On the Media
WNYC Studios • History, News, Science
WNYC Studios • History, News, Science
On the Media
WNYC Studios • History, News, Science
WNYC Studios • History, News, Science

About

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.

Episodes

  • Can a Billion Dollars Buy an Election?
    ​​Trump lashes out at mega donors, Democrats embrace dark money, and whether or not big money helps win an election.
  • ‘The Apprentice’: Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Pursuit of Power
    A new film shows how Donald Trump developed his political playbook from attorney Roy Cohn.
  • The Presidential Election That Put Fox News On the Map
    Slow Burn traces how a cable news channel became a cultural and political force.
  • A Storm of BS In The Wake Of Hurricane Helene
    Relief efforts and local officials have faced an onslaught of false claims online from conservative politicians and conspiracy theorists
  • A Reporter’s View From Beirut, and a New Film Plumbs the Depths of Netanyahu’s Corruption
    The media landscape in Lebanon; a new film exposé on Netanyahu; the state of book censorship.
  • "It Happened Here 2024" A new radio play starring Edie Falco and John Turturro
    Episode one of a brand new 6-part radio play, "It Happened Here, 2024" starring Edie Falco, John Turturro and Tony Shalhoub
  • Election Lies Are Fueling Voter Suppression. Plus, Newsrooms Brace for Election Night
    Uproar over 11th-hour election rule changes in Georgia has put the state back in the national spotlight. Plus, what to expect in the aftermath of election night.
  • OTM Presents Ep. 1 of Slow Burn's The Rise of Fox News: We Report. You Can Suck It.
    When Fox News launched in 1996, critics called it “disorganized, incompetent, and laughably inept”. And during that election cycle it barely registered. But everything changed in 2000, when Fox News called Florida (and the presidency) for George W. Bush before any of the other networks. Potentially altering the outcome of the election in Bush’s favor.Our midweek podcast this week is episode one of the new series of Slow Burn from Slate which takes that pivotal moment as its starting point to examine the place FOX News has carved out in our culture. The series traces the channel’s surging popularity in those early years, and profiles a bunch of people who rose up to try and stop it. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
  • The Trump Campaign Continues to Spew Lies about Springfield. Plus, Support for Political Violence Is On the Rise.
    Why reporters covering the Haitian diaspora felt trouble brewing long before Springfield, Ohio, and a look at the past and present of political violence.
  • Taylor Swift's Endorsement and the Role of Music in Politics
    Exploring the role of music in today’s presidential campaigns.
  • Is Kamala Harris’ Press Strategy Depriving Voters — Or Just Journalists? Plus, Understanding Election Polls.
    Will Harris grant the press more access, and should we trust the polls (again)?
  • Not an Internet Error: How 404 Media Aims to Shake Up Online Journalism
    Looking at 404 Media, a worker-owned outlet, a year after they were founded.
  • The Media Are Going Easy On Trump and Russia is Going All In On Right-Wing Media
    A press struggling to cover the Republican nominee, and influencers join Russia’s payroll
  • Brooke and Micah Have Something To Tell You
    An important update about how we do business here at OTM
  • How to Read a Presidential Candidate
    Getting to know presidents through memoirs, journalism, and fiction.
  • How Apple Shaped Podcasting
    And how a recent update caused ripple effects across the industry.
  • Freedom! Joy! Forward! The DNC’s Fave Buzzwords, Explained
    The party debuts a new messaging strategy.
  • Echoes of 1968 at the DNC in Chicago
    The Chicago DNC everyone wants to forget (not this one).
  • The Rise and Fall of Alt-Weeklies, and Journalism in an AI World
    The story of how The Village Voice changed journalism, and a peek inside the AI clickbait industry taking over old news websites.
  • Dan Taberski on His New Series "Hysterical"
    Dan Taberski, host of the new podcast series "Hysterical," investigates a medical mystery in a small town and how it was shaped by a media frenzy.