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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 voices of the most important (and most overlooked) people in the story: the ones living it. From ‘illegal immigrants’ to sex workers, strikers to prisoners, indigenous groups to trans people, many communities caught in the eye of the media storm are denied a fair voice in the coverage around them. Media Storm restores ‘right of reply’ to underrepresented minorities and equips listeners to take the mainstream media with a pinch of salt. It's your weekly current affairs round-up - but not as you know it. Featuring cross-platform comparisons, shrewd bullsh*t-radars, and finding the facts behind the fear-mongering, Media Storm is guaranteed to leave you wi
Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia hosts Media Storm, a news show with 172 episodes published.
Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! There are loosely three main funding models that make up our mainstream media. The first is public service
Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! The EU has just passed a controversial law, hailed by the far-right as the start of "the era of deportations
China, Russia, and... the UK? We’re talking about mass surveillance. Did you know the UK is in the 5 most surveilled countries in the world? AI facial recognition technology is causing alarm for its recent deployment at
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Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! In today’s Media Storm, we dive into the shadow world of dark money and foreign interference seeking to take
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Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Warning: this episode mentions rape, sexual assault and suicide. The UK government is moving to cut jury trials, a
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Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Last week’s by-election in Gorton and Denton saw massive losses for Labour and a massive win for Hannah Spencer of the
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Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Next week on Media Storm, we will be speaking to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, following weeks of coverage that ha
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Like this episode? Support Media Storm on Patreon! In January alone, Donald Trump abducted the Venezuelan President, listed himself as President of Venezuela on Wikipedia, almost launched another tar
Like this episode? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Content warning: sexual assault, mentions of suicide, gunshots Welcome back! Since we were last here, presidents have been abducted, Greenland becam
This week Media Storm hosts Mathilda and Helena answer all your questions - from tattoo regrets to the meaning of truth to who was shagging who in the newsroom. Variety. Join our supporters to ask your questions (and giv
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Welcome to Media Storm's News Watch, helping you get your head around the headlines. We’re taking on the right-wing hit job on the BBC. Why has one of the world’s most trusted news organisations capitulated to dodgy accu
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