Pakistan the negotiator, and reporting mass shootings

About this episode

The episode discusses Pakistan's emerging role as a negotiator in the US-Iran conflict and the ethical implications of media coverage of mass shootings.

Why is Pakistan the new deal broker in the US-Iran war? And what do cryptocurrency and critical minerals deals have to do with their new-found role? And the ethics of media coverage of mass shootings, or attempted shootings, as with President Trump over the weekend. Guests: Dr Farzana Shaikh, Associate Fellow with the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, author of MAKING SENSE OF PAKISTAN (2018) Dr Glynn Greensmith, senior lecturer in journalism at Curtin University (WA); former ABC broadcaster, author of Mass Shootings, Media and Motive – How Changing Coverage Can Change Lives (2026)

People in this episode

Guests: Dr Farzana Shaikh, Dr Glynn Greensmith

Topics covered

• Pakistan
• US-Iran relations
• cryptocurrency
• critical minerals
• media ethics
• mass shootings

Keywords

• Pakistan
• US-Iran war
• cryptocurrency
• critical minerals
• mass shootings
• media coverage
• ethics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chatham House, Curtin University, ABC

Books & works: MAKING SENSE OF PAKISTAN, Mass Shootings, Media and Motive – How Changing Coverage Can Change Lives

More episodes of Late Night Live — Full program podcast

• 'Serbia's Iron Lady' unrepentant for war crimes, plus how humans read faces · June 11, 2026 · 55 min
• Saving the Sepik river, and remembering the Soweto uprising · June 10, 2026 · 55 min
• Ian Dunt's UK, America's 'masculinist' movement, and could Switzerland cap its population? · June 9, 2026 · 54 min
• Finishing La Sagrada Familia, plus why people still love Spam · June 8, 2026 · 55 min
• How Australia changed course on drug policy, and the forgotten boat people of East Timor · June 4, 2026 · 54 min
• Is Muskism the new Fordism? Plus, the maverick psychiatrist who studied life after death · June 3, 2026 · 55 min