On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 1806
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
Egypt's Press Suppression, True Crime, and More
How the suppression of a free press in Egypt is reversing the course of the Arab Spring, challenging the conventional wisdom on student debt, a defense of True Crime, and more.
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ISIS's Media Offensive, Online Death Threats, and What NPR Is (and Isn't)
ISIS's Twitter and television offensive, the effects of language on your morals, and what NPR is and what it isn't.
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The Snowden Leaks One Year Later
Our fluctuating interest in Snowden and his leaks one year later, your digital life after death, and the viral photo fiction that changed Tom Cruise's career.
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The Media after a Massacre, Amazon’s War, and Confessions of a Tabloid Hack
The eerie digital afterlife Elliot Rodger left behind, a former "tabloid hack" dishes about tabloids, and the brains behind #YesAllWomen
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TLDR Public Service Announcement
We've been getting reports of technical issues from TLDR fans. Apparently some people are accidentally following Alex Goldman on Twitter and then being deluged with a torrent of awful tweets about c…
Attacking the Koch Brothers, Remembering Rwandan Genocide, and More
A fond farewell to Stephen Colbert's character, remembering the genocide in Rwanda 20 years ago, and a report on the skin lightening industry.
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