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Media Storm Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
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The multi award-winning investigative podcast: this is news that starts with the people who are normally asked last.
Media Storm is an essential guide to today’s chaotic clickbait climate. Every Thursday, journalists Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia storm through the headlines with the most important (and most overlooked) people in the story: the ones living it.
From ‘illegal immigrants’ to sex workers, strikers to prisoners, indigenous groups to trans people, many communities caught in the eye of the media storm are denied a fair voice in the coverage around them. Media Storm restores ‘right of reply’ to underrepresented minorities and equips listeners to take the mainstream media with a pinch of salt.
It's your weekly current affairs round-up - but not as you know it. Featuring cross-platform comparisons, shrewd bullsh*t-radars, and finding the facts behind the fear-mongering, Media Storm is guaranteed to leave you with plenty to talk about.
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SERIES 4 TRAILER
Media Storm returns next week!
Get a taste for what is to come from your essential guide to today’s chaotic clickbait climate.
It's your weekly current affairs round-up - but not as you know it. Featuring cross-platform comparisons, shrewd bullsh*t-radars, and finding the facts behind the fear-mongering, Media Storm is guaranteed to leave you with plenty to talk about.
Out weekly, every Thursday from May 2nd.
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Helena and Mathilda's Little Revolutions
This week, the roles are reversed as your Media Storm hosts become the interviewees!
Helena Wadia & Mathilda Mallinson sit down in conversation with journalist Masuma Ahuja on Little Revolutions, a podcast by Freeda.
Little Revolutions is a series of conversations about the double standards, societal problems, and systemic injustices that feel bigger than any one of us. Every week, guests share relatable little revolutions they’re making in their own lives and the ways in which we can all be changemakers.
Helena & Mathilda discuss setting up Media Storm, what they would say to their younger selves, and give you juicy stories from working inside the mainstream media.
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Media Storm @mediastormpod
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Abortion on trial: Poland and the politicisation of human rights
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Warning: This episode contains mentions of suicide
Justyna Wydrzyñska is appealing a criminal conviction in Poland for sending abortion pills to a desperate woman in an abusive relationship. She joins us in an exclusive interview about feminist solidarity, hope in hard times, and the empty promises of political campaigns.
As almost every country in the world moves to steadily liberalise abortion access and women’s reproductive rights, four male presidents have done the opposite, making radical antidemocratic maneuvers to clamp down on women’s bodily autonomy.
Among them, the USA, where the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and deprived a generation of women of a constitutional right they had always known.
And Poland, where the Law and Justice Party has infiltrated the courts and virtually eradicated legal access to abortion. But October’s historic election overturned their majority, as women and young people flocked to the polls in record numbers. Abortion was centre stage in the campaigns and one woman’s case was at the heart of it all.
As well as Justyna, we hear from Amnesty International UK’s lead for Women’s Human Rights, Chiara Capraro, and US abortion rights activist Renee Bracey Sherman, about worldwide trends and mainstream media misinformation.
This episode is brought to you as part of Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign – get involved: https://tinyurl.com/3usebvje
The episode was created by Mathilda Mallinson (@mathildamall) and Helena Wadia (@helenawadia). The music is by Samfire (@soundofsamfire).
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Impact of Poland’s 2020 abortion restriction: https://tinyurl.com/2whhc5tf
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: https://tinyurl.com/yeykpstx
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S3E12 ‘One man’s terrorist’: Resistance and radicalism in Gaza and Beyond - with Gulwali Passarlay and Zahera Harb
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The war in Gaza involves everyone, as the global community is drawn onto a battlefield of competing sympathies - sympathies that should coexist.
Propagandists, Islamophobes and antisemites alike are pushing black-and-white narratives that feed violence and hate. The independent press should be a bulwark against this.
But we do not think the press are doing enough. Western news media is failing to educate the public about geopolitical biases, and to expose us to worldviews that challenge our own.
We cannot hand our listeners the truth, but we can better equip you to identify it.
In this investigation, Media Storm uncovers firsthand stories of militancy in Northern Ireland and Apartheid South Africa which shine new light on terror and resistance: Tony Doherty, the son of a Bloody Sunday victim who sought justice through the IRA, and Black South African freedom fighters who waged war against the Apartheid. Testimonies of "terrorism" are largely absent from mainstream news. We believe that seeking out human perspectives to explain resistance and radicalism is not only a journalist’s right, but a journalist’s imperative.
We have very special guests joining for our season 3 finale. They challenge listeners to look beyond the Western worldview and teach us how to spot propaganda in the news: former UN Security Council President, Kishore Mahbubani; Lebanese war reporter and journalism professor, Zahera Harb; and Afghan author and political refugee, Gulwali Passarlay.
The episode is created by Mathilda Mallinson (@mathildamall) and Helena Wadia (@helenawadia). The music is by Samfire (@soundofsamfire). Tayyibah Apabhai assisted as researcher.
Learn more
Download Kishore Mahbubani’s free e-book, along with 3.3 million other users: https://mahbubani.net/the-asian-21st-century/
Read Tony Doherty’s autobiography, This Man’s Wee Boy…
…and Gulwali Passarlay’s: The Lightless Sky
Speakers
Tony Doherty @tonydutchdoc
Liberation Struggle for War Veterans, South Africa
Kishore Mahbubani @mahbubani_k
Zahera Harb @HarbZ1
Gulwali Passarlay @gulwali_passarlay
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Live show! 2023's biggest media storms - Luis Rubiales and Spanish football's sexism problem
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This is part three of Media Storm's LIVE SHOW at London Podcast Festival!
Join us as we look back at the biggest media storm's from 2023 - this week, we talk about the ongoing sexism row in Spanish football, after Luis Rubiales 'kissed' football player Jenni Hermoso without her consent following Spain's World Cup win.
With special guests Times journalist Manveen Rana and comedian Athena Kugblenu.
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•Helena Wadia @helenawadia
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Live show! 2023's biggest media storms - Titan submarine impolsion
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This is part two of Media Storm's LIVE SHOW at London Podcast Festival!
Join us as we look back at the biggest media storm's from 2023, including the Titan submersible implosion - and next week, the ongoing sexism row in Spanish football.
With special guests Times journalist Manveen Rana and comedian Athena Kugblenu.
Follow:
•Manveen Rana @ManveenRana
•Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu
•Helena Wadia @helenawadia
•Mathilda Mallinson @mathildamall
•Samfire @soundofsamfire
Get in touch:
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•or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mediastormpod
•or Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@mediastormpod
•like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MediaStormPod
•send us an email mediastormpodcast@gmail.com
•check out our website https://mediastormpodcast.com
Media Storm was launched by the house of The Guilty Feminist and is part of the Acast Creator Network.
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Customer Reviews
Fantastic
Absolutely fantastic podcast. I think of myself as pretty well-informed, but I still learn so much from Matilda and Helena. They manage to cover topics in such an empathetic and careful way, and still come across as authentic human beings rather than robots following a script.
Totally eye opening!
My new favorite show! I can’t get enough of it.
This podcast is fantastic to help you be the Ally you want to be or even open your eyes on issues by hearing the point of view of people that are actually concerned.
It has helped me have much more educated conversations with my family, friends and work colleagues. It also make me want to jump off my chair and get involved!
Well done ladies!
Great premise but nonsense content
If a doctor can’t give health advice to patients because they have to tip toe around the elephant in the room (their weight) then what a sad state of affairs we’ve arrived at. We go to the doctor to hear what we need to hear, not what we chose to. Hard truths and diagnoses delivered often. You can’t be policing doctors about delivering health advice. Utter utter laughably woke nonsense.