Journalism right in your lughole
Three fabulous podcast episodes that are well worth your time.
The last week has been an abundant one in my podcast listening. In particular, three episodes of some of my regular listens are abolustely worth you devoting some time to this week, because they all give really useful insights into the factor reshaping online media and journalism right now.
And, as I have a hellaciously busy day at City St George's today, please enjoy these episodes in lieu of insights from me…
Some comments on comments
The ever-excellent Ctrl Alt Speech podcast, hosted by friend-of-the-blog Ben Whitelaw and Techdirt's Mike Masnick strays into familiar territory, with Ben's thoughts on newspaper comments sections. He's something of an expert, having once run them at The Times, and taught community management with me at City, as it was back then.
Well worth a listen:
Here are the pieces referred to:
Ben Whitelaw
Karl Bode
Open source investigations in 2026
The latest addition to my media podcast diet is Prospect's Media Confidential, hosted by Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber, two ex-newspaper editors of note. This episode, though, is an interview with Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat, one of the leading open source investigations organisations.
A fasicinating look into this critical 21st century journalism skill…
The internet: what went wrong
Lastly, Ezra Klein interviews Cory Doctorow, the coiner of the word “enshittification” and Tim Wu, another of many essential books, including The Age of Extraction talk about the web we lost to the big tech companies, what went wrong, and how we take it back.
Essential.
