UNDERREPORTED with Nicholas Lemann Podcast
1) 'We Want To Negotiate' with Committee to Protect Journalists' Joel Simon
We're kicking off season two of UNDERREPORTED with guest Joel Simon, who in nearly two decades at the Committee to Protect Journalists has worked on dozens of hostages cases, to delve into the heated ...Show More
2) LIVE from Columbia University: Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
In the last few years, the fracking industry has boomed, leading many—including the President—to declare that soon America will be energy-independent, and free of the influence of foreign oil and gas ...Show More
3) Investor's Field Guide | Bethany McLean – Business Gone Bad and the Art of Persistence
Via "The Investor's Field Guide" podcast | I’ve often heard that good investors are a bit like journalists: doggedly collecting evidence and building an understanding of how all the pieces of a c...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) High-Speed Empire: Journalist Will Doig
Less than a decade ago, China did not have a single high-speed train in service. Now, the Pan-Asia Railway portion of the One Belt One Road initiative could transform Southeast Asia. Will Doig travele...Show More
5) LIVE from Columbia University: Masha Gessen and Misha Friedman
Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen is an outspoken critic of Putin and Trump, and was just named one of the Five Most Important Intellectuals in America Today by The Washington Post. Her new boo...Show More
6) Pipe Dreams: Investigative Reporter Erin Banco
CGR Director Nicholas Lemann sits down with investigative reporter Erin Banco, author of the new book Pipe Dreams: The Plundering of Iraq’s Oil Wealth. When the United States invaded in 2003, the Bush...Show More
7) Emily Witt on Nollywood
Nicholas Lemann sits down with Emily Witt, author of the new book NOLLYWOOD: THE MAKING OF A FILM EMPIRE. Amid electricity cuts, fuel scarcity, and countless other obstacles, Nigerians are pursuing th...Show More
8) Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
This week on UNDERREPORTED, Nicholas Lemann welcomes Atossa Araxia Abrahamian to the studio to talk about her book THE COSMOPOLITES: THE COMING OF THE GLOBAL CITIZEN, published by Columbia Global Repo...Show More
9) Another Fine Mess
On this week's episode of UNDERREPORTED, Nicholas Lemann sits down with Helen C. Epstein to talk about her new book ANOTHER FINE MESS: AMERICA, UGANDA, AND THE WAR ON TERROR. Is America to blame for d...Show More
10) So, what is Columbia Global Reports anyway?
In the first episode of UNDERREPORTED, we bring in the team to talk about Columbia Global Reports' mission, our lessons learned from entering the book business, and populism's role in the German elect...Show More