# John Biewen

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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…

The Scene on Radio podcast asks, 'What's really wrong with the news?'

On this episode, WHQR's Benjamin Schachtman and Rachel Keith dig into the latest season of the Scene on Radio podcast. .Co-hosts John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika took a long, hard look at why people are upset with the news, what’s really wrong with our media ecosystem, and how things might be di…

From Scene on Radio: The News

Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Their new season, The News, asks: what’s really wrong with the news? Some have called the news media the oxygen of a functioning democracy. But if that’s tru…

'Scene on Radio' deep-dives on news media. Plus, Senator Jesse Helms' influence on modern conservatism

0:01:00 A new book explores legacy of U.S. Senator Jesse Helms Historian Bill Link’s new book Jesse Helms: Modern Conservatism and the Politics of Opposition explores the connection between the career and legacy of the late U.S. Senator Jesse Helms and the current political landscape. William A. Li…

S8 E9: The News, Bonus Q&A

Co-hosts John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika respond to questions sent in by listeners in response to Scene on Radio Season 8: The News. Questions about AI and propaganda, journalistic bias, America's plummeting press freedom ranking, about whether we got it wrong about the media's coverage of Trum…

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…

How To Unsubscribe From The Negative Stories You Tell About Yourself And Others | Anu Gupta

New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- How your blindspots hurt your decision-making— and how to fix it. Anu Gupta is an educator, lawyer, scientist, and the founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu, an education techno…

The Self-Interested Case for Examining Your Biases | John Biewen

Too often, the process of looking at your biases can be presented like eating your vegetables. But one of the most fascinating and rewarding things I have attempted to do in recent years is to take a good, hard look at my own prejudices and conditioning, especially as a white man. I still screw up …

recommendation: white affirmative action (seeing white, part 13), scene on radio

can a policy be race based even when race never appears on the page? this episode of scene on radio traces a long line of policies like that, from the headright system to the fha and the gi bill, each one built to benefit white families. if you've ever doubted race based policy, give this one a lis…