As we’re recording, the manhunt continues for sovereign citizen Dezi Freeman, who is suspected of killing 2 police officers and injuring a third. We’ll get you up to speed with the details of the incident, the search, and what exactly a sovereign citizen is. We’ll also get you across why the Iranian Ambassador was expelled this week, our Deputy PM Richard Marles’ meetings in Washington (or was it “a happenstance encounter”...) - and some of the many angles to view Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement. In what’s coming up, it’s the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans, and the federal parliament returns next week. 

Links

Claire’s recommendation - Five Days at Memorial

Jodie’s recommendation - The Guardian article on Serena Williams’ sponsorship deal with health provider Ro

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: The six centuries-old art history rules hidden in their engagement photo 

The Funniest Memes About Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement

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Chapters

00:00 - Porepunkah police shooting

07:46 - Iran's ambassador expelled

11:46 - A happenstance encounter

15:45 - Taylor Swift's engagement

19:42 - What's coming up in the week ahead

26:24 - Squiz Recommends

28:17 - Squiz Press

In Paris, Bryce discovers how the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terror attacks focused the minds of French people to the importance of media literacy - such that lessons are now mandated in all French schools. He visits a high school classroom where teens are being taught to tell online fact from fiction, meets the Agence France Presse team of fact-checkers and sits down with a former journalist turned digital literacy advocate whose organisation, Lie Detectors, is tackling misinformation one lie at a time.

Links:

AFP Fact Check

Entre Les Lignes

CLEMI

Mapping the media literacy landscape in France - European Digital Media Observatory

Media & Learning in France

Lie Detectors

Articles:

In France school lessons ask which Twitter post should you trust? - New York Times 
Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers - BBC

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See ⁠Newshounds by Squiz Kids⁠ for information about our media literacy program for primary school children. 

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It's been a rough week for the Australia-Israel relationship… Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is furious about the Albanese Government's decision to recognise Palestinian statehood, and took aim at our PM this week. We also cover where we've landed with Russia-Ukraine after a week of talks about ending the war. And we’ll get you across the key takeaways from the Economic Reform Roundtable, along with Cambridge Dictionary’s Gen Alpha update. In what's coming up, there are a couple of big court dates for both Erin Patterson and Brittany Higgins, and Qantas will release its full-year profit after this week’s record IR fine.

Links

Claire’s recommendation - Ten classic potato dishes ranked from worst to best from Good Food

Jodie’s recommendation - The Family Next Door on ABC iView

The Squiz audience survey report

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Researcher: Nicoletta Hay

Chapters

00:00 - Israel-Australia relations

04:40 - Russia-Ukraine

08:21 - Economic Reform Roundtable

11:58 - Cambridge Dictionary's Gen Alpha update

15:14 - What's coming up in the week ahead

21:56 - Squiz Recommends

Bryce visits Estonia and Finland where he discovers a shared border with Russia has made universal media literacy not just a nice to have, but existential. Interviewing the Estonian education minister, Kristina Kallas and Finnish government officials - he learns that digital literacy is now a priority at all levels of government - including the Ministries of Defence.

Links:

EU DisinfoLab’s Doppelganger

EU Digital Services Act

Estonia Women’s Voluntary Defence Organisation

Estonian Defence League

US Embassy - Estonia - Small Grants Program

Faktisk website

Faktisk media literacy arm, Tenk

NORDIS: The Nordic Hub for Digital and Information Disorder

Finland’s National Audio Visual Institute

Articles:

EU Prepares Major Penalties against Elon Musk’s X - New York Times

Fakitsk: Norway’s media literacy program - BBC

Finnish newspaper hides news reports in online game - The Guardian

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It's a big week for economic news - the Reserve Bank cut interest rates, and next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable has been a big talking point. Westpac CEO Anthony Miller also made waves with his unrelenting work schedule… Then we bundle up 2 big international stories - the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, and the response to Australia’s move to recognise Palestinian statehood. And Taylor Swift has new tunes coming in October - we get into how that was announced. In what's coming up, there’s an infrastructure conference to clock (no, really…) and an exciting air race across the outback. 

Links

Acquired’s podcast episode on Google - Claire’s recommendation

Honestly podcast interview with Amanda Knox - Jodie’s recommendation

ABC TV’s 7.30 interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee

Taylor Swift’s podcast appearance on New Heights

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Researcher: Nicoletta Hay

Chapters

00:00 - Economic round-up

09:38 - Two big international stories

14:03 - What the mushroom murder trial jury wasn't told

18:50 - Taylor Swift's Showgirl era

21:37 - What's coming up in the week ahead

26:40 - Squiz Recommends

29:17 - Squiz Press

Still in New York, Bryce meets with the News Literacy Project’s Darragh Worland, and compares media literacy education notes with the Poynter Institute’s Brittani Kollar. And against a backdrop of government cuts to public broadcasting and media companies buckling to political pressure, he sits down with Michelle Lipkin who’s built a nationwide community of digital literacy educators, inspired by her own painful experience as a victim of one of the worst terrorist attacks the world has ever seen.

Links:

⁠News Literacy Project⁠

⁠News Literacy in America Report⁠

⁠Poynter Institute - Media Wise⁠

⁠National Association of Media Literacy Educators (NAMLE)⁠

⁠Reuters Institute - Digital News Report⁠

⁠Alan Miller: on founding the News Literacy Project⁠

Articles:

⁠Michelle Lipkin and Pan Am 103⁠ - PBS

⁠Paramount, SkyDance deal - CBS⁠

⁠Paramount, CBS, Stephen Colbert + the SkyDance deal - The Guardian⁠

⁠SkyDance pledges to end DEI at CBS and ‘root out bias’ - CNN⁠

⁠Louisiana mandates Ten Commandments in every classroom - BBC

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This week, the Productivity Commission released an interim report that's thrown fuel on the fire of the debate around AI and copyright law. We'll get into what's being proposed and why it's got creatives and media companies up in arms. We also cover off where a Putin-Trump meeting is up to, Tassie's new (and maybe temporary) government, and Tourism Australia's new ad campaign. In what's coming up, the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, the Reserve Bank considers interest rates, and Beijing hosts the world's first World Humanoid Robot Games.

Links

Claire’s favourite internet bird - ⁠Auggie the Quaker parrot⁠

Claire's recipe recommendation - minestrone pasta soup with pork and ricotta meatballs from SMH Good Food

Jodie’s book recommendation - Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell

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Researcher: Nicoletta Hay

Chapters

00:00 - Regulations for AI

09:38 - Potential Putin-Trump meeting

14:01 - Ongoing turmoil in Tassie politics

16:52 - Tourism Australia's new campaign

26:35 - Squiz Recommends

28:54 - Squiz Press

On the eve of a Presidential inauguration, Bryce travels to Washington and New York to meet media literacy advocates and fact-checking organisations nervously assessing their futures. As the FT Correspondent Andrew Jack provides a sobering take on the new US administration and its implications for democracy, a visit to a Manhattan elementary school provides a glimmer of hope. 

Links:

FT for Schools

Take 2 Media Initiative

News Literacy Project

News Literacy in America Report

Student Reporting Labs

NAMLE: National Association for Media Literacy Education

Pulitzer Centre: Journalist Classroom Visits

Articles:

Daron Acemoglu - Standard Oil op-ed in the Financial Times

Trump-era funding cut delivers blow to local journalism as public broadcasting group forced to close - ABC

This is what Russia propaganda looks like in 2024 - NPR

This podcast has been made possible by the Winston Churchill Trust Australia

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It’s been a big week for discussion about recognising Palestine as a state. We'll explain what it means and Australia's position on that complex question. Then, it’s onto the Albanese Government’s announcement that YouTube will be included in the under-16s social media ban. The deadline for Trump's tariffs has passed, so we'll cover where Australia's landed. We also dive into Triple J's Hottest 100 Aussie songs of all time (but, because we like to be efficient, we're doing Claire and Jodie's Hottest 3 Aussie songs…). In what's coming up, the Garma Festival has started in Arnhem Land, the Super Netball Grand Final is on, and Sunday brings Aussie TV's night of stars - the Logies.

Links

Watch Mix Tape on BINGE

Try Crispy Lemon Chicken from RecipeTinEats

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Listen on for episode 1 of our new series ‘The Big Threat’ that looks at how other democracies are equipping their populations to recognise and resist mis- and disinformation, and what Australia can learn from them. It’s a new release this week from The Squiz. 

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Chapters

(00:00) Global push to recognise Palestinian statehood

(09:17) Youtube included in social media ban

(13:28) Trump’s tariff deadline has passed

(20:48) What's coming up for the week ahead

(26:40) Squiz Recommends

(28:30) Squiz Press

Against the backdrop of the devastating LA fires, with a new President in the White House and as Meta announces its retreat from fact checking, Bryce visits San Francisco where public broadcaster KQED is mounting a rearguard action to fight fake news, and meets with Stanford University’s Professor Sam Wineburg - an academic sounding the alarm on a looming global disinformation crisis.

Links:

Sam Wineburg’s book, Verified

Professor Sam Wineburg: Stanford

KQED Youth Media Challenge

Corporation for Public Broadcasting - US

Articles:

Sam Wineburg’s USA Today op-ed

KQED faces budget cuts: $8m 

Cuts threaten public broadcasting in the US

Australian Government: Social media ban for under 16s

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Host: Bryce Corbett

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