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Contextualizing The Penal Press of Eastern State Penitentiary

Episode 23 - Propaganda, Conspiracies and Search Manipulation by Center for Media at Risk

Over a year into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, how are Ukrainian journalism scholars and media makers thinking about the conflict, and where do they see it going next? Annenberg student and Center for Media at Risk steering committee member Liz Hallgren sits down with the Center's visiting scholars, Yevhen Fedchenko, Olena Lysenko and Dariya Orlova to unpack the state of play. Keeping a clear-eyed emphasis on the decade of conflict that led to this tipping point, Fedchenko, Lysenko and Orlova address the pivotal role of media – both in Ukraine and abroad – in the making and breaking of Ukraine’s war effort, including how Ukrainian journalists have managed tensions with their Western counterparts and what changing narratives around the war say about Russia’s grip on the information environment.

In the latest installment of the Center for Media at Risk podcast series, doctoral fellow Roopa Vasudevan speaks with Kelsey Halliday Johnson and Lisa Marie Patzer about art, technology and the rapidly changing world of machine intelligence and vision.

Episode 20.1 - Black Matter Philly: Jolie Means Pretty (In French) by Center for Media at Risk

Episode 19 - How the West Stands in the Way of Syrian Journalism by Center for Media at Risk

Episode 18 - Afghanistan: What Comes Next? by Center for Media at Risk

In this episode, journalists Amanda Sperber and Jack Hewson compare notes on what it’s like to navigate the risks of reporting from Somalia and Iraq respectively, sketching a picture of some of the life of modern freelancing in a conflict. Dealing with militias, learning where it’s safe to stay and finding ways to navigate access to sources and the economics of the job make up part of the difficult work of reporting from the ‘frontlines’ of the the US’ forever war.

Episode 16 - COVID in the African Newsroom by Center for Media at Risk

In this episode, Annenberg doctoral student Sophie Maddocks speaks with leading legal scholar and cyber civil rights advocate Mary Anne Franks, whose 2019 book "The Cult of the Constitution" argues that

fundamentalist interpretations of the Constitution elevate certain rights above others.