Don’t Bury the Lede takes you inside journalism: the decisions, the pressures, and the people behind the stories shaping what you see every day. Hosted by award-winning journalists Jenna Flanagan and Domenic Camia, the show pulls back the curtain on how the news really works, why public trust has fractured, and what’s at stake for democracy when facts are harder to agree on. Through candid, insightful, and often funny conversations with journalists, editors, creators, and media thinkers, Don’t Bury the Lede explores the future of news in a rapidly changing digital world.Events make news. People make journalism.New episodes every week.
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Recent episodes include "Who Makes the News?" (8 December 2025, 57 minutes), "Can TV News Be Fixed?" (22 November 2025, 53 minutes), and "The Emotional Toll of Journalism" (17 November 2025, 58 minutes).
Don't Bury the Lede publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 56 minutes across 68 episodes.
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Don't Bury the Lede is a news podcast with 68 episodes published.
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The news isn’t just in the hands of reporters anymore. Commentators and influencers cover the news too, and the lines between them get blurrier every day. So who even counts as a journalist today? For answers, Dom and...
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We’re back! 🎙️ Welcome to Season 3 of Laid Off and Looking with award-winning journalists Jenna Flanagan and Domenic Camia. In our season 3 opener, Jenna and Dom share how we spent our summer, the challenges of...
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Jenna and Dom break down the backlash over Jake Tapper’s new book Original Sin, co-written with Axios’ Alex Thompson. It examines former President Joe Biden’s decline and if the press looked the other way. It’s pushed...
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The Knicks stunned the Celtics and Jenna’s still recovering, but the show must go on! This week, Jenna and Dom look at two viral interviews gone sideways- one with former NFL coach Bill Belichick, the other with White...
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The white smoke rose and suddenly... history. In this week’s episode, Jenna and Dom react in real time to the surprise announcement of the first American Pope, Leo XIV. They take you behind the scenes to show what it’s...
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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner skipped the comedian this year, and the whole thing felt... weird. Jenna and Dom talk about what that choice says about the state of the press, whether the decision was more about...
President Trump’s coming for NPR and PBS! Jenna and Dom get into what’s behind the push to pull their funding, and why it’s part of a bigger culture war play. Why does “60 Minutes” always seem to get under Trump’s skin...
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Bill Maher reports back on his dinner with President Donald Trump, saying “everything I’ve ever not liked about him was… absent.” Jenna and Dom are left scratching their heads wondering, wait, what? The Associated...
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Jenna and Dom are back from a brief break and boy did a lot happen! They unpack the leaked Signal chat between Trump-era officials that’s raising questions about national security, and who gets prosecuted when lines are...
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