Media@Risk

We are in uncharted waters. Intimidation threatens media practitioners worldwide, and disinformation campaigns destabilize public trust. The Center for Media at Risk convenes scholars and practitioners to strategize in response to the multiple risks threatening media freedom. We believe that knowledge is power: Knowing how media practitioners work under the uneven power dynamics posed by authoritarian, racist, misogynist, homophobic, classist and settler-colonialist regimes helps us to defend media freedom everywhere.

Media@Risk is a science podcast hosted by Media@Risk, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #4

  Carta Monir Talks Trans Comics

  Jun 19, 202516 minS0

  <p>In this episode, doctoral student and producer Muira McCammon talks to trans cartoonist Carta Monir about her writing process, the fluidity of technology, and the ways in which comics can serve as a welcoming medium for artists with trans, queer, and non-binary identities.</p><h4>EXTRAS</h4>Read a review of Tittychop Boobslash that Carta wrote for The Comics Journal.Listen to her ever-popular podcast, We Should Be Friends.Reflect on the history of “third genders” in Indonesia by checking out this Atlas Obscura articlePeruse this incredible roundup of trans, queer and non-binary comics published by Buzzfeed in 2017.Give yourself...

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  Episode #3

  What in the World Does "Media at Risk" Mean?

  Jun 19, 202518 minS0

  <p>In this episode, doctoral student and producer Muira McCammon talks to five faculty members at the Annenberg School for Communication about what the term “media at risk” means to them. Prof. Zelizer gives introductory remarks about how the Center for Media at Risk came to be.</p><h4>EXTRAS</h4>Read a recent op-ed in the Guardian about media at risk in America as seen through British eyes.Learn about how a Chicago dive bar exposed corruption and changed journalism.Become acquainted with the etymology of the word “risk” according to Wikidictionary.Check out Barbie Zelizer’s article in the European Jour...

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  Episode #2

  Born in the Schuylkill River

  Jun 19, 202520 minS0

  <p>In this episode, doctoral student and producer Muira McCammon sits down with Dr. Paul Farber and Dr. Bethany Wiggin of the Penn Program of Environmental Humanities, a collective of artists, students, scientists, and educators, whose mission is to generate local and global awareness and engagement in the ways in which stories are told about data. Together they explore a unique project at Data Refuge and consider the ways in which climate media is at risk in the 21st century.</p><h4>EXTRAS</h4>Go deep into the history of Data Refuge.A brief tutorial on how to pronounce “Schuylkill River” fo...

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  Episode #1

  The Enigmatic Edit Test

  Jun 19, 202519 minS0

  <p>In this episode, doctoral student and producer Muira McCammon interviews freelance journalist, Zoë Beery, about her recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review,a meditation on the history and future of edit tests. Zoë argues that the contradictions of the edit test are a microcosm of bigger challenges in the world of journalism, such as ongoing workforce precarities and diverging attitudes towards journalists’ rights. Muira, a former freelance journalist herself, also considers the power of unionization and ways in which editors can strive to act more ethically, when hiring new writers.</p><h4>EXTRAS</h4>Read Zoë Beery’s original piece...

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  Episode #9

  The Authoritarian Playbook Part 1

  Jun 19, 202531 minS0

  <p>In this episode, Center for Media at Risk Research Fellow Sébastien Mort and Annenberg doctoral student Jeanna Sybert sit down with Visiting Scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat to discuss “The Authoritarian Playbook.” From press policies and strategies of repression to personality cults, Ben-Ghiat argues that the best way to understand Donald Trump and his contemporaries is by looking at him in the context of a century of authoritarian rulers from Mussolini onward.</p><h2>MUSIC</h2><p>“All the Right Things” by Son Lux (intro)</p><p>“Ymir” by Dawn of Midi</p><p>“Atlas” by Dawn of Midi</p><p>“Dysnomia” by Dawn of...

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