The 3 Best Question Everything with Brian Reed Podcast Episodes
1) 1: The Critic
Brian talks to a fellow journalist who called his most well-known work “morally indefensible.” You can read Gay Alcorn’s column here. Subscribe to our newsletter to read Gay’s full reaction to this e...Show More
2) And The Award Goes To...The Circuit Court of The Nineteenth Judicial Circuit In and For Okeechobee County, Florida
Ben Smith tells the story of the strange controversy over a journalism award that’s been going down in a Florida courthouse. Ben is Editor-in-Chief of Semafor and co-host of the Mixed Signals podcast...Show More
3) Why was this district attorney hiding from me in his office ten feet away?
Journalists jailed for an article they published. In America. How did this happen? Brian tells the story of a reporting trip he took to Alabama, where two small-town journalists had been locked up, ...Show More
4) A Government Whistleblower Trusts a Newsroom, Ends Up in Prison
When NSA contractor Reality Winner leaked proof that Russia had tried to break into the U.S. election system, she thought she was helping her country. Instead, she got the longest federal prison sente...Show More
5) How Trump is Capturing America’s Media – Without a Coup
Veteran foreign correspondent Natalia Antelova has spent 15 years reporting from places where authoritarian regimes have “captured” the media. In other words, they control the dominant mes...Show More
6) TikTok Stars on the Politicians Begging Them for Exposure
What happens when TikTokers replace TV hosts and interviewers, and presidential candidates start begging to be on their shows? Brian Reed sits down in a Brooklyn wine shop with four of the internet&rs...Show More
7) ‘I Believed Sandy Hook Was a Hoax’
Kate grew up believing the Sandy Hook school shooting was an elaborate false flag operation. For years she thought the 20 elementary school children and six educators who were killed that day did not ...Show More
8) Betraying a Friendship to Get a Viral Story
This episode of Death, Sex, and Money is a recommendation from our contributing editor Jen Kinney. When blogger AJ Daulerio broke the Brett Favre sexting scandal in 2010, it became one of the bi...Show More
9) The Film the BBC Wouldn’t Air
Two veteran journalists set out to document Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system: hospitals attacked, medical workers killed, doctors detained without charge. The BB...Show More
10) Brian Takes on Big Tech
When late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was forced off the air, it raised huge questions about who really controls what we’re allowed to say. From billionaires and politicians to social media platform...Show More