The News Broads Podcast

JULIET HUDDY talks - Fox, O'Reilly, and Me PART 1

Now, for the first time, reporter Juliet Huddy shares all the details behind her Me Too settlement with FoxNews, and how it helped bring down Bill O'Reilly.

EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT… OR DON’T! AT YOUR PERIL

In just over the last decade almost 2000+ local newspapers have folded. According to Axios, 50% will be gone by 2021.  Where will you get news that's important to your life? Who will hold local governments accountable? And why do many believe this poses a threat to our very democracy? We speak with Art Cullen, an Iowa journalist and Pulitzer Prize Winner, who is considered one of the most important voices emerging from rural America.

LOCAL TV NEWS PROGNOSIS: DIRE

Most people in this country still get their news from television, but that is changing rapidly. The audience is getting older, most millennials just don't watch. The NewsBroads talk to ANDREW HEYWARD, The former head of CBS New, who is leading the search to find out some ways to freshen up local newscasts that have become stagnant and, some say, a little irrelevant.

THE BROADS MEET (ALEC) BALDWIN

At Newsbroads, we are all about the media - and who better to talk to than a man who is arguably at the center of the media universe every Saturday Night at 11:30?  Alec Baldwin joins us for a frank and wide ranging conversation about the news - from his childhood love of journalism to his experiences as the sometimes victim of the news, to his current gig sending up the President on SNL.  What’s it REALLY like living life with the media spotlight shining in your face 24/7? 

SEX! GOSSIP! SCANDAL!

Sex! Gossip! Scandal! Things we all secretly love. For 60 years The National Enquirer has been pumping out entertaining sleaze, blurring the lines between fact and fiction. This paper was founded on the principle that Facts Are Not Important, Eyeballs Are. Only now have we come to realize how much the tabloid has influenced mainstream media today...even helping to elect a President.

PATIENT ZERO: TRUMP'S 1st TV INTERVIEW

“It was me.” Confessions from our own Judy Licht who reveals here for the first time that she was the one who put Donald Trump on television before anyone else. Can anyone remember a time that Trump didn’t dominate the airways? Back in 1978 no one could have imagine what the future would hold. Judy reveals her uncensored first impression of the future President.

WAIT, WHAT? POLITICAL ADVERTISING NO LONGER WORKS?

That’s the counterintuitive claim of legendary ad man, Jerry Della Femina who traces the history of political advertising from 'I Like Ike' to MAGA.  Why are we still spending billions? The News Broads get the answer. 

IS JOURNALISM DEAD, OR DOES IT JUST HAVE A BAD COLD?

In the current age of social media, famed analyst Jeff Greenfield gives his blunt diagnosis on the state of journalism today and where it’s headed next. The disruption has only begun. 

ROGER AILES' REVENGE PROJECT

Why Roger Ailes created the conservative behemoth, Fox News that encouraged and exploited a serious political divide in this country. Was it all an act of vengeance? The NewsBroads talk to a women who started her career with Ailes and was in the room when it all happened.

DEEP FAKES

Now you can no longer even believe your own eyes! One of the biggest threats to journalism, government, and even national security is based on cutting edge computer technology and artificial intelligence. If you haven’t heard of it yet you soon will, it’s called Deep Fake. Now you can make anyone say anything and it makes intelligence experts are plenty frightened. The NewsBroads talk to a Wall Street Journal investigative reporter who was one of the first to uncover its secrets.