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Episodes with the category Academia

Emily Reuben

CEO, Duchenne UK

11th May 2023

Inspired by her son’s diagnosis, fuelled by a career in broadcasting – setting the agenda to find a cure for muscular dystrophy

Jon Wardle

Director, National Film & Television School

8th December 2022

Building the skills of future leaders in television, film – and now gaming

Athena Brensberger

Astronomer and science presenter

22nd November 2022

Inspiring the curious to explore the big questions—the great beginnings of the universe, planet Earth… and life itself.

Carl Zimmer

Science columnist, The New York Times

18th August 2022

The Pulitzer-winning science writer on how Covid journalism is a matter of life and death… and the small question of what it actually means to be alive

Batya Ungar-Sargon

Deputy Opinion Editor, Newsweek

13th January 2022

Challenging mainstream media for turning “woke” – and how it’s “undermining democracy”

Gordon Crovitz & Steven Brill

Co-CEOs, NewsGuard

9th December 2021

Fighting on the frontline against fake news – tackling misinformation and rating the trustworthiness of over 7,000 news providers

Professor Anand Menon

Director, UK in a Changing Europe

26th August 2021

The ‘How to Fix Britain’ TED speaker on how the UK can heal from Brexit division and the global pandemic

Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Historian; expert on authoritarianism, propaganda, abuse of power

8th July 2021

How dictators use corruption, violence, propaganda, and machismo – and the media’s crucial role in beating them

Jay Rosen

Professor of Journalism, New York University

24th June 2021

The “troubled” relationship media and big tech have with democracy

Errin Haines

Editor-at-Large, The 19th*

21st January 2021

Finishing the work of the 19th Amendment – leading a campaigning newsroom covering the intersection of women, politics and policy

Kyle Pope

Editor & Publisher, Columbia Journalism Review

3rd December 2020

The future of press freedom – after four years of direct attack from President Trump

Professor Sir David Omand

Former Director, GCHQ

12th November 2020

Leading GCHQ and the UK’s counter-terrorism efforts – how successive Prime Ministers have tackled threats, and communicated them to the public

John Battelle

Co-Founder & CEO, Recount Media

29th October 2020

A trailblazing career in media and tech innovation – pioneering video journalism along the way

Toby Young

Journalist & campaigner

1st October 2020

The writer and provocateur argues that the government has got it wrong on lockdown – and ‘cancel culture’ makes it harder to speak out

Christophe Deloire

Secretary-General, Reporters Sans Frontières

11th September 2020

Defending journalists – and the public – from “predators of press freedom”

Neil Brown

President, The Poynter Institute

20th August 2020

Supporting journalists with training, advice and insight – and fighting for journalism itself

Dr Fiona Godlee

Editor-in-Chief, British Medical Journal

28th May 2020

The editor of medicine’s most respected journal shares her fears that the COVID-19 pandemic could get worse

David Starkey

Historian and Broadcaster

19th December 2019

Bringing a historian’s analytical eye to broadcasting – and society

Alok Jha

Science Correspondent, The Economist

13th June 2019

The ever-changing world of science journalism – and communicating complex ideas to a mass audience

Raju Narisetti

Professor, Columbia Journalism School

25th April 2019

The role of business journalism in fixing the “dimming light” of US democracy