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Media Storm

Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia

The multi award-winning investigative and current affairs podcast: this is news that starts with the people who are normally asked last. Media Storm is an essential guide to today’s chaotic clickbait climate. Every week, journalists Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia storm through the headlines, and seeking out the…

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Media Storm

The Great ADHD Media Myths

Heatwaves and Net Zero: Who sets the climate agenda?

How Britain turned its back on care workers

Jason Arday: Anatomy of a media storm

The local news decline and why it matters

'I don’t do politics': How to fight news fatigue

Bad Think Tanks: How fake facts get into the news

Bad Science: Faux facts, health fads and influencers

Do we need to change the voting system?

News Watch: World Cup rapists - and what really went wrong for Starmer

Ad-funded news: Who pays for hate & clickbait?

Deport. Detain. Deter: The moneymaking anti-migrant machine

Surveillance nation: Palantir, facial recognition and the UK

News Watch: Hantavirus v Ebola. Teenage rapists avoid jail.

Angry Young Women: Did the media manufacture the femosphere?

Foreign interference: Who bankrolled Brexit and Britain’s far-right?

Blame, shame and pain: Maternity, midwives and the media

Global debt crisis: How bankers and billionaires keep countries poor

News Watch: Owen Jones vs the BBC, and what's really behind the move to cut jury trials?

Modern slavery is thriving: the media just isn’t telling you

News Watch: How the Green Party beat Reform, and is war on Iran legal?

The Epstein Files: Survivors in their own words

News Watch: Making sense of the Epstein Files, and will Reform rollback women’s rights?

Should the UK ban social media for under 16s?

News Watch pt.2: Trump's 'new' world order, and who is behind Grok AI deepfakes?

News Watch pt.1: The ICE killings you didn't see, and how do we help Iran?

Q&A Special pt.2: Ask your hosts anything!

Capitalism and clickbait: Who owns the news?

News Watch: Behind BBC ‘bias’, Birmingham football ban, and keeping eyes on Sudan

Fake news! The impact of AI on journalism

‘I want prosecutions’: Should journalists go to prison for Gaza genocide disinformation?

What does anti-abortion and white supremacy have in common?

Q&A Special: Ask your hosts anything!

Piracy & propaganda: Israel ILLEGALLY intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla

Tackling media misogyny: Cheer Up Luv and This Ends Now

News Watch: The UK's radicalised right, Charlie Kirk trans conspiracy, Gaza war is a genocide

Reporting from the Global Sumud Flotilla: A people’s movement

News Watch: Reform’s migrant lies, Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail, and is Rylan racist?

SOAS on strike: Why are university staff refusing to work?

What happened when Issy Vine whistleblew on The Met

ARCHIVE Women in crisis: Is conflict and disaster sexist?

News Watch: Striking doctors' salaries, Islamophobia against Zohran Mamdani, and Japan's far-right surge

War reporters: White saviours or vital journalists?

News Watch: Diddy's domestic abuse, disability-blaming, welfare 'U-turns', Gaza aid traps

What is a woman? Common sense vs culture wars

News Watch: Johnny Depp "Me Too victim", Iran "nuclear bomb", Palestine Action "terrorists"

Why closed borders don't work: Refugees on community solutions

News Watch: LA protests, Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and all sides of assisted dying

AC Grayling: Free speech, Wokeism, and how to save democracy

Is the media responsible for the rise of Reform?

Oil spills in the Niger Delta: Will Shell come clean?

News Watch: Post-Brexit trade deals, Gérard Depardieu convicted, Starmer's immigration speech

S5E10 Female asylum seekers: Healthcare, housing, and the hostile environment

News Watch: Katy Perry blasted, the rollback of LGBT+ rights, and making sense of the ‘Jihadi jail attack’

S5E9 Free Speech: Is it all talk?

News Watch: US protests, Trump's tariffs, and is Lucy Connolly a 'political prisoner'?

S5E8 Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Not your 'revenge porn'

News Watch: ‘Two-tiered justice’ lies, Bournemouth femicide, and blame it on the migrants

S5E7 Sanctions: Do they help or harm civilians?

News Watch: Adolescence, ICC 'white man's justice', and should ketamine be Class A?

S5E6 Pregnant in prison: The case to stop births behind bars

News Watch: Labour's benefit-bashing, Gaza & Yemen airstrikes, and a new nuclear era for Europe

Abuse in academia: Are universities protecting predatory professors?

S5E5 Maternity and paternity leave: Why parents are so angry at politics

News Watch: Trump v Zelensky, Gaza ceasefire sabotage, and the law putting Black boys in prison

S5E4 How to fight polarisation: With Jess & Nathan from Channel 4's Go Back To Where You Came From

News Watch: Palestinian child murder trial, BBC Gaza doc, and is history repeating in Germany?

S5E3 Antisemitism: Israel, Anti-Zionism, and the politics of hate

News Watch: Chagos Islands, GB News queerphobia, and Sweden's mass shooting victims

S5E2 Why does asexuality make the media so angry?

News Watch: Trump’s ‘war on women’s sports’, hostage handovers, and is Labour Reform-ing?

S5E1 Female Genital Mutilation: Can we achieve zero tolerance with zero coverage?

News Watch: Trump’s bid for Gaza, Congo’s conflict, Axel Rudakubana's missed misogyny

ARCHIVE What is the refugee 'crisis'? Plus: Media Storm Series 5 announcement

News Watch: Luigi Mangione mania, Dunkirk shooting, Trump and trans healthcare

News Watch: PinkNews allegations, Syrian asylum claims, and don't forget about Georgia

News Watch: Syria, Sex Workers, 'Sickfluencers', and Gregg Wallace is sorry-not-sorry

News Watch: Another general election, ICC arrests, GRT discrimination, and... Wicked

News Watch: Farmers' 'tractor tax', Trans awareness, Amsterdam attacks