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The Kicker

by Columbia Journalism Review

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

100 episodes
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1
Lessons from an Early-Career Journalist
48:17 Mar 12, 2026
2
A Look Back at Covering Gaza for the Post
31:32 Feb 26, 2026
3
Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future
1:13:34 Feb 19, 2026
4
The Letter of the Law, and the Law in Practice
1:02:43 Feb 12, 2026
5
Outlier Media Reimagines What Local News Can Be
51:06 Feb 5, 2026
6
A Veteran of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—and its Long Strike—Prepares for What’s Next
44:53 Jan 29, 2026
7
How the Gawker Trial Was the Gateway to Trump: Examining a political legacy, ten years on.
1:19:30 Jan 22, 2026
8
Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth
44:40 Jan 15, 2026
9
Why You Should Never Marry a Journalist—and Other Lessons from Decades in Media
30:28 Jan 8, 2026
10
Jay Rosen on the Digital Revolution That Wasn’t
41:31 Dec 29, 2025
11
Ben Smith Isn’t Afraid of the Future
36:34 Dec 23, 2025
12
How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs
59:08 Dec 16, 2025
13
The Future of Journalism After Gaza
53:28 Dec 11, 2025
14
Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros
1:05:25 Nov 25, 2025
15
Journalism 2050 - Trailer
1:19 Nov 24, 2025
16
Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics
28:07 Oct 23, 2025
17
Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE
25:26 Oct 10, 2025
18
Elle Reeve on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes
36:00 Sep 19, 2025
19
Garrett Graff Thinks the Press Should Be Taking Trump’s Health Much More Seriously
27:51 Sep 10, 2025
20
Hind Hassan Is Sorry We Didn’t Do More to Make Journalism Safe
28:40 Aug 28, 2025
21
Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?
24:24 Aug 1, 2025
22
What’s the Matter with the BBC?
26:50 Jul 11, 2025
23
The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up
41:35 Jun 25, 2025
24
The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza
24:59 Jun 24, 2025
25
The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East
43:17 Jun 23, 2025
26
What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?
24:15 Jun 17, 2025
27
‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams
30:01 May 29, 2025
28
‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media
32:10 May 9, 2025
29
Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network
29:44 Apr 24, 2025
30
Kai Ryssdal Was America’s Economic Voice of Reason This Week
24:31 Apr 11, 2025
31
Carlos Watson Goes Free: A Surprising Coda to the CJR Podcast
19:55 Apr 4, 2025
32
Molly White Knows You Don’t Understand Crypto
25:04 Mar 28, 2025
33
The Legal War on Journalism
25:04 Mar 12, 2025
34
The Kicker, the Masseuses, and the Price of Doing Sports Journalism
27:37 Feb 27, 2025
35
A Warning from a Hungarian Journalist: ‘Brace Yourself for the Worst’
26:41 Feb 13, 2025
36
CJR’s Jon Allsop on the Return of the Trump Whirlwind
32:55 Jan 31, 2025
37
Coda’s Natalia Antelava on Meta, Trump, and How Journalism Can Survive 2025
30:10 Jan 14, 2025
38
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 3: The Verdict and the Pain
1:03:26 Dec 12, 2024
39
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 2: Built on a Bluff
53:13 Dec 10, 2024
40
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 1: Truth and Mythmaking
42:59 Dec 9, 2024
41
Coming Soon: The Unraveling of Ozy Media
2:16 Dec 5, 2024
42
How Trump Won the Latino Vote: A Deep Dive with CJR Contributor Jack Herrera
28:29 Nov 8, 2024
43
Martin Baron on Jeff Bezos, the Post, and the role of presidential endorsements
24:22 Oct 31, 2024
44
How Trump’s team could craft ‘the narrative’ after the election: NBC’s Ryan Reilly on 2020, and the road ahead
33:21 Oct 25, 2024
45
Hell Gate's Chris Robbins on a manic news cycle in New York
26:16 Oct 9, 2024
46
The power of uncomfortable ideas: Jina Moore Ngarambe on her time at Guernica
39:19 Sep 18, 2024
47
‘That’s how you run a debate!’: 9News’s Kyle Clark on holding politicians accountable
28:25 Sep 4, 2024
48
The long, destructive path of fire: Talking to Source NM’s Patrick Lohmann about a never-ending wildfire season
22:25 Aug 26, 2024
49
1968 all over again? Heather Hendershot and Ted Koppel on a year for the media to remember.
32:52 Aug 15, 2024
50
Kamala Harris steps up: Politico’s Eugene Daniels on a wild month of news
31:06 Jul 25, 2024
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