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Is Objectivity Essential to Journalism?
From: Open to Debate
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For decades, objectivity has been cited as journalism's gold standard, promising that journalists would stick “to the facts" and deliver both sides...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Asian Americans & Anti-Blackness: Truth vs. Fiction on Affirmative Action (August 2, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Affirmative action's foes worked with conservative Chinese American organizations to sue two colleges over their admissions processes. The result w...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Queens Memory Podcast- Seeing Signs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The "Little Manila" Mabuhay mural, represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a sky-blue field on the wall of Amazing Grace Restaurant, evoking the taste and fragrance of the Filipines. Calamansi fruits and sampaguita blos, Credit: Jake Hofileña
This episode is from the Queens Memory Podcast, a project archiving stories from Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino enclave dating ba...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
John Donvan in Conversation with Mehdi Hasan
From: Open to Debate
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How can we argue in good faith, communicate confidently, and uncover new ideas through debate? Journalist, broadcaster, and best-selling author Meh...

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Going For Broke, Part Two: Making Up Our Minds
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Abbott Elementary Teaches Us All: Sheryl Lee Ralph & Joyce Abbott
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can you remember the last time when the challenges that inner city public school teachers face were the subject of a popular TV series? Abbott Elem...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Jerusalem Calling from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We bring you a piece from our partner Kerning Cultures about the Palestine Broadcasting service. We revisit the history of the station and its role...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Help with Unvaccinated Adult Daughter & Holding Journalists Accountable
From: Chuck Wolfe
Caption: Protect your loved ones
Norm, like many others, is struggling with how to relate to his adult daughter who refuses vaccination. Bob has an idea for how to stop, or at leas...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 39:38
The Psycology of the Covid-19 Health Crisis. A look at Mental Health and Media Use with Clinical Psycologist Dr Russell Bourne
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Psycology of the Covid-19 Health Crisis. A look at Mental Health and Media Use with Clinical Psycologist Dr Russell Bourne. In practice for ove...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 13, 2021
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
Disney & "Cultural Depictions," Perfectionism, and Curiosity
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: This Content May Contain Outdated Cultural Depictions. Topic 2: Can Perfectionism Be Toxic? Topic 3: How Much Is Too Much? When Curiosity ...

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 51:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Far Side, Feral Pigs, and Tree Thieves
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: The Far Side's Enduring Popularity. Topic 2: Feral Pigs are Destroying Wildlife. Topic 3: How to Catch a Tree Thief: Timber Poaching in th...

Bought by KOWS


  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 51:36
  • Purchases: 1
Take Back the App!
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, Laura talks with coders, activists and tech entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the platform cooperative movement. If we take the ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reporting on Economic Hardship
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Peacemaking in Hip Hop Music
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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In this episode of Peace Talks Radio, Hannah Colton explores peacemaking in hip hop culture and history with one documentarian and one artist - Hip...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
State Representative Gene Pellowski
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique we talk with state representative Gene Pellowski about our states house sessions, state bonding bill, insurance r...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 19:47
IU's New Media School Introduces Documentary Production and Research Practice
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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A new center supporting documentary film production and research has been established at Indiana University's Media School.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 09:45
Proofiness
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Charles Seife
Numbers can be deceptive … we know this. Yet, in spite of how sophisticated we think we are, we still can be taken-in by numbers. Sometimes we’ll e...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Chris Goldstein interviews Steve Bloom: eBay pulls High Times and CBS says no to NORML
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Pot Culture book
Back issues of High Time magazine were pulled from eBay and CBS turned down a Times Square advertisement from NORML: Chris Goldstein interviews Ste...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2010
  • Length: 13:54
How Real Is Virtual?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Virtual worlds are online environments in which users interact via self-designed persona called avatars. Virtual reality can be entertaining and ed...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:33
Team of Rivals
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Ever since the election -- or even further back, when Barack Obama chose former rival Joe Biden as his running mate -- the blogosphere and the pund...

Bought by WCNY and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 11, 2008
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 2
Active Voice Radio 7-23-08: Judy Polumbaum- China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism PART 2
From: Chris Goldstein
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Judy Polumbaum interviewed 20 Chinese journalists about their life and craft, opening a unique window into this major media producer.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2008
  • Length: 29:30