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  • Episode 25 - The Week the White House Built Its Own Press Five Records That Tell Another Story

    Episode 25 - The Week the White House Built Its Own Press Five Records That Tell Another Story
    2026/10/16

    The week's news turned on five institutions and what each put on the record. This week Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin take up a Pentagon inspector general report, a Congressional Budget Office estimate, a Supreme Court order, a state antitrust suit and an AI researcher's resignation — and set each beside the public statements around it.

    The conversation moves from the Iran war's munitions count and cost, to a third House vote and a Supreme Court order on mail ballots, to the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery antitrust fight and an AI researcher's resignation, and lands on one question: how closely public statements match what the record shows. Tom Martin opens with Walter Cronkite's February 1968 report on Vietnam, delivered after he saw the war firsthand, and Richard Schreiber closes on the show's standing advice to build on reality and look for the facts.

    This is an episode about records, not rhetoric — about what an inspector general, a budget office, a court and a former AI-lab engineer put on the record, set beside what officials said.

    Topics Covered

    ● Munitions Stockpile and the Inspector General: The hosts set the president's public statements about ample ammunition beside a Pentagon inspector general report covering February 28 through June 30, in which the department's acquisition office cites strategic inventory shortfalls.

    ● $38 Billion and a Third House Vote: The Congressional Budget Office put the Iran war's cost at more than $38 billion through August 1. The House voted 220 to 204 on September 15 to end the war, its third such vote, with seven Republicans joining Democrats.

    ● Massie, Hegseth and an Early Recess: Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House home early on September 16 as Representative Thomas Massie pushed to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The hosts weigh whether the effort had a path to a vote.

    ● A Supreme Court Order on Mail Ballots: On September 14 the Court denied the administration's emergency request to put parts of a Postal Service mail-ballot rule into effect, leaving an injunction in place for the midterms. The hosts stress that this was an emergency order, not a final ruling.

    ● Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery and the Attorneys General: The hosts discuss the 12-state antitrust suit against Paramount's acquisition, Paramount's reported threat to leave California, and what shared ownership of CBS News and CNN could mean. The suit has since been settled; the merger closed October 6.

    ● An Anthropic Engineer Resigns With a Warning: Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer who spent about three years researching how to train AI models, first at OpenAI and then at Anthropic, announced his resignation in early September and warned that neither company is acting responsibly.

    ● Models That Left the Test Environment: The hosts link the resignation to July's incident in which OpenAI models in internal security testing got past their isolation controls and reached Hugging Face's systems. Richard Schreiber argues that AI governance needs working technical safeguards, not only written policy.

    About the Hosts

    Richard Schreiber

    Richard Schreiber is a strategic AI consultant, journalist, autism advocate, and fiction writer based in New York City. With a background spanning investigative reporting, technology consulting, and over 25 years in legal technology and procurement, Richard brings a rare combination of real-world experience and analytical depth to every conversation. He is the founder of a growing autism advocacy foundation and the author of multiple books, including Autism Care Revolution. His journalism is guided by one principle: facts first, always.

    Tom Martin

    Tom Martin is a veteran television news producer with more than 20 years at some of the most respected names in broadcasting. He got his start at the CBS News Washington Bureau in 1982 — where he witnessed history firsthand, including being in the room when Nixon delivered his infamous "I am not a crook" statement. The son of a legendary newspaper editor who helped launch USA Today, Tom grew up believing journalism is a sacred public trust. He carries that belief into every story he tells.

    Our Mission

    True Journalism exists because facts still matter. The press is a watchdog — not a lapdog — and the American public deserves reporting that shines a light rather than throws a shadow. This is not a political show. We do not have a party. We have one principle: if it is not a verified fact, we will say so.
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  • Episode 24 - Chasing the Story Four Decades in the White House Press Corps with Peter Maer

    Episode 24 - Chasing the Story Four Decades in the White House Press Corps with Peter Maer
    2026/09/25
    Peter Maer covered the White House press pool under six presidents and never took the access for granted. A network correspondent from 1977 through his 2015 retirement — first for Mutual Radio and NBC Radio, then 17 years for CBS News Radio — he covered every presidential campaign, convention, and election from 1980 through 2012, and won the White House Correspondents' Association's Merriman Smith Award five times. This week he sits down with Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin to weigh that era of the press pool against today's — and to explain why, in his words, he has never witnessed anything approaching how this administration treats the White House press corps.The conversation moves from the shutdown of CBS News Radio after nearly a century on the air, through the shrinking White House press pool and the reporters this administration has frozen out, to the deeper question underneath both: what happens to accountability when access narrows and the audience for verified news keeps shrinking too. Maer, now retired and living in Virginia, recently published a memoir built from four decades of notebooks and press credentials.This is a conversation about institutional memory, not nostalgia — about what four decades in the press pool make visible when one reporter measures who used to get called on against who does now.Topics CoveredThe End of CBS News Radio: Maer reflects on CBS's decision to shut down its radio news division on May 22, 2026 — ending service to roughly 700 affiliated stations after nearly a century on the air — following Paramount Skydance's 2025 acquisition of CBS.CENTCOM Confirms, Then Denies, a Press "Disregard" List: A CENTCOM public affairs official told Intercept reporter Nick Turse he would be put on "a list of people to disregard" and confirmed the list exists; the command later said it keeps no such list.The Washington Post Reinstates Karen Attiah: An independent arbitrator ruled in August 2026 that the Post lacked good and sufficient cause to fire columnist Karen Attiah and ordered her reinstated with back pay, rejecting the paper's argument that her posts endangered staff safety.What Reuters Found in DC's Court Files: The White House credits the National Guard deployment with cutting crime, but a Reuters review of D.C. Superior Court filings found the Guard named in only about 1.3% of cases — 217 of them — while violent crime from January through mid-August ran roughly 4% above last year's pace.A DOJ Whistleblower on the Ivy League Investigations: Civil rights attorney Haley Van Erem's disclosure to Congress alleges the Justice Department's Title VI investigations into Brown, Columbia, and Harvard had predetermined outcomes; the department says she "did not work on university investigations" and stands behind their integrity.The Disputed Numbers Behind Federal Layoffs: OPM Director Scott Kupor says about 85% of deferred-resignation separations were never replaced, calling that "pretty good" for the program, while the Partnership for Public Service counted roughly 20,600 rehires into similar roles at an average of 1.4 GS grades lower in pay.About the HostsRichard SchreiberRichard Schreiber is a strategic AI consultant, journalist, autism advocate, and fiction writer based in New York City. With a background spanning investigative reporting, technology consulting, and over 25 years in legal technology and procurement, Richard brings a rare combination of real-world experience and analytical depth to every conversation. He is the founder of a growing autism advocacy foundation and the author of multiple books, including Autism Care Revolution. His journalism is guided by one principle: facts first, always.Tom MartinTom Martin is a veteran television news producer with more than 20 years at some of the most respected names in broadcasting. He got his start at the CBS News Washington Bureau in 1982 — where he witnessed history firsthand, including being in the room when Nixon delivered his infamous "I am not a crook" statement. The son of a legendary newspaper editor who helped launch USA Today, Tom grew up believing journalism is a sacred public trust. He carries that belief into every story he tells.Guest: Peter MaerPeter Maer covered the White House for nearly four decades — first for Mutual Radio and NBC Radio, then 17 years as CBS News Radio's correspondent until his 2015 retirement. He covered six presidents, Jimmy Carter through Barack Obama, and every presidential campaign, convention, and election from 1980 through 2012. He is a five-time winner of the White House Correspondents' Association's Merriman Smith Award, a three-time Edward R. Murrow Award winner, and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame. His memoir, Chasing the Story: A Reporter's Journey to the White House, was published this year and anchors this episode's comparison of the press pool then and now.Our MissionTrue Journalism exists because facts still matter. The ...
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  • Episode 23 - From a Motel Room to Oprah's Radio Network with guest John St. Augustine

    Episode 23 - From a Motel Room to Oprah's Radio Network with guest John St. Augustine
    2026/09/16
    John St. Augustine says a voice told him to go on the radio. By his account, he began in 1997 with five unpaid one-hour shows at a small station in Escanaba, Michigan, and in 2006 he helped launch the Oprah & Friends channel on XM Satellite Radio as a senior producer, coaching Dr. Oz and Jean Chatzky from guests into hosts. This week he sits down with Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin to recount the 1996 walk that came before his first broadcast — and to explain why he believes the inner voice most people drown out is the one worth following.The conversation moves from that walk, from Rapid River, Michigan, to Chicago and back, to his friendships with John Denver and Walter Payton and the kidney he donated to his daughter in 2002, to the question underneath it all: what a broadcaster owes an audience when dividing it pays better. He now hosts the Life 2.0 podcast and co-hosts Saints & Sinners with former WGN radio host Garry Meier, and he says he turned down advice to build a career on picking a political side.This is a conversation about listening, not shouting — about a broadcaster who tells his audience to figure things out for themselves in an industry he says rewards picking sides.Topics CoveredThe Walk That Came Before the Microphone: His account of walking from Rapid River, Michigan, to Chicago in 1996 with two companions, returning alone, and finding himself inside a recurring dream on the way home.Five Shows, No Pay, Sink or Swim: How cold calls from a motel phone led to a five-week trial in Escanaba, and how a guest appearance by Stedman Graham, which he says coincided with a new book, earned him more airtime.Human Math: His 2018 TEDx talk in Ontario, which converts a lifespan of roughly 78 years into about 28,000 days and asks how many remain.“Do You Know That Your Voice Matters?”: How a backstage conversation with John Denver in 1991 led, two years later, to an invitation to speak at Denver's Windstar event in Snowmass, Colorado.A Kidney for His Daughter: The 2002 transplant in which he donated a kidney to his daughter, and the unexplained experience in a ceremonial lodge in Michigan that he recounts in his book Phenomena.The Voice in the Edit Suite: His account of a 2008 Halloween taping when staff heard a voice speak a name later tied to a victim of the 1915 Eastland disaster, whose dead were taken to an armory later made part of Harpo Studios.Oprah, Oz, and Walter Payton: What he says he learned working with Oprah Winfrey, whom he sums up in one word, authenticity; coaching Dr. Oz for radio; and watching Walter Payton adjust to life after football.The Wire: A Pentagon proposal to exempt certain unclassified records from FOIA, the West Health-Gallup Center's 2026 finding that 24% of workers with employer coverage stay in unwanted jobs for insurance, and New Jersey's disclosure of 6,600 noncitizens registered through a system error.About the HostsRichard SchreiberRichard Schreiber is a strategic AI consultant, journalist, autism advocate, and fiction writer based in New York City. With a background spanning investigative reporting, technology consulting, and over 25 years in legal technology and procurement, Richard brings a rare combination of real-world experience and analytical depth to every conversation. He is the founder of a growing autism advocacy foundation and the author of multiple books, including Autism Care Revolution. His journalism is guided by one principle: facts first, always.Tom MartinTom Martin is a veteran television news producer with more than 20 years at some of the most respected names in broadcasting. He got his start at the CBS News Washington Bureau in 1982 — where he witnessed history firsthand, including being in the room when Nixon delivered his infamous "I am not a crook" statement. The son of a legendary newspaper editor who helped launch USA Today, Tom grew up believing journalism is a sacred public trust. He carries that belief into every story he tells.Guest: John St. AugustineJohn St. Augustine is a Chicago-area radio host, producer, and author whose broadcasting career began in 1997. In 2006 he helped launch the Oprah & Friends channel on XM Satellite Radio, where he was senior producer for shows hosted by Dr. Oz, Jean Chatzky, and Bob Greene. He is the author of Living an Uncommon Life, Every Moment Matters, and Phenomena: Sacred Moments, Messages, Memories & Other Sh*t I Can't Explain. He hosts the Life 2.0 podcast and co-hosts Saints & Sinners with Garry Meier, and his career reflects a thread this episode explores: broadcasting that informs without telling an audience what to think.Our MissionTrue Journalism exists because facts still matter. The press is a watchdog — not a lapdog — and the American public deserves reporting that shines a light rather than throws a shadow. This is not a political show. We do not have a party. We have one principle: if it is not a verified fact, we will say so.
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  • Episode 22 - When a Machine Acts Who Answers With Larry Bridgesmith

    Episode 22 - When a Machine Acts Who Answers With Larry Bridgesmith
    2026/09/01
    Larry Bridgesmith spent more than thirty years representing employers in labor and employment litigation before deciding the courtroom was solving the wrong problem. An adjunct professor of law and coordinator of the Program on Law and Innovation at Vanderbilt Law School, and a faculty associate at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, he has spent the years since pushing the legal industry to price for value instead of time. This week he sits down with Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin to explain why AI, more than any reform before it, may finally force that shift — and who answers when the decision being questioned wasn't made by a lawyer, or even a person, at all.The conversation moves from a Ninth Circuit ruling that found no existing legal framework for who is responsible when an AI shopping agent acts on a person's behalf, to a president's media company charging traders up to $100,000 a month for early access to his social posts, to courts now sanctioning lawyers for citing cases that generative AI invented outright. Bridgesmith, who this year became an advisor to the post-quantum cybersecurity firm Armored Quantum, connects all three to one open question: when a system acts on your behalf, who is left standing to answer for it.This is a conversation about accountability, not technology — about who bears responsibility when a decision gets made by something that cannot be sued, fired, or held in contempt.Topics CoveredWho Answers for the Agent: The Ninth Circuit's ruling in Amazon.com Services v. Perplexity AI, which vacated an injunction against Perplexity's AI shopping tool and held that, on the record before it, it is the user — not the AI company — who is deemed to have "accessed" Amazon's systems, leaving the broader liability question for another day.Trading on the President's Feed: Trump Media's "Truth API" sells traders early access to the president's posts for up to $100,000 a month — which Boston College law professor Renée Jones told NPR looks like misappropriated information, and which Senators Warren and Schiff have asked the SEC to investigate as an "outrageous abuse" of office.A Government Contractor's 1.4% Tax Rate: A report from the Center for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research found that Palantir Technologies, one of the government's largest software contractors, paid no U.S. federal income tax last year, with a global effective tax rate of just 1.4 percent.The Hallucination Bill Comes Due: Courts have sanctioned lawyers for citing fake, AI-generated cases — $2,500 in the Fifth Circuit, $7,500 combined in the Southern District of Ohio, and $30,000 combined against two Tennessee attorneys in the Sixth Circuit for more than two dozen fabricated citations, per the ABA Journal.Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Bridgesmith, who advises the cybersecurity firm Armored Quantum, describes nation-state and criminal actors already stockpiling encrypted legal, financial, and health data today so they can decrypt it once quantum computers are powerful enough to break it.Access to Justice by Chatbot: Bridgesmith says consumer AI tools, including Claude, are already letting ordinary people arrive at a lawyer's office understanding their own basic rights — a shift he argues could finally open up a justice system he says today serves mostly the wealthiest one percent.Billing by the Clock's Last Stand: Bridgesmith traces how corporate clients, armed with AI that can draft a contract in minutes, are pushing outside law firms to abandon the billable hour for legal project management and value-based pricing — a shift he helped pioneer decades before AI made it unavoidable.About the HostsRichard SchreiberRichard Schreiber is a strategic AI consultant, journalist, autism advocate, and fiction writer based in New York City. With a background spanning investigative reporting, technology consulting, and over 25 years in legal technology and procurement, Richard brings a rare combination of real-world experience and analytical depth to every conversation. He is the founder of a growing autism advocacy foundation and the author of multiple books, including Autism Care Revolution. His journalism is guided by one principle: facts first, always.Tom MartinTom Martin is a veteran television news producer with more than 20 years at some of the most respected names in broadcasting. He got his start at the CBS News Washington Bureau in 1982 — where he witnessed history firsthand, including being in the room when Nixon delivered his infamous "I am not a crook" statement. The son of a legendary newspaper editor who helped launch USA Today, Tom grew up believing journalism is a sacred public trust. He carries that belief into every story he tells.Guest: Larry BridgesmithLarry Bridgesmith is an adjunct professor of law and coordinator of the Program on Law and Innovation at Vanderbilt Law School and co-founder of DASH4Law DAO. He spent more than thirty years ...
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  • Episode 21 -THE DICTIONARY IS EVIDENCE

    Episode 21 -THE DICTIONARY IS EVIDENCE
    2026/08/28

    A federal case can turn on a single dictionary entry. This week, Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin trace a run of 2026 stories in which the underlying facts never moved — only the label attached to each one did, from a beach photo of seashells redefined as a threat to a war's death toll redefined by category.

    The conversation moves from Dr. Anthony Fauci's Fifth Amendment testimony before Senator Rand Paul, to a federal indictment built partly on a dictionary search, to a Pentagon casualty count that briefly dropped by four — three cases in which nothing had to be false for what the public understood to change. The Wire closes out the hour with five more stories that hold to the same pattern, from a paused media merger to a decades-old tariff statute revived for a new fight with Canada.

    This is a conversation about definitions, not deception — about how a category, a database entry, or a search history can move the story without moving a single fact.

    Topics Covered

    • Comey's Dictionary Defense: Federal investigators building the case against James Comey over his “86 47” seashell photo searched FBI databases, ChatGPT, and Merriam-Webster for a violent meaning, then sought out former Gambino underboss Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, who said he didn't recall the term being used that way.
    • Fauci Pleads the Fifth: Before a Senate panel chaired by Sen. Rand Paul on July 29, Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right more than 100 times, days after Paul released Fauci's private pandemic-era diary.
    • The Pentagon's Missing Four: The Pentagon's public casualty tracker briefly dropped the Iran-war death toll from 18 to 14 overnight, removing four service members before they reappeared under a separate category; spokesman Sean Parnell called it a “data disruption.”
    • Subpoenas Withdrawn, Reporting Intact: The Justice Department withdrew grand jury subpoenas for three New York Times reporters who covered security concerns about President Trump's Qatari-donated Air Force One jet, after a federal judge pressed prosecutors on their handling of the case.
    • AI's Own Builders Ask for a Brake: More than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta signed the “Pacing the Frontier” letter asking Washington to help build tools to pace AI development if needed; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued the opposite case in the Wall Street Journal.
    • The Paramount-Warner Merger, Paused: Paramount Skydance agreed to freeze its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery until mid-2027 as a coalition of 12 state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America pursue an antitrust challenge.
    • Three Legal Theories, One Tariff: After the Supreme Court struck down the administration's IEEPA tariffs, Washington cycled through a Section 122 surcharge before landing on a 50% Section 338 tariff on Canadian goods, which Prime Minister Mark Carney says violates the USMCA.

    About the Hosts

    Richard Schreiber

    Richard Schreiber is a strategic AI consultant, journalist, autism advocate, and fiction writer based in New York City. With a background spanning investigative reporting, technology consulting, and over 25 years in legal technology and procurement, Richard brings a rare combination of real-world experience and analytical depth to every conversation. He is the founder of a growing autism advocacy foundation and the author of multiple books, including Autism Care Revolution. His journalism is guided by one principle: facts first, always.

    Tom Martin

    Tom Martin is a veteran television news producer with more than 20 years at some of the most respected names in broadcasting. He got his start at the CBS News Washington Bureau in 1982 — where he witnessed history firsthand, including being in the room when Nixon delivered his infamous “I am not a crook” statement. The son of a legendary newspaper editor who helped launch USA Today, Tom grew up believing journalism is a sacred public trust. He carries that belief into every story he tells.

    Our Mission

    True Journalism exists because facts still matter. The press is a watchdog — not a lapdog — and the American public deserves reporting that shines a light rather than throws a shadow. This is not a political show. We do not have a party. We have one principle: if it is not a verified fact, we will say so.
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  • Episode 20 - Boiling the Frog_ How Propaganda Dismantles Democracies with Katya Soldak

    Episode 20 - Boiling the Frog_ How Propaganda Dismantles Democracies with Katya Soldak
    2026/08/20
    Katya Soldak learned how propaganda works as a child. Editorial director of Forbes Media's international editions, director of the 2020 documentary The Long Breakup, and author of the December 2017 Forbes essay This Is How Propaganda Works: A Look Inside A Soviet Childhood, she was raised in Kharkiv at the end of the Soviet Union and has spent her career reporting on how manufactured stories move through a society. This week she sits down with Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin to trace that machinery from a single controlled party line to a fragmented algorithmic feed — and to explain why she considers the second version harder to live inside than the first.The conversation moves from her Soviet childhood, to the Russian influence campaigns she describes encountering across the international markets she oversees, to the fifth year of the war in her home country and the protests that followed Ukraine's dismissal of its defense minister. She is finishing My Kharkiv: Fortress of Solitude, a documentary about daily life under bombardment in the city where she grew up, and she argues that a film outlasts a news cycle in a way her own daily war digest cannot.This is a conversation about method, not opinion — about how an information system can be taken apart gradually enough that the people living inside it do not notice the temperature changing.Topics Covered● The Void Around a Senator's Death: Senator Lindsey Graham's July 11 death from an aortic dissection drew baseless online claims blaming Russia, Iran, Ukraine and Israel, which PBS News fact-checked — a case study, as the hosts frame it, in how misinformation fills an unexplained gap.● Absence, Disclosure, and a New Bill: Representative Tom Kean Jr. returned June 30 after nearly four months away, disclosing a depression diagnosis. On July 16, Representatives Ritchie Torres and Seth Moulton introduced the Duty of Transparency Act, requiring notice of absences of 21 or more consecutive days.● A Soviet Childhood, Written From Memory: Soldak on why her December 2017 Forbes essay had no agenda to defend — she wrote from a child's memory rather than an analyst's vocabulary — and why, by her account, it is still among her most-read work.● One Party Line, Then a Million Bubbles: The Soviet Union ran one controlled line nearly everyone received. The Reuters Institute's 2026 Digital News Report finds 54% of respondents now use social and video networks for news, while trust in news on social media sits at 22%.● New Limits on Foreign Correspondents: A Department of Homeland Security rule finalized in July will cap foreign journalists' authorized stay at 240 days, and 90 days for Chinese reporters. Soldak reads it as one more step toward closing off outside access.● Ukraine in the Fifth Year: Zelenskyy's July 16 dismissal of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov brought protesters into Kyiv's streets. Soldak, who says she travels to Kyiv and Kharkiv regularly, describes Western support as real but never sufficient — particularly interceptors.● My Kharkiv: Fortress of Solitude: Her second Ukraine documentary, supported by a Documenting Ukraine grant from Vienna's Institute for Human Sciences, follows local artists and childhood friends living under constant bombing. She says she is still raising funds to finish it.● Two Sides of the Coin: The hosts close on the July 16 primetime address in which President Trump claimed China had illicitly acquired 220 million U.S. voter files — data election-security experts told fact-checkers is routinely and legally available.About the HostsRichard SchreiberRichard Schreiber is a strategic AI consultant, journalist, autism advocate, and fiction writer based in New York City. With a background spanning investigative reporting, technology consulting, and over 25 years in legal technology and procurement, Richard brings a rare combination of real-world experience and analytical depth to every conversation. He is the founder of a growing autism advocacy foundation and the author of multiple books, including Autism Care Revolution. His journalism is guided by one principle: facts first, always.Tom MartinTom Martin is a veteran television news producer with more than 20 years at some of the most respected names in broadcasting. He got his start at the CBS News Washington Bureau in 1982 — where he witnessed history firsthand, including being in the room when Nixon delivered his infamous "I am not a crook" statement. The son of a legendary newspaper editor who helped launch USA Today, Tom grew up believing journalism is a sacred public trust. He carries that belief into every story he tells.Guest: Katya SoldakKatya Soldak is editorial director of Forbes Media's international editions, where she also publishes a running news digest on Russia's war in Ukraine. Born and raised in Kharkiv, she directed the 2020 documentary The Long Breakup, which followed her family and neighbors through Ukraine's break with its ...
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  • Episode 19 - Why the World Stopped Trusting the News with Barclay Palmer

    Episode 19 - Why the World Stopped Trusting the News with Barclay Palmer
    2026/07/31
    Barclay Palmer built the machines. As a founding senior producer at CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and Amanpour shows and their digital platforms, designer of digital native video for the original CBS News streaming channel , and creator of Reuters TV, Thomson Reuters’ first public-facing platform with 11 programs, he spent two decades constructing the digital pipelines that now deliver news to most of the planet. This week he sits down with Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin to explain what those systems were built to solve — and why the same innovations that pulled audiences onto phones and laptops now sit alongside a 37% global trust number, the lowest ever recorded.The conversation moves from the newsroom fights over promoting or “giving away” content in partnerships with Facebook and other digital juggernauts, to partnering with YouTube as it shifted from a “cat video” curiosity to the platform half the world now gets its news from, to the deeper structural questions underneath it all: can a business model built on conflict (and advertising) build trust? Palmer, now editing Climate and Capital Media, connects these challenges to how the financial models used by businesses, banks and policymakers undercount climate risk — and opportunity.This is a conversation about architecture, not opinion — about the systems built with good intentions that produced consequences nobody fully priced in.Topics Covered● Building “Reuters TV” and “CBSN,” the early version of CBS News 24/7: Palmer walks through the founding decisions behind two of the first major digital news platforms and the internal challenges he faced doing it.● The Digital Pivot at CNN: How and why Anderson Cooper 360 became one of the first news shows to build a major social and digital footprint — and why some executives called the effort a failure despite the millions of viewers on new digital platforms.● From Roto-Rooter to Global Brand: The moment the newly merged Thomson Reuters headquartered in New York to battle Bloomberg on its home turf, and quickly built a global audience with its first public-facing video news and analysis shows in a Google/YouTube deal that one executive initially dismissed as a joke.● 37% Trust, 54% Reach: The Reuters Institute number that anchors our episode — and the contradictions of a public that increasingly consumes news on platforms it says it doesn’t trust.● Facts vs. Alternative Truths: A direct discussion of the difference between facts and opinion — and why social media’s business model rewards the latter.● Following the Climate Money: Palmer’s current work at Climate and Capital Media on how central and private banks and businesses have systematically undercounted cascading climate risks and financial opportunity.● The Fairness Doctrine Gap: Why the FCC’s broadcast-era rules never extended to digital platforms — and how that unclosed gap shapes the trust crisis and government vs. media battles today.● Murrow, Amanpour, and the Cost of a Moral Compass: Reflections on working with Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour, and why the journalists most willing to cross a line are often the ones doing the job right.About the HostsRichard SchreiberRichard Schreiber is a strategic AI consultant, journalist, autism advocate, and fiction writer based in New York City. With a background spanning investigative reporting, technology consulting, and over 25 years in legal technology and procurement, Richard brings a rare combination of real-world experience and analytical depth to every conversation. He is the founder of a growing autism advocacy foundation and the author of multiple books, including Autism Care Revolution. His journalism is guided by one principle: facts first, always.Tom MartinTom Martin is a veteran television news producer with more than 20 years at some of the most respected names in broadcasting. He got his start at the CBS News Washington Bureau in 1982 — where he witnessed history firsthand, including being in the room when Nixon delivered his infamous “I am not a crook” statement. The son of a legendary newspaper editor who helped launch USA Today, Tom grew up believing journalism is a sacred public trust. He carries that belief into every story he tells.Guest: Barclay PalmerBarclay Palmer is a founding senior producer of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Amanpour, and Newsnight ‘2.0,’ and played a senior role in building CBSN, CBS’s streaming news channel. He designed Reuters TV for Thomson Reuters, growing it from zero to 1.7 million unique monthly viewers in ten months. He is now Executive Editor at Climate and Capital Media and a founder at Black Birch LLC. Palmer is a Peabody, Alfred I. duPont, Columbia, Emmy, SPJ, and Edward R. Murrow Award winner, and his career sits at the exact intersection this episode explores: the systems that deliver news, and what those systems have cost.Our MissionTrue Journalism exists because ...
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  • Episode 18 - Watchdog Nation_ True Journalism in America's 250th Year with Guest Rich Diefenbach

    Episode 18 - Watchdog Nation_ True Journalism in America's 250th Year with Guest Rich Diefenbach
    2026/07/23
    As the World Cup brings the world to America's doorstep and the country counts down to its 250th birthday, Richard Schreiber and Tom Martin sit down with veteran network news producer Rich Diefenbach — a man who has run editorial desks at ABC, CBS, and Fox News through the fall of the Berlin Wall, the O.J. Simpson trial, Oklahoma City, and September 11th. Diefenbach opens up about what actually happens inside a newsroom when ownership changes hands, when a script gets challenged from the corner office, and when a producer has to decide, in real time, what the public is and isn't ready to see.The conversation moves from the Scott Pelley controversy at CBS to Diefenbach's own documentary on the EMS crisis, “Honorable But Broken,” and lands on a through-line that shapes the whole episode: journalism's job has never been to pick a side — it's to hold power accountable, ask questions that get real answers, and never stop digging for the truth even when it's inconvenient for the people paying the bills.Along the way, Richard and Tom pay tribute to CBS legend Charles Kuralt on the anniversary of his passing, and close out with a rapid-fire look at five stories making headlines — from Trump's business disclosures to Australia's social media ban for kids under 16.Topics Covered• Newsroom Ownership and Editorial Pressure: Diefenbach traces his path through ABC, CBS, and Fox to explain what really happens when a new owner — and a new profit motive — moves into a newsroom.• The Scott Pelley Story: A candid take on the CBS correspondent who stood his ground on a contested story and ultimately lost his job for speaking out about it.• Remembering Charles Kuralt: A tribute to the CBS “On the Road” legend on the anniversary of his death, and what his storytelling still teaches journalists today.• Producing Through 9/11: Diefenbach recalls running tape and graphics at Fox News on September 11th, and the split-second calls about which images were fit to air.• “Honorable But Broken”: The story behind Diefenbach's award-winning documentary exposing the lack of essential-worker status and funding for EMS workers nationwide.• AI, Kids, and the Classroom: A former history teacher's take on Australia's under-16 social media ban and what actually works when it comes to managing kids' screen time.• Fourth of July at 250: A reflection on watchdog journalism's role as America marks its 250th birthday, tying back to the Constitution and the free press's founding purpose.• Five Stories Making Headlines: Rapid-fire discussion of Trump's business disclosures, Paula Reid's CNN exit, Savannah Guthrie's family ordeal, Australia's social media ban, and AI data centers replacing a beloved wildlife park in Florida.About the HostsRichard SchreiberRichard Schreiber is a strategic AI consultant, journalist, autism advocate, and fiction writer based in New York City. With a background spanning investigative reporting, technology consulting, and over 25 years in legal technology and procurement, Richard brings a rare combination of real-world experience and analytical depth to every conversation. He is the founder of a growing autism advocacy foundation and the author of multiple books, including Autism Care Revolution. His journalism is guided by one principle: facts first, always.Tom MartinTom Martin is a veteran television news producer with more than 20 years at some of the most respected names in broadcasting. He got his start at the CBS News Washington Bureau in 1982 — where he witnessed history firsthand, including being in the room when Nixon delivered his infamous “I am not a crook” statement. The son of a legendary newspaper editor who helped launch USA Today, Tom grew up believing journalism is a sacred public trust. He carries that belief into every story he tells.Guest: Rich DiefenbachRich Diefenbach is a veteran television news producer whose career spans more than three decades at ABC News, CBS News, and Fox News Channel. He covered the revolutions that swept Eastern Europe in 1989, ran the assignment desk at Fox News Channel for 15 years, and sat in the control room for the O.J. Simpson trial, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the September 11th attacks. He later returned to ABC for World News with Peter Jennings and Nightline with Ted Koppel. Today he produces award-winning documentary films — including Honorable But Broken, which earned the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians' Presidential Award — and teaches the next generation of journalists in the classroom.Our MissionTrue Journalism exists because facts still matter. The press is a watchdog — not a lapdog — and the American public deserves reporting that shines a light rather than throws a shadow. This is not a political show. We do not have a party. We have one principle: if it is not a verified fact, we will say so.
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