The Economist editor Zanny Minton Beddoes
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The Rehabilitation of Channel 5
How Ben Frow turned the broadcaster into RTS Channel of the Year.
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Keeping faith in the media
How religious broadcasters connect with believers at home.
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Keep Calm and Put Radio On
Simon Mayo, Iain Lee and Linda McDermott on why the DJs will save us.
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World locks down, media steps up
The ingenuity to keep TV and news going - and how esports can fill the void of live sport
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Return of the expert
The media's new respect for scientists
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Panic and the truth
Are journalists reporting coronavirus responsibly?
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The Barclay Brothers, bugs, and The Telegraph
How a family feud complicates the sale of The Daily Telegraph.
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The new wave of political magazines
Why have some intellectual print publications defied the trend and increased sales?
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Fake news, strong views, Yorkshire and me
Yorkshire Post editor James Mitchinson on fighting for journalism and the north of England
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The big money bet on podcasting
As Spotify makes another acquisition, how podcasts went mainstream.
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Has No 10 called time on media scrutiny?
Boris Johnson is accused of avoiding journalists and making his own videos
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Brexit's "done" - so what will the media talk about now?!
How exiting the EU deprives some journalists of their favourite topic.
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Reinventing TV Documentaries
Why factual TV is the new box set to binge on.
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A right Royal PR disaster
Why Harry and Meghan's media strategy failed
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The man driving Jeremy Clarkson
Andy Wilman is exec producer of The Grand Tour and was the creative force behind Top Gear
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The British drama boom
UK producers are capitalising on the global demand for new shows - how long will it last?
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Delete the media?
Yet again the media misread the election. Is it time to rethink political journalism?
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Ronan Farrow's Battle to Report
How the Pulitzer winner picked a fight with an untouchable Hollywood mogul
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Will Amazon deliver a revolution in sports media?
Amazon has the Premier League for December, as big tech flirts with live broadcasting
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The media's criminal obsession
From podcasts to a new magazine, why covering crime pays