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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
Going For Broke, Part One: Change Of Address
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, Iowa Public Radio 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
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible (Updated)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today on Making Contact, we present the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The film takes us on the transformational journey of w...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • 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
The Face of Fake News (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Fake news wasn't invented by the Internet. It has long been used as a way to demonize political opponents. -The evolution of White House news man...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WVAS, KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Music That Mends (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Former jail inmates find redemption in writing about the traps and turning points on their paths to imprisonment. David Coogan, editor of the coll...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WTJU, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 12
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
Life of the Law #101: In Studio: Knowledge in a Post-Fact Era
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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At Life of the Law, we’re going to shake things up a bit so our team can jump into the national conversation that’s taking place about the law. We’...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 41:52
Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation”
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this edition, we hear from Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton Universit...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, XRAY.fm, WRIR, and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Great Divide (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Are betting markets are a more accurate predictor than election polls? -The influence of Millennials on the upcoming election. -The vast majority ...

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), WXDU, WLIW, KKRN and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
The Innocence Project (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Deridre Enright, who was the law expert featured in the podcast Serial and is director of the University of Virginia Innocent Project. She speaks ...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KRZA, KWMR, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
TV Can Teach (news feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The highly-anticipated season premiere of “The Americans” airs this week. According to one Virginia historian, the Cold War spy drama could be much...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Ryan Merkley and Creative Commons: Providing Legal Infrastructure for Creative Sharing
From: Arch Street Press
Series: Innovate Podcast
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Tune into our Innovate Media interview with Ryan Merkley, CEO of Creative Commons, to learn about Ryan and how CC provides accessible legal and tec...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 46:43