Season Two Finale: Is This Thing On?
For our season two finale, Emily and Heather are joined by "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" writer Mike Drucker to talk about all things com...
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Tricky
Disentangling journalism’s messiest problems. Heather Chaplin and Emily Bell tap the biggest brains in the business and beyond to tease out where we go from here. From the Journalism and Des...
Episodes
20 of 22 episodes'The Digital Maginot Line' and the Future of Information Warfare
In "The Digital Maginot Line", Mozilla fellow and disinformation expert Renée DiResta argues that perpetrators of information warfare have s...
And The (Tech) Beat Goes On
In the past few years, coverage of Silicon Valley in the press has shifted away from techno-utopian boosterism towards increasingly critical...
The Rise of Unions in Digital Media
Gawker unionized in 2015, setting off a wave of digital newsroom organizing, invigorated by layoffs and politics that leave journalists feel...
Print Is Dead! Long Live Print!
BuzzFeed, Vice and other leaders in digital media have laid off over 2,000 people so far this year. It seems that nobody can bring in enough...
Can We Count on Audience Metrics?
How do we measure the reach and impact of online journalism? Does audience data belong in the newsroom? The meaning of audience metrics is o...
Platforms & Publishers, Part 2: "We Damaged Our Souls"
In the second part of Tricky's deep-dive into the relationship between news publishers and tech platforms, Jezebel founding editor Anna Holm...
Platforms & Publishers (Name A More Dysfunctional Duo)
Writer and journalism professor Anjali Khosla joins Heather and Emily to talk about how we got this fraught relationship between tech platfo...
The Jam-Packed Post-Election 'What Does It All Mean?' Special
Emily and Heather discuss the fallout from the White House sharing a doctored video of Jim Acosta's heated exchange with President Trump. Th...
Justice for Jamal Khashoggi
Journalist Mehdi Hasan joins Heather and Emily to discuss Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder and explore what its coverage says about...
Season Two Starts Next Week
Emily and Heather are back with a new season of Tricky! Starting Nov. 2, we'll unbox the news of the week and untangle the knottiest problem...
What Are Journalists For?
On the finale of the first season of Tricky, Emily and Heather are joined by media critic and NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen to discuss...
Credibility Ratings Dive
How many fact-checking organizations does it take to change the proverbial fake news lightbulb? Elon Musk thinks we need at least one more....
The Unraveling of Univision
Heather and Emily are joined by David Uberti of Splinter News, one of the authors of "Univision is a Fucking Mess" about his employer. But,...
A Bonfire of Hot Takes
Emily and Heather consider what place opinion journalism has in public discourse today. With Jeet Heer of The New Republic, and Katie Kingsb...
Infocalypse Preppers
Heather and Emily hunker down in the journalistic equivalent of a nuclear bunker with Storyful's Mandy Jenkins and design technologist Rick...
What's in the Sinclair Broadcasting box?
A perverted sex act in a company-owned Mercedes, and a shriveled local media ecosystem. Heather and Emily are joined by Washington Post medi...
Propaganda and pink hair
Heather Chaplin and Emily Bell talk to Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale, about misinformation, conspiracy theories, and how jo...
Don't read the comments
In this episode of Tricky, Heather and Emily talk to Sarah L. Roberts, the woman who coined the term "commercial content moderation," about...
Facebook is broken. Should we hop on the Blockchain?
Facebook's 35 mentions in the 37-page indictment of 13 Russian nationals solidified the social network's position at the center of our curre...