The Dissenter Update
A show that provides regular updates and discussion of the United States government's war on whistleblowers, attacks on freedom of the press, and the extent to which officials go to hide their actions.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2025
Putting Profits Ahead Of Press Freedom (With Jeff Cohen)
Host Kevin Gosztola is joined by guest Jeff Cohen, the founder of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), the co-founder of RootsAction.org, and author of “Cable News Confidential: My Misadventure…
Dying Gaza Journalists And The Western Media's Complicity
Host Kevin Gosztola discusses the role of Western prestige media organizations in the mass starvation and death that the world is witnessing now in Gaza. In particular, as with families and their chi…
ICE Is a Press Freedom Issue (With Tina-Desiree Berg)
Host Kevin Gosztola talks with Los Angeles-based journalist Tina-Desiree Berg about ICE and the threat they pose to freedom of the press. Tina-Desiree and other journalists recently won an injunction…
Trump Administration's Reliance On Lie Detectors
Host Kevin Gosztola speaks with George Maschke, a former U.S. Army interrogator and reserve intelligence officer, about the Trump administration's reliance on lie detector tests to enforce secrecy. M…
Imprisoned For Leaking Israel's Plans To Strike Iran
Chip Gibbons, policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent, joins host Kevin Gosztola for to further discuss the case against CIA analyst Asif Rahman, who was sentenced to three years and a month…
Defense Employee Arrested In FBI Sting
Host Kevin Gosztola discusses the FBI sting operation that led to the arrest of a Defense Intelligence Agency employee, who allegedly agreed to trade state secrets for citizenship in Germany because …
Navigating Our Algo-Controlled Media Landscape
Host Kevin Gosztola is joined by Andy Lee Roth, a Project Censored editor at large, for a conversation about Big Tech algorithms and how they determine what content we see. Andy goes on to share the …
Trump's 100 Days Of Attacks On Transparency And The Press
Host Kevin Gosztola marks President Donald Trump's first 100 days in his second term. He is joined by two guests from the Freedom of the Press Foundation —Seth Stern, the advocacy director, and Laure…
Tesla Whistleblower Wins Legal Victory, Calls Musk A 'Vindictive Monster'
Host Kevin Gosztola highlights the case of Tesla whistleblower Cristina Balan. She recently won an appeal against Tesla and the company's CEO Elon Musk. This victory in her legal battle could lead to…
Dismantling Freedom Of Information
Host Kevin Gosztola highlights the crisis that is growing as offices that are supposed to fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests are dismantled or significantly impaired. He features a few clips…
Boeing Says Attacks On Whistleblowers All Part Of The Past
In this edition of "The Dissenter Weekly," host Kevin Gosztola focuses on the unbelievable claim put forward by Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg that whistleblower retaliation at Boeing is entirely a thing o…
Abducted For Writing An Op-Ed In A Student Newspaper
Host Kevin Gosztola focuses on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents abducting Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk in Massachusetts and how standing up for Ozturk is important to f…
Trump Ramps Up Government Secrecy
While we're only 50 days into President Donald Trump's second term, we've already seen how the administration is expanding secrecy beyond what was observed under Biden—and even Trump's first term.
Lau…
Fox News Whips Up Support For Prosecuting Reporters
In this edition of the "Dissenter Weekly," host Kevin Gosztola focuses on the Fox News network's push for leak prosecutions against media sources at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the …
Trump Administration And The Weaponizing Of Distrust Toward US News Media
In this special edition of the "Dissenter Weekly," host Kevin Gosztola talks with Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored about how President Donald Trump's administration has weaponized di…
Trump Vs. Head Of US Whistleblower Agency
For this edition of "The Dissenter Weekly," host Kevin Gosztola outlines the battle that President Donald Trump is waging over the head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).
Trump fired OSC chief Ha…
A Star Chamber For Journalists?
Host Kevin Gosztola focuses on a proposed bill [PDF] in the state of Hawaii that would effectively establish a star chamber for journalists. Now, the legislation calls it an "ethics review board," bu…
Why Did CIA Analyst Asif Rahman Do It?
Chip Gibbons, the policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent, joins host Kevin Gosztola to further discuss the Espionage Act prosecution against CIA analyst Asif Rahman. Rahman pled guilty to v…
Tulsi Gabbard's National Security Sin, Kash Patel's 'Enemies List'
Host Kevin Gosztola responds to some key moments that occurred during the Senate confirmation hearings for Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director nominee Kash Patel.
Tracking Trump's Threats From Day One
Kevin focuses on what Reporters Without Borders described as the "unprecedented scope of threats" posed by President Donald Trump's administration. He discusses what The Dissenter Newsletter will be …