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Was she the victim of foul play, an accident, or did she choose to disappear? In this episode of The Vanished, we retrace Diana’s last known movements, strange witness accounts, and the lingering mystery that has never been solved or.. was never meant to be solved.

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The Kicker, the Masseuses, and the Price of Doing Sports Journalism 27:37

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In January, the Baltimore Banner released an investigation into the star kicker of the Baltimore Ravens, in which multiple women accused him of sexually inappropriate behavior during massages, dating back years. (The player denies the accusations.) It was an example of a rare kind of journalism these days: hard-hitting accountability reporting on sports. Over the past several years, numerous investigative sports outlets have folded, replaced largely by soft-focused content produced by players and teams themselves. Small, community-based publications like the Banner face the highest toll for doing this kind of work—boxed out of access from teams, they risk losing a pivotal connection they have with subscribers. But Chris Korman, the paper’s sports editor, says it’s worth it anyway. Read more: *The Banner ’s investigation into Ravens kicker Justin Tucker *From the CJR archives : Can sports journalism survive in the era of the athlete? (2024) Hosted by Josh Hersh Produced by Amanda Darrach…

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A Warning from a Hungarian Journalist: ‘Brace Yourself for the Worst’ 26:41

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András Pethő is a Hungarian journalist and a cofounder of Direkt36 , an independent investigative news outlet. Over the past decade, he’s watched as the government of Viktor Orbán—the world leader whom Steve Bannon once praised as “Trump before Trump”—has systematically eroded the freedom of the press in his country, in ways that may feel familiar to Americans watching corporate news leaders succumb to pressure from the administration. Pethő joins The Kicker to explain why he believes journalists must accept the possibility that the worst is yet to come, while resisting the temptation to turn themselves into martyrs for democracy. “For a while, I thought, This would never happen here ,” he said. “The biggest mistake that I made was the failure of imagination.” Read More: *András’s 2022 essay on the lessons he learned from experiencing Hungary’s crackdown on a free press * Direkt36 ’s latest investigation: a documentary about the secret wealth of Orbán and his allies (with English subtitles) *The New York Times on the fall of Origo , a once-audacious newsmagazine (2018)…

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CJR’s Jon Allsop on the Return of the Trump Whirlwind 32:55

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Jon Allsop writes and edits The Media Today , CJR’s daily newsletter. There, he’s closely watched as the American press has struggled to respond to, and cover, the barrage of news that pours out of Donald Trump. As a frenetic new term begins, Jon joins The Kicker to share his thoughts on what the media gets wrong—and how the political press might begin to chart a new relationship with the presidency and the public. Read More: *Jon’s latest newsletter , on Trump’s first week back in office *Jon’s 2020 essay on how the media handled Trump’s first term *Chris Hayes on attention, on Ezra Klein’s podcast *Susan Glasser on Trump’s exhausting litany of outrages Sign up for The Media Today , CJR’s daily newsletter.…

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Coda’s Natalia Antelava on Meta, Trump, and How Journalism Can Survive 2025 30:10

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Natalia Antelava spent many years as a correspondent for the BBC, before starting her own media company, Coda Story , in 2016. She’s covered wars in the Middle East and the rise of authoritarianism across Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. For the past year, she was a Knight Fellow at Stanford, where she examined how journalism might survive in an era of AI and tech supremacy. Antelava joins The Kicker to talk about Meta’s decision to do away with fact-checking, preparing for a second Trump administration, what mainstream reporters can learn from conservative podcasters—and why she’s still optimistic about what journalism can achieve in the year to come. Read more: “Noise Is the New Censorship” — Antelava on disinformation and authoritarianism “Grieving California” — Coda’s 2018 essay on the Tubbs Fire Hosted by Josh Hersh Produced by Amanda Darrach…

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The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 3: The Verdict and the Pain 1:03:26

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In the finale, Carlos Watson takes the stand—and the jury reaches a verdict. “The Unraveling of Ozy Media” is a special three-part series of The Kicker , on the trial of Carlos Watson and the excesses of the digital media age, presented by the Columbia Journalism Review . Hosted and coproduced by Josh Hersh and Susie Banikarim Produced and edited by Amanda Darrach…

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The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 2: Built on a Bluff 53:13

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How inflating traffic data went mainstream in digital media—and a key witness takes the stand. “The Unraveling of Ozy Media” is a special three-part series of The Kicker , on the trial of Carlos Watson and the excesses of the digital media age, presented by the Columbia Journalism Review . Hosted and coproduced by Josh Hersh and Susie Banikarim Produced and edited by Amanda Darrach…

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The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 1: Truth and Mythmaking 42:59

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Carlos Watson’s media startup arrives on the scene—and insiders reveal a dark reality under its glossy veneer. “The Unraveling of Ozy Media” is a special three-part series of The Kicker , on the trial of Carlos Watson and the excesses of the digital media age, presented by the Columbia Journalism Review . Hosted and coproduced by Josh Hersh and Susie Banikarim Produced and edited by Amanda Darrach…

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Coming Soon: The Unraveling of Ozy Media 2:16

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Starting on December 9, the Columbia Journalism Review presents a special three-part series of The Kicker : “The Unraveling of Ozy Media,” on the dramatic rise and fall of Carlos Watson, the cofounder of the digital media company Ozy. In 2023, Watson was charged with fraud after it was revealed that one of his partners had masqueraded as a YouTube executive, during a call with potential investors. But Ozy’s failure is about more than one man. It’s a story about an era of profligate growth and overpromises in digital media that have left many wondering whether there’s any business model that will work for journalism today. Join hosts Josh Hersh and Susie Banikarim as they follow Watson’s trial and ask how much of digital media was built on a lie.…

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How Trump Won the Latino Vote: A Deep Dive with CJR Contributor Jack Herrera 28:29

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Nearly half of all Latino voters put their support behind former president Donald Trump this week, according to exit polls—a 14 percent increase from 2020. Those results surprised many, but not Jack Herrera, who has been reporting on the shifting voting habits of Latino communities across the country for years. Herrera joins The Kicker to talk about what he’s learned from his journalism in Pennsylvania, Iowa, and the border counties of Texas. Read More: Herrera’s article for CJR’s Election Issue on Lorena López, the editor of Iowa’s La Prensa Herrera’s 2024 reporting on Latino voting in Pennsylvania , Texas , and Iowa…

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Martin Baron on Jeff Bezos, the Post, and the role of presidential endorsements 24:22

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Martin Baron was the executive editor of the Washington Post from 2013 until his retirement, in 2021—which meant he was there for the arrival of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as owner and publisher of the paper. He’s long praised Bezos for taking a firm line against any interference with the paper’s journalism, but Bezos’s sudden decision, announced last week, to torpedo the paper’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris was a bridge too far. In a post on X , Baron described the move as an act of “cowardice” and “spinelessness.” Baron joins The Kicker to speak about his intense reaction to the decision, what he thinks has changed with Bezos—and whether it might be time for papers to retire the presidential endorsement anyway. Read more: Baron’s original statement on the Post’ s decision Bezos’s op-ed explaining why he pushed to deep-six the endorsement A Post news team article investigating the ties Bezos’s companies have to the government—and to a potential second Trump administration Hosted by Josh Hersh Produced by Amanda Darrach…

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How Trump’s team could craft ‘the narrative’ after the election: NBC’s Ryan Reilly on 2020, and the road ahead 33:21

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The so-called Big Lie—that the 2020 election was stolen out from under Donald Trump—was more than just a series of individual false facts and misleading videos. It was a narrative, carefully constructed by people affiliated with the Trump campaign, and disseminated through friendly news outlets and social media channels. Four years later, that story still convinces millions of Trump’s supporters. And as NBC’s Ryan Reilly has reported, it’s one that many people on the former president’s team are already laying the groundwork to repeat this time. Reilly joins The Kicker to discuss how those stories spread, and why many in the media are better prepared to combat them—while others, including some prominent social media platforms, are poised to make things worse. Read more: Ryan’s NBC News article on the 2020 effort to “stop the vote” in Detroit Ryan’s book Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System New York Magazine on the DC jail block run by convicted January 6 rioters Politico on how Trump might try to claim victory no matter what Hosted by Josh Hersh Produced by Amanda Darrach Episode website…

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Hell Gate's Chris Robbins on a manic news cycle in New York 26:16

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New York City is the media capital of the world, but the number of people and outlets covering the city locally has taken a hit recently. Over the past few years, the Wall Street Journal dropped its independent metro section, the New York Times announced it would stop endorsing local races, and the all-news radio station WCBS went off the air. But a number of scrappy upstarts have started filling the void. The City , a digital news nonprofit, has led some of the best coverage of the ongoing scandals in the administration of Mayor Eric Adams. And Hell Gate , a year-old digital publication, is providing a fresh, voicey take on news and culture. Today’s guest is Christopher Robbins, an editor and cofounder of Hell Gate , on the state of news in New York, the latest (at least as of our conversation) fallout from the Adams administration, and how he hopes to keep Hell Gate around for a while. Read more: The Eric Adams Table of Success Hosted by Josh Hersh Produced by Emily Russell…

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The power of uncomfortable ideas: Jina Moore Ngarambe on her time at Guernica 39:19

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In March, the digital literary magazine Guernica published a personal essay by a British Israeli writer and translator, about her experiences in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks. It was raw and honest and painful to read. The writer, Joanna Chen, had spent years before the attacks and subsequent war on Gaza volunteering for an organization that transported Palestinian children into Israeli territory for medical care; after October 7, she found it hard to connect with the work. After the piece was initially published, in March, a number of Guernica staffers—all of them volunteers—expressed outrage that the magazine had published an essay centered on the internal moral agonies of an Israeli, at a time when Palestinians were being brutally killed. The publisher of Guernica pulled the essay; within a month, Jina Moore Ngarambe, the editor in chief, resigned. Today on The Kicker : a conversation with Jina about what she learned from the experience, and why she believes so strongly in journalism’s responsibility to present uncomfortable perspectives. Read more: Joanna Chen’s essay, “From the edges of a broken world” (as republished by Washington Monthly ) Guernica founder Michael Archer’s explanation for why the essay was taken down Jina’s interview with Semafor Hosted by Josh Hersh Produced by Amanda Darrach Audio Mix by William Flynn Episode website…

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‘That’s how you run a debate!’: 9News’s Kyle Clark on holding politicians accountable 28:25

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In late May, Kyle Clark went viral after he moderated a debate featuring six Republican candidates for Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District, including Rep. Lauren Boebert. He refused to allow the candidates to evade his direct questions with waffling, rambly answers, instead repeatedly cutting them off: “You didn’t make any attempt to answer the actual question,” he said at one point. Over the next few weeks, his management of the debate was hailed by everyone from the Poynter Institute to Jimmy Kimmel , who told his national audience, “That’s how you run a debate, right there, like a drill sergeant!” A few months on, Clark has mixed feelings about all the social media fanfare—but he’s happy that his no-nonsense approach to interviewing politicians has caught on. He joins The Kicker ahead of the upcoming presidential debate, between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, to talk about the importance of the media calling out falsehoods, and why local news is central to restoring public trust in the media. Watch the full 9News debate, from May, here . Hosted by Josh Hersh Produced by Amanda Darrach Research by Kevin Lind Episode Website…

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The long, destructive path of fire: Talking to Source NM’s Patrick Lohmann about a never-ending wildfire season 22:25

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