# Victor Pickard

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S8 E6: What Could Have Been

Ever thought about whether America's overwhelmingly corporate, for-profit news system is working as it should? It didn't have to be this way. In the 20th century, reformers fought for a more democratic and more accountable news media in the United States. They won victories, including the creation …

Democracy Needs Public Media with Victor Pickard

Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communicatio…

Information is a public good per communications prof Pickard

Victor Pickard claims that information is a public good: It is in your best interests and mine to help supporters of our worst enemies get information they want, because doing so will make it harder for their leaders and ours to convince us to support policies that may threaten our lives and future…

Introducing: Scene on Radio

Today, we are pleased to share with you an episode from the podcast Scene on Radio. It’s hosted by longtime journalist John Biewen, with co-host journalism professor Chenjerai Kumanyika. It’s a series from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and distributed by PRX.This episode is Seas…

Introducing: Scene on Radio

Today, we are pleased to share with you an episode from the podcast Scene on Radio. It’s hosted by longtime journalist John Biewen, with co-host journalism professor Chenjerai Kumanyika. It’s a series from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and distributed by PRX.This episode is Seas…

Project Censored – Muckrakers & Media Freedom: Celebrating the Izzy Award

This week, we circle back to a show that first aired in April of this year titled Muckrakers & Media Freedom: Celebrating the Izzy Award First up, we have documentary filmmaker Abby Martin of Empire Files who is sharing the Izzy Award this year for her documentary Earths Greatest Enemy about how t…

A Pitch for Why Journalists Need to Fight

What would it take to actually fix America’s broken journalism industry? Using rural North Carolina as a petri dish, the podcast Scene on Radio spent their latest season, called “The News”, diagnosing how American journalism is failing the public: collapsing local newsrooms, corporate consolidation…

White House Bans Three Media Outlets, Trump’s Latest Attack on the Constitution’s 1st Amendment

University of Pennsylvania Media Policy Professor Victor Pickard: White House Bans Three Media Outlets, Trump’s Latest Attack on the Constitution’s 1st Amendment World Mental Health Coalition President Dr. Bandy Lee: Trump’s Mental Instability and Unilateral Presidential Powers Risk Global Catastro…

Between The Lines (broadcast affiliate version) — Sept. 30, 2026

University of Pennsylvania Media Policy Professor Victor Pickard: White House Bans Three Media Outlets, Trump’s Latest Attack on the Constitution’s 1st Amendment World Mental Health Coalition President Dr. Bandy Lee: Trump’s Mental Instability and Unilateral Presidential Powers Risk Global Catastro…

White House Bans Three Media Outlets, the Latest Trump Attack on the Constitution’s 1st Amendment

Interview with Victor Pickard, the C. Edwin Baker professor of media policy and political economy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Pickard discusses Donald Trump’s decision to ban journalists from CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House gr…