Coming Soon: Tricky Season Two
Just in time for midterm mayhem, fearless podcast hosts Heather Chaplin and Emily Bell have returned to untangle journalism’s knottiest problems in season two of Journalism + Design’s Tricky. Season one saw...
A Podcast About the Thorniest Problems in Journalism
HOSTED BY EMILY BELL + HEATHER CHAPLIN
Journalism may be a pillar of democracy, but how can it compete with the persuasive design tactics that serve up everything from Instagram posts to dating apps? Examining persuasive design through the lenses of psychology, anthropology, ethics and history, Emily and Heather try to unpack what the attention economy is doing to journalism and to society.
Tricky is on hiatus until further notice. You can find past episodes on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
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 the reporting that exposed the...
Journalist 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. But maybe fact-checking should function more like...
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, seeking silver linings wherever they...
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 Kingsbury of the New York Times, the two ask: Is...
Preparing for the Infocalypse
Heather and Emily hunker down in the journalistic equivalent of a nuclear bunker with Storyful’s Mandy Jenkins and design technologist Rick Barraza to explore the looming crisis of AI-generated fakery...
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 media critic Margaret Sullivan and Texas Tribune founder...
Propaganda, Misinformation and Tips for Tackling Fake News
Heather Chaplin and Emily Bell talk to Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale, about misinformation, conspiracy theories, and how journalism can survive in systems flooded with propaganda, with tips...
Please 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 how elements of online discourse are governed...
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 current political and cultural conundrum. In this episode, Heather Chaplin and...