Media@Risk

In this episode, doctoral student and producer  Muira McCammon  interviews freelance journalist,  Zoë Beery , about her recent article in the  Columbia Journalism Review , a meditation on the history and future of edit tests. Zoë argues that the contradictions of the edit test are a microcosm of bigger challenges in the world of journalism, such as ongoing w...

In this episode, doctoral student and producer Muira McCammon sits down with  Dr. Paul Farber  and  Dr. Bethany Wiggin  of the  Penn Program of Environmental Humanities , a collective of artists, students, scientists, and educators, whose mission is to generate local and global awareness and engagement in the ways in which stories are told about data. Together they explore...

In this episode, doctoral student and producer Muira McCammon talks to five faculty members at the Annenberg School for Communication about what the term “media at risk” means to them. Prof. Zelizer gives introductory remarks about how the Center for Media at Risk came to be. EXTRAS Read a  recent op-ed  in the  Guardian  about media at risk in America as seen through British e...

In this episode, doctoral student and producer Muira McCammon talks to trans cartoonist Carta Monir about her writing process, the fluidity of technology, and the ways in which comics can serve as a welcoming medium for artists with trans, queer, and non-binary identities. EXTRAS Read  a review of Tittychop Boobslash that Carta wrote for The Comics Journal. Listen  to her ever-popular po...

In this episode, doctoral student and producer Muira McCammon talks to Afef Abrougui about privacy rights in Tunisia and the role journalists play in unveiling the complexities and paradoxes of internet policy debates in North Africa and beyond. EXTRAS Read Afef’s  piece  on Tunisian MPs and their proposed legislation on cyber defamation. Proficient in Arabic? Check out the Tunisian Synd...

In this episode, we’re trying out a new format. We’re calling it an acoustic panel. Doctoral candidate Megan Genovese sent questions to leading voices in the ongoing debates around diversity in the entertainment industries. Each respondent sent in a recording of their responses and we’ve edited them together to make up a virtual panel. We asked our expert panelists about the state of the American...

In this episode, Doctoral candidate  Samantha Oliver  speaks with Professor  Monroe Price  and artist  Cornelia Thomsen  about the opening of an exhibit  Imagery Narrative Propaganda Artists in the German Democratic Republic  located on the 5th floor of the  Annenberg School for Communication  at the University of Pennsylvania. MUSIC “All the Right...

In this episode, Annenberg alum Nour Halabi talks with  Lilie Chouliaraki  and  Minelle Mahtani , two scholars whose work touches on different aspects of the ethics of representation and care. MUSIC “All the Right Things” by Son Lux (intro) “Never Undo” by Morcheeba “Two Thousand and Seventeen” by Fourtet “Rode Null” by Hauschka “Kadourimdou” by Pierre Bensusan  “Postcard Home”...

In this episode, Center for Media at Risk Research Fellow  Sébastien Mort  and Annenberg doctoral student  Jeanna Sybert  sit down with Visiting Scholar  Ruth Ben-Ghiat  to discuss “The Authoritarian Playbook.” From press policies and strategies of repression to personality cults, Ben-Ghiat argues that the best way to understand Donald Trump and his contemporaries is...

In part two, Center for Media at Risk Research Fellow  Sébastien Mort  and Annenberg doctoral student  Jeanna Sybert  continued the conversation with Visiting Scholar  Ruth Ben-Ghiat  to discuss “The Authoritarian Playbook.” From press policies and strategies of repression to personality cults, Ben-Ghiat argues that the best way to understand Donald Trump and his cont...

In this episode Annenberg doctoral student Florence Madenga interviews scholar, activist and media producer Chenjerai Kumanyika. Their conversation touches on the ethics of media production and research on and by people of color. They also discuss the challenges and opportunities for addressing forms of oppression in the contemporary political moment. MUSIC “All the Right Things” by Son Lux (intro...

In this episode, doctoral student  Florence Madenga  interviews NYU professor and press critic  Jay Rosen  about the state of contemporary journalism and protecting the legitimacy of the American press. They also discuss Rosen’s collaboration with the Dutch news site “The Correspondent,” and the endeavor to establish  The Correspondent  as an English-language sit...

Gitmo Media is a new three-part podcast series that examines how we experience and understand the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and its complex history. Produced by Annenberg PhD candidate Muira McCammon and Center for Media at Risk 2018-2019 postdoctoral fellow Daniel Grinberg the series considers how media forms have shaped the perspectives of visitors, personnel and detainees at the site and how th...

Gitmo Media is a new three-part podcast series that examines how we experience and understand the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and its complex history. Produced by Annenberg PhD candidate Muira McCammon and Center for Media at Risk 2018-2019 postdoctoral fellow Daniel Grinberg the series considers how media forms have shaped the perspectives of visitors, personnel and detainees at the site and how th...

Gitmo Media is a new three-part podcast series that examines how we experience and understand the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and its complex history. Produced by Annenberg PhD candidate Muira McCammon and Center for Media at Risk 2018-2019 postdoctoral fellow Daniel Grinberg the series considers how media forms have shaped the perspectives of visitors, personnel and detainees at the site and how th...

In this episode Annenberg doctoral student Roopa Vasudevan discusses the new “Meme Tactics” art exhibition with two of its curators, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Josue Chavez. Their conversation touches on the value of memes as an amplifier for under-heard and under-represented populations. More information on the Meme Tactics exhibition, currently on display at the Annenberg School for Communication, c...

“ I am not a foreign journalist who’s in Syria for a short trip to do some reporting before heading back home. This is my home, and I should force these people to accept who I am. I should once again fight the same battle I had fought as a teenager, this time with strange, armed men in a chaotic corner of my country, known as the most dangerous area in the entire world for journalists. ” ~Zaina Er...

In this episode, Center Researcher Richard Stupart speaks with journalists from newsrooms in South Africa, Nigeria and South Sudan. Ajibola Amzat, Branko Brkic and Isaac Kenyi share about how the pandemic has affected the way media practitioners do their work. This podcast is the second entry in our three-part series spotlighting COVID-19 media in Africa. CREDITS Richard Stupart  is a researc...

“Access is quite complicated. And there’s a huge financial component. And a lot of people, both the Americans and the Somalis, in this case, the Americans, a lot of people from all over the world benefit from that, from that lack of access.” 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 respectiv...

“[Media] is very vulnerable, comparing with other things like schools, like universities, even like telecommunication systems and infrastructures. So the main concern is that if the Taliban is coming, what would be the discipline of the freedom of expression and those who are working with it?” More than a month before the US withdrawal led to the collapse of the country, Center for Media at Risk P...

“ If we actually care about risky speech, if we actually care about the speech of the vulnerable, if we care about speech that does something to make us think twice about the status quo, then those are the kinds of conversations that should be getting a lot more attention as free speech issues. “  ~Mary Anne Franks In this episode, Annenberg doctoral student Sophie Maddocks speaks with leadin...

“Daesh and al-Qaeda, we knew them, we already differentiated them from other groups. That was the end of the story for us. But for the Western countries, it was a war on terrorism and the story of the revolution in Syria became a story of [the] war on Daesh. And that was not our story at all.” Following a year in which the precarity of the free press was thrown in sharp relief, with the Taliban re...

Welcome to  Black Matter , the podcast using media-making to center and celebrate Black joy. Host and creator Chaz Barracks is a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for Media at Risk whose research focuses on Black joy, how to find it and the way Black people talk about it. This is the first in a three-part series that unpacks Black joy from the point of view of local artists and scholars in P...

Welcome to  Black Matter , the podcast using media-making to center and celebrate Black joy. Host and creator Chaz Barracks is a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for Media at Risk whose research focuses on Black joy, how to find it and the way Black people talk about it. This is the second in a three-part series that unpacks Black joy from the point of view of local artists and scholars in...

Welcome to  Black Matter , the podcast using media-making to center and celebrate Black joy. Host and creator Chaz Barracks is a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for Media at Risk whose research focuses on Black joy, how to find it and the way Black people talk about it. This is the third in a three-part series that unpacks Black joy from the point of view of local artists and scholars in P...