The Listening Post

Specials

Listening Post is Al Jazeera English's weekly media review show. It casts a critical eye over not just what gets reported, but how it's reported - covering the coverage of the news & analyzing global events through the prism of the media.

Where to Watch The Listening Post • Specials

12 Episodes

  • Jose Marti: What the revolutionary means to Cubans
    E1
    Jose Marti: What the revolutionary means to CubansJournalists in Cuba and Miami tell us what the famous journalist represents for both sides of the Cuban story.
  • Chronicles from the press centre in Havana
    E2
    Chronicles from the press centre in HavanaBehind the scenes of the meeting between Obama and Castro - a look at what divides and unites Cuban and US journalists.
  • Is it our fault that we don't care about Lahore?
    E3
    Is it our fault that we don't care about Lahore?If news is what stands out from the normal, then we need a new normal.
  • Q&A: Julian Assange on the Panama Papers
    E4
    Q&A: Julian Assange on the Panama PapersThe WikiLeaks founder speaks to Richard Gizbert about secrets, leaks and why all 11.5 million files should be published.
  • Behind the Panama Papers
    E5
    Behind the Panama PapersInvestigative journalist Gerard Ryle talks about the reach of the story and the journalistic collaboration behind it.
  • Perspective: Panama Papers and ‘responsible’ journalism
    E6
    Perspective: Panama Papers and ‘responsible’ journalismJournalistic collaborations reporting the Panama Papers should be open to aid from beyond the commercial news industry.
  • The story that is dividing Malaysia's media
    E7
    The story that is dividing Malaysia's mediaThe editor of the Malaysiakini website on how a corruption scandal is shaking the government and challenging the media.
  • Mafia and media: The reporters working a deadly beat
    E8
    Mafia and media: The reporters working a deadly beatThe mafia has changed, but Italian journalists covering organised crime still face threats - of death or lawsuits.
  • Manufacturing consent in Indian-administered Kashmir
    E9
    Manufacturing consent in Indian-administered KashmirMedia warfare is at the heart of the state's approach to Kashmir - and in the digital age, that means social media, too.
  • Journalism, identity and what Stuart Hall taught me
    E10
    Journalism, identity and what Stuart Hall taught meStuart Hall 'taught me how Britain was founded on race and class - and how the media were central to those structures'.
  • Reading Latin America through Edward Said
    E11
    Reading Latin America through Edward SaidMedia and the politics of representation in Latin America, from the 'perfect Latin American' to the 'authentic' one.
  • Roland Barthes in Egypt: Authors and Authoritarianism
    E12
    Roland Barthes in Egypt: Authors and Authoritarianism'The reader gives life to the text - and where media has been reduced to the work of propaganda, hope lies there.'

 

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