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Top 40 Journalism Podcasts
Jan 10, 2026
The Best Journalism Podcasts from millions of podcasts available on the Goodpods platform and ranked by listens, ratings, comments, subscriptions and shares.

373 Episodes
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Avg Length 38mins
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Latest Episode 2 days ago
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381 Episodes
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The Slow Newscast from The Observer takes the news slowly. We investigate, and every week we focus on stories that really matter in the UK and around the world. From wars in Ukraine and Gaza through to true crime and injustice and real life mysteries, The Slow Newscast team is devoted to narrative investigations covering some of the biggest topics of the day.
Who are the people biohacking themselves in a quest for immortality? Or the man taking on an entire nation in the high seas to protect whales? And what happened when humanity's most distant messenger fell silent? From a newsroom with a different approach to journalism these are the stories we tell.
Subscribe to The Observer today and get access to:
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Avg Length 41mins
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Latest Episode 1 day ago
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Daily podcast about unscripted television. Kate Casey interviews the talent, producers, and directors of reality shows, documentaries, and docuseries. Saturday episodes tell incredible person stories.

56 Episodes
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Avg Length 40mins
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Latest Episode 2 months ago
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A crime journalism podcast series focused on unusual horrors in the hills and hollers of Appalachia. Created and hosted by Kendall Perkinson and Sarah James McLaughlin.
Season 1 - Mared & Karen: The WVU Coed Murders
Season 2 - Big Savage: The Death Of Alexander Stevens
Season 3 - Outlandish
Season 4 - Listener Suggestions

1186 Episodes
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Avg Length 21mins
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Latest Episode 19 hours ago
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Latest Episode 2 years ago
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China Stories from the Sinica Network on The China Project brings you audio narration of the best articles and op-eds appearing in Sixth Tone, Caixin Global, Week in China, The World of Chinese, and of course The China Project. Subscribe to the podcast and you can listen to features on the go, with narrators who won’t butcher the pronunciation of Chinese names and words.

97 Episodes
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Avg Length 42mins
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Latest Episode 10 months ago
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51 Episodes
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Avg Length 36mins
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241 Episodes
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Avg Length 37mins
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Latest Episode 2 years ago
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18 Episodes
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Avg Length 21mins
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Latest Episode 4 months ago
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56 Episodes
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Avg Length 58mins
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Latest Episode 12 days ago
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69 Episodes
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Avg Length 30mins
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Latest Episode 2 months ago
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A bombing kills 11 people attending the Remembrance Sunday commemorations in the small town of Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
A twelfth victim will die years later in coma.
No one has ever been charged.
A lifetime later, The Times’s reporter Mario Ledwith returns to his hometown, asking who carried out these bloody murders, how the authorities failed to fully investigate, and why a silence continues to surround what happened.
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Avg Length 27mins
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Latest Episode 4 months ago
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USA TODAY’s critically acclaimed investigative podcast about power in American cities.
Season 1, Chicago: A black neighborhood fights back when a mysterious man with mob ties builds an illegal dump across the street from an elementary school. Along the way they confront corrupt politicians, apathetic bureaucrats—and a secret undercover FBI investigation.
Season 2, Reno: A surprising proxy battle for the future of Reno pits a brash strip club kingpin against power brokers in city hall. The winner-takes-all fight could remake the city—and ruin lives in the process.

72 Episodes
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Avg Length 37mins
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Latest Episode 3 months ago
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Latest Episode 2 days ago
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Latest Episode 2 years ago
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Latest Episode 1 year ago
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KTLA Morning News anchor Frank Buckley engages fascinating guests in conversation. The award-winning Frank Buckley Interviews features newsmakers, celebrities, technologists, entrepreneurs, authors, athletes, artists, and everyday people doing extraordinary things. In 2022, Frank Buckley Interviews was honored with a National Entertainment and Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club for one of its episodes. New episodes are released every Wednesday. The TV version airs on KTLA-TV Channel 5 on weekends and is also available on YouTube and the KTLA+ app.

127 Episodes
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Avg Length 41mins
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Latest Episode 3 years ago
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123 Episodes
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Avg Length 39mins
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Latest Episode 21 days ago
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Avg Length 54mins
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Latest Episode 3 days ago
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We used to be journalists, but now we mostly just bitch about them. (Kidding. Kind of.) We also break down broken news.
This weekly podcast brings you honest and original media analysis from two insiders who’ve broken plenty of news and been broken by it, too. Hosted by long-suffering journalists and even longer-suffering friends, Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf, We Used to Be Journos is your guide to the way the media works.
Join us every Wednesday as we unpack the headlines you see, and the power you don’t. We’ll take you through the week’s sketchy editorial decisions, suspect sources and thinly veiled bigotry. We’ll show you how the media sausage is made —so you know what you’re being fed.
Armed with a low tolerance for spin, zero patience for BS, and just enough humour (and delusion) to keep working in the media, We Used to Be Journos serves up hot, sharp, unapologetic media tea.
Support Ette Media by becoming a subscriber here.
If you want to see our mugs as we yap you can watch the episode in full here.
Thanks to @jaidanielpyne for composing the music for our podcast.
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15 Episodes
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Avg Length 22mins
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Latest Episode 1 month ago
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Heliograph: The Investigative Journalism Playbook is the The Investigative Journalism Bureau's monthly podcast, examining powerful investigative journalism from around the world. The podcast will pull back the curtain on the strategies, lessons learned, and stories behind the stories that change the world.
Hosted by IJB journalists, listeners can expect candid conversations with accomplished reporters sharing the inspirations, challenges, risks and rewards behind some of the world’s most impactful investigative reporting.
Heliographs were devices for capturing images of the sun. As a podcast, Heliograph will attempt to examine the brilliant, elusive and inspiring work of some of the world’s best investigative reporters in an attempt to understand their methods, techniques, motivations and reverberations.
Each installment of Heliograph focuses on reporting that creates meaningful change and reflects the IJB’s core values: collaborative and innovative storytelling in the public interest. The podcast also embodies the IJB’s educational mission to offer top-notch training in investigative research and reporting.
Thanks for listening.
The Investigative Journalism Bureau is an impact-driven, collaborative newsroom that brings together professional and student journalists, academics, graduate students and media organizations to tell deeply-reported stories in the public interest. Based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the IJB has national reporting honours since its inception in 2020.
Media contact: ijb.dlsph@utoronto.ca
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Avg Length 24mins
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Latest Episode 7 years ago
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Avg Length 53mins
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Latest Episode 6 months ago
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The Nonprofit Podcast is your weekly dose of real-talk fundraising, designed for the doers, dreamers, and difference-makers powering today’s nonprofit world.
Hosted by Jena Lynch, Donorbox’s Education & Community Engagement Manager, and fundraising strategist Britt Stockert, CFRE, each episode delivers clear, practical insights you can act on right away, no fluff, no filler.
You’ll also hear from Cara Augspurger, Ed.M., CFRE, ED of Grace Care Center Foundation, sharing field updates and frontline perspectives.
Whether you’re building something new or leveling up your impact, we bring you bold ideas, honest conversations, and tools to help you fundraise smarter and lead with confidence.
Information. Inspiration. Implementation. Impact.
That’s the energy we bring...every week.
Let’s get to work.

42 Episodes
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Avg Length 40mins
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Latest Episode 2 years ago
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224 Episodes
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Avg Length 31mins
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Latest Episode 5 months ago
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Avg Length 67mins
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183 Episodes
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Avg Length 34mins
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Latest Episode 17 days ago
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Meduza’s English-language podcast, The Naked Pravda highlights how our top reporting intersects with the wider research and expertise that exists about Russia. The broader context of Meduza’s in-depth, original journalism isn’t always clear, which is where this show comes in. Here you’ll hear from the world’s community of Russia experts, activists, and reporters about issues that are at the heart of Meduza’s stories and crucial to major events in and around Russia.

26 Episodes
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Avg Length 16mins
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Latest Episode 3 months ago
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130 Episodes
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Avg Length 48mins
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Latest Episode 23 days ago
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The NüVoices podcast is hosted by NüVoices members Chenni Xu, Joanna Chiu, Jessie Lau, Megan Cattel, Sophia Yan, and Cindy Gao who explore the work of women in media, academia and the arts in Greater China, the impact of abuses of power, international and domestic politics, and their own personal stories. This podcast is wholly coordinated, produced, and edited by the NüVoices board.

23 Episodes
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Avg Length 36mins
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Latest Episode 2 years ago
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35 Episodes
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Avg Length 29mins
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Latest Episode 8 months ago
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Immersive true stories, narrative non-fiction and tales inspired by true events. Written by award-winning journalists and storytellers. This is Paperless, an audio magazine from Vespucci.
Esquire's Best Podcasts Of 2022: “It’s your weekend long read, but pretty much any day you like and you don’t actually have to use your eyes.”
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Avg Length 6mins
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Latest Episode 22 hours ago
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Avg Length 38mins
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Latest Episode 2 years ago
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Ever wondered why some companies make the news, but others don't? To combat the lack of understanding on how news becomes news, two former journo colleagues Greer Quinn and Jo Stone have joined forces to launch a podcast demystifying the misunderstood professions of public relations and journalism. Greer and Jo speak to an array of journalists, including iconic feature writer and author Trent Dalton, Channel Seven’s Sunrise presenter Tamra Bow, ABC Morning Show host Tom Forbes as well as a range of industry experts and service providers, so you can have all the tools in your kit to score publicity. Asking journos everything from what time they get up in the morning, to pet peeves and favourite yarns, It's PR Darlings pulls back the curtain, to provide an insider's look on how newsrooms and corporate communications work. The duo believes that for media to survive and thrive the era of misinformation and disinformation, there’s a need for greater transparency around the profession. Media cutbacks have left newsrooms under-resourced, so more than ever communications and PR professionals need to step up and make the journo's job easier. Greer and Jo will also delve into crisis management, news values, how to package a pitch and media ethics. And to ensure, you can talk the industry talk, each show of It’s PR Darlings will be brought to you by some of those weird words and jargon that get thrown in the mix like “noddy”, “pre-rec” and “talent”. Great podcast for media, communications professionals, businesses and startups wanting to boost their skills, knowledge and newsworthiness.
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24 Episodes
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Avg Length 52mins
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Latest Episode 3 days ago
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Avg Length 62mins
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Latest Episode 1 year ago
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The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara is a weekly podcast that showcases leaders in narrative journalism, essay, memoir, documentary film, radio and podcasts about the art and craft of telling true stories. Follow the show @creativenonfictionpodcast on Instagram and visit patreon.com/cnfpod to support!

85 Episodes
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Avg Length 71mins
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Latest Episode 9 months ago
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Avg Length 24mins
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Latest Episode 6 months ago
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Latest Episode 12 months ago
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