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Kenya Hunter took a terrifying leap out of journalism. She couldn’t be happier.
Aug 20, 2026
45m 51s
Twenty Years of Food Blogs: Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman has never needed AI to develop a recipe.
Aug 6, 2026
53m 54s
What Went Wrong: A first-time editor in chief reflects on a startup that didn’t work
Jul 23, 2026
57m 07s
Welcome to Hell: A site with personality big enough for the city it covers.
Jul 9, 2026
49m 03s
Why Do You Have to Run from Us? Local reporters are struggling to get answers from the politicians they cover.
Jun 30, 2026
46m 03s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/20/26 | Kenya Hunter took a terrifying leap out of journalism. She couldn’t be happier. | One of my favorite dive-bar conversations with fellow journalists is “What would you do if you couldn’t do this anymore?” We’ve all thought about it; the tough economics of our industry haven’t left us any choice. It’s such an interesting window into people’s psyches: friends have told me about secret dreams of going to medical or law school, opening a restaurant, running a bed-and-breakfast, teaching kindergartners, and more. (Interestingly, no one has ever told me they would go into PR, whi... | 45m 51s | ||||||
| 8/6/26 | Twenty Years of Food Blogs: Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman has never needed AI to develop a recipe. | A friend recently posted a photo on Instagram of a giant zucchini harvested from her backyard in Chicago, with a caption that she needed recipes that use a ton of zucchini. I knew exactly where to send her. The best food blog on the internet, Smitten Kitchen, has thirty-seven zucchini recipes in its archives, ranging from quesadillas to latkes to chocolate bread. I sent my friend the link to a zucchini butter spaghetti recipe from five years ago—an internet classic. This summer, Smitten Kitch... | 53m 54s | ||||||
| 7/23/26 | What Went Wrong: A first-time editor in chief reflects on a startup that didn’t work | When The Barbed Wire debuted, in 2024, it promised “something different: a site that combines the best of savvy, new-model online journalism with Texas’s deep—and very old—association with progressive ideas.” Its goal, Olivia Messer, the editor in chief, wrote at the time, was to reach the millions of Texans who weren’t reading their local newspaper or any statewide news outlet, and to do it in a way that created a new hybrid for-profit/nonprofit revenue model for journalism. The Barbed... | 57m 07s | ||||||
| 7/9/26 | New York City politicselection coverage+3 | — | Hell Gate | New York City | Hell GateNew York City+3 | — | 49m 03s | ||
| 6/30/26 | local journalismpolitics+3 | — | Columbia Journalism Review | local | local reporterspoliticians+3 | — | 46m 03s | ||
| 6/23/26 | technology journalismaccountability+3 | — | Wired | — | Wiredtechnology journalism+3 | — | 57m 46s | ||
| 6/11/26 | women's basketballWNBA growth+4 | Emma Baccellieri | WNBAplayers’ union | — | WNBAwomen's basketball+5 | — | 54m 01s | ||
| 5/21/26 | immigration coveragejournalism experiments+4 | — | Documented | New York CityWeChat+4 | immigrationjournalism+7 | — | 52m 48s | ||
| 5/14/26 | political influenceconservatism+3 | — | Columbia Journalism Review | — | political influenceRonald Reagan+3 | — | 57m 24s | ||
| 5/7/26 | journalismBoston+3 | Emily Sweeney | Boston GlobeJuno | BostonMuseum of Fine Arts | Emily SweeneyBoston Globe+4 | — | 44m 26s | ||
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| 5/4/26 | Elon MuskHenry Ford+4 | Ben TarnoffQuinn Slobodian | Columbia Journalism Review | — | Elon MuskHenry Ford+5 | — | 1h 04m 03s | ||
| 4/23/26 | fundraisingcollege football+3 | — | Every Day Should Be Saturdayrefugee services organization | Atlanta | fundraiserscollege football+5 | — | 48m 34s | ||
| 4/9/26 | journalismstudent publications+3 | Eric Gustafson | — | — | journalismstudent publications+3 | — | 50m 54s | ||
| 3/26/26 | journalismtechnology+3 | Mike IsaacSheera Frankel | New York Times | — | New York Timesreporters+3 | — | 52m 49s | ||
| 3/12/26 | early-career journalismindustry changes+3 | — | Columbia Journalism Review | — | early-career journalistsjournalism+3 | — | 48m 17s | ||
| 2/26/26 | journalismGaza+4 | Miriam Berger | — | IsraelPalestine+1 | Gazajournalism+5 | — | 31m 32s | ||
| 2/19/26 | journalismnonprofit news+3 | — | newspaper industrynonprofit news outlets+1 | — | journalismnonprofit+5 | — | 1h 13m 34s | ||
| 2/12/26 | press freedomjournalism risks+3 | — | Washington PostColumbia Journalism Review | — | press freedomjournalism+5 | — | 1h 02m 43s | ||
| 2/5/26 | local newsjournalism+3 | Sarah Alvarez | Outlier Media | DetroitMichigan | local newsOutlier Media+5 | — | 51m 06s | ||
| 1/29/26 | labor strikejournalism+4 | Bob Batz Jr. | Pittsburgh Post-GazetteU.S. Supreme Court+1 | — | Pittsburgh Post-GazetteBob Batz Jr.+4 | — | 44m 53s | ||
| 1/22/26 | Gawker trialPeter Thiel+5 | — | GawkerValleywag+1 | — | GawkerPeter Thiel+5 | — | 1h 19m 30s | ||
| 1/15/26 | Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth | Annual reports are generally pretty boring documents, bogged down with numbers taken out of context and marketing-speak about “thriving in the face of unprecedented challenges.” Not Jasper Wang’s. At the end of 2025, the cofounder and vice president of revenue and operations at Defector—the pioneering worker-owned sports site that grew from the ashes of Deadspin—managed to reinvent the genre, writing a riveting six-thousand-something first-person words containing not only full transparency ... | 44m 40s | ||||||
| 1/8/26 | Why You Should Never Marry a Journalist—and Other Lessons from Decades in Media | The Kicker returns with our former host, Josh Hersh, and our new one, Megan Greenwell, in conversation. Between President Trump’s legal battles against news outlets, the defunding of public media, the rise of creator journalism, wave after wave of layoffs, and at least twelve hundred more things I’ve forgotten, Josh Hersh hosted this podcast during an eventful time for the journalism industry. Then he left! Now you have me. I’m an author and magazine features writer, and a longtime writ... | 30m 28s | ||||||
| 10/23/25 | Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics | This summer, Margaret Sullivan, the executive director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia Journalism School, and her colleague Julie Gerstein published a series of essays in CJR exploring what a new generation of journalism ethics might look like, as the media industry evolves. “It is conventional wisdom among journalists that while the world around us changes, our ethics do not,” Sullivan wrote, in her introduction to the project. “Yet a fresh lo... | 28m 07s | ||||||
| 10/10/25 | Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE | On Thursday, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring federal agents from using riot control measures like tear gas to disperse journalists seeking to cover protests outside the Broadview ICE processing center, near Chicago. The order was the result of a lawsuit filed earlier in the week by several Chicago news organizations and reporters who had been injured or detained while trying to cover ICE activity in the city. Stephanie Lulay is the co–executive e... | 25m 26s | ||||||
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Chart history for The Kicker
Peaked at #191 in Spain, currently #191 in Spain.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| Spain | — | #191 | #191 | — |
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.