About this podcast
The multi award-winning investigative and current affairs 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 week, journalists Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia storm through the headlines, and seeking out the voices of 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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Episodes
The newest 20 of 186 episodes
- The money taboo: Who profits from our silence? · 56 min · Season 9 Episode 20Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Surveys show most of us think we…
- Cornell 7: Violence against women is still a man's problem · 38 min · Season 9 Episode 19Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! This episode contains conversation…
- We need to talk about violence against sex workers · 46 min · Season 9 Episode 18Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! This episode contains conversation…
- Patriotism: Whose flag is it anyway? · 1 h 0 min · Season 9 Episode 17Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Since August 2025, thousands of St…
- The Great ADHD Media Myths · 48 min · Season 9 Episode 16Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! This episode contains discussion of…
- Heatwaves and Net Zero: Who sets the climate agenda? · 57 min · Season 9 Episode 15Care about independent and ethical news (and Mathilda’s baby)? Support Media Storm on Patreon! This month, the UN…
- How Britain turned its back on care workers · 47 min · Season 9 Episode 14Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Angry? Find out how to help at The Care Workers…
- Jason Arday: Anatomy of a media storm · 43 min · Season 9 Episode 13Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! This episode deals with themes of suicide. If you…
- The local news decline and why it matters · 50 min · Season 9 Episode 12Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! 64 years ago, national news journalist and editor…
- 'I don’t do politics': How to fight news fatigue · 58 min · Season 9 Episode 11Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Almost half of us in the UK now say we actively avoid…
- Bad Think Tanks: How fake facts get into the news · 41 min · Season 9 Episode 10Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Last week, we talked about ‘New research shows…’…
- Bad Science: Faux facts, health fads and influencers · 45 min · Season 9 Episode 9Care about ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Learn more about Open Britain’s petition for electoral reform: you have…
- Do we need to change the voting system? · 44 min · Season 9 Episode 8Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Since 1945, no party has won more than 50% of the vote in a…
- News Watch: World Cup rapists - and what really went wrong for Starmer · 39 min · Season 9 Episode 7Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! Are you thrilled to see the back of Keir Starmer? Or - like…
- Ad-funded news: Who pays for hate & clickbait? · 45 min · Season 9 Episode 6Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! There are loosely three main funding models that make up our…
- Deport. Detain. Deter: The moneymaking anti-migrant machine · 49 min · Season 9 Episode 5Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! The EU has just passed a controversial law, hailed by the…
- Surveillance nation: Palantir, facial recognition and the UK · 1 h 0 min · Season 9 Episode 4China, Russia, and... the UK? We’re talking about mass surveillance. Did you know the UK is in the 5 most surveilled countries in the world? AI facial recognition technology is…
- News Watch: Hantavirus v Ebola. Teenage rapists avoid jail. · 47 min · Season 9 Episode 3Content warning: This episode contains discussion and description of rape, sexual assault and male violence against women and girls. “THE TERROR OF THE MEDIEVAL PLAGUE SHIP HAS…
- Angry Young Women: Did the media manufacture the femosphere? · 43 min · Season 9 Episode 2Last month, an article in the New Statesman went viral. “Meet the Angry Young Women”, it was titled. “Across Britain a radical new feminism is rising”. What makes someone…
- Foreign interference: Who bankrolled Brexit and Britain’s far-right? · 48 min · Season 9 Episode 1Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon! In today’s Media Storm, we dive into the shadow world of dark…
