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Media Show podcast

Here’s a podcast you should find interesting. It’s made by the BBC and it covers all the big stories and issues in the media right now.

Ronan Farrow on investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman, Misha Glenny, Bel Trew & Madhumita Murgia – The Media Show

This week on "The Media Show" with Katie Razzall we hear from Ronan Farrow about his major New Yorker investigation into OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman.Madhumita Murgia, the Financial Times’ Artificial Intelligence Editor, examines how the media should scrutinise AI leaders and whether tech journalism risks oversimplifying personalities at the centre of vast systems.Misha Glenny reflects on historic parallels in the concentration of technological power, drawing on his new series "Race to Control the World" his role as the new presenter of "In Our Time".And Bel Trew, The Independent’s Chief International Correspondent, reports on the realities of covering the war with Iran from access and safety, to misinformation and the growing role of AI in shaping narratives.Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
  1. Ronan Farrow on investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman, Misha Glenny, Bel Trew & Madhumita Murgia
  2. Scott Mills' exit & Tim Davie's final week at the BBC, AI-assisted journalism, new UK research project on teens & social media
  3. Matt Brittin profile, How to cold call a president, The Policing and Media Charter, Jamie Bartlett
  4. Bonus interview Lisa Nandy MP Culture Secretary
  5. Lisa Nandy on saving local news and the future of the BBC, reporting from inside Iran & behind the scenes at the Oscars