David K. Shipler & Daniel Zwerdling have spent their lives investigating thorny and neglected issues, winning journalism’s top awards along the way. Now join Dave and Danny on TWO REPORTERS, as they interview stellar guests about pressing social problems and solutions - and just fascinating stuff - in ways you haven’t heard before. Advisory: Episodes may contain laughing, arguing and moments of irreverence.
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Signup to Generate a PitchDavid K. Shipler & Daniel Zwerdling have spent their lives investigating thorny and neglected issues, winning journalism’s top awards along the way. Now join Dave and Danny on TWO REPORTERS, as they interview stellar guests about pressing social problems and solutions - and just fascinating stuff - in ways you haven’t heard before.
Recent episodes include "Are you following Israel's daily war against Palestinians in the West Bank? / From the archives" (31 October 2026, 42 minutes), "Americans' lives would be better if Trump copied Canada, in some ways, instead of attacking it" (10 October 2026, 41 minutes), and "We hope our elections guru is right: Trump CAN'T steal the elections (at least probably not) / From the archives" (19 September 2026, 48 minutes).
TWO REPORTERS publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 108 episodes.
Booking probability for TWO REPORTERS is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. TWO REPORTERS requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. TWO REPORTERS's contact route on record: public web form.
TWO REPORTERS is a society podcast with 108 episodes published.
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With their government's and military's support, vigilante Israeli settlers are using terrorist tactics to expel thousands of Palestinians from key villages and swaths of land, in order to thwart any prospect that...
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While Trump derides America's closest ally and punishes them with zany tariffs, Canada can make the U.S. look like a backward country. Canadians don't have to pay a penny to get treated for serious illnesses and...
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David Becker - who runs the nonpartisan Center for Election, Innovation and Research - says Trump is trying to sabotage free and fair elections, yes. But David says the election system is so decentralized, and the vast...
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Read Dave's moving new book of short fiction: The Unfinished Sentence And Other Stories . Short stories are the perfect way to celebrate the moments when you're not hectic with work or chores or other daily tasks. Get a...
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An English teacher at Middletown High School in New York State gave students video cameras back in the 1990s, and told them to tell compelling stories. Result: They uncovered illegal dumping of toxic wastes tied to the...
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Use music! Protest songs in the 1960s galvanized a generation - although singer-songwriter Anya Rose and the group Ants on a Log write social action songs to help children in primary school learn about problems from...
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They're speaking African American English, according to linguist Lisa Green at the University of Massachusetts Amherst - in other words, "it's not mainstream English with mistakes." Lisa grew up speaking AAE in...
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Yes! (Danny's writing this) - especially when the author is my co-host, David K. Shipler. Dave's novel, The Interpreter - now out in paperback - takes us into the rice paddies and twisting alleys of Vietnam, right after...
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Since Trump returned to the White House, more than 1750 potential whistleblowers have asked for help from the Government Accountability Project, says GAP - a leading group that gives legal advice to whistleblowers and...
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As astonishing as it might seem - among all the astonishing changes in today’s America - it turns out that there is no legal way to stop Trump from profiteering from his presidency, even when it damages the nation's...
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Trump is calling on Congressional Republicans to "nationalize" elections. His Justice Department is suing states to get their voter rolls. Trump's FBI has raided election centers. Trump's allies are installing election...
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The US government outlawed debtors' prisons in the 1830s, the Supreme Court ruled they're unconstitutional more than 40 years ago, and you'll find sentences like this on the internet: "Today it is illegal to put someone...
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So much for the "greatest country on earth." Recent studies show that if Americans died at the same rate as people do in average European countries, which Trump derides, at least half a million Americans who die each...
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America's prisons house a "staggering number" of convicts who didn't commit the crime but said under duress that they did - so says our guest, lawyer Alan Hirsch, who testifies in trials across the country as one of the...
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When you learned in school about the fabled drama of Robert E. Peary and Frederick Cook - how they raced each other to be the first explorer to reach the North Pole - did your teachers explain that this was an early...
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An English teacher at Middletown High School in New York State gave students video cameras back in the 1990s, and told them to tell compelling stories. Result: They uncovered illegal dumping of toxic wastes tied to the...
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Shekar Krishnan just got re-elected to the New York City Council, with more than twice as many votes as his opponent - which is good news for Zohran Mamdani, the newly-elected mayor, because he'll need progressive...
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Now that Judge David S. Tatel has retired from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, he feels freer to warn us all: the Supreme Court is threatening America's democracy by inventing spurious legal doctrines...
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In this moving episode, David Tatel, who retired last year from the U.S. Court of Appeals, describes with his wife Edie how he gradually went blind - and struggled to hide it from friends and colleagues alike. David...
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Answer: probably zero. As astonishing as it might seem among all the other astonishing outrages in today’s America, it turns out that there is no legal way to stop Trump’s unprecedented financial profiteering from his...
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award-winning tech founder and media strategist, CEIR (Center for Election Innovation & Research)
Vice President of Family Support Services, Catholic Charities Eastern Washington
retired federal court of appeals judge
Sound Designer / Editor / Director / Legend of Film
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