Byline Podcast

Adrian Goldberg's discusses the history of "attack journalism" and the demonisation of Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the RMT rail Union, with Dr Bethany Usher, a former tabloid journalist and now an academic at Newcastle University. Bethany is the author of Journalim and Celebrity.Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perspectives on the UK's biggest rail strike for 30 years with Ellie Mae O'Hagan from the left leaning think tank Class; Ashok Kumar an Associate Professor in the Business School at Birkbeck University; and Sandy James, a commuter from Bradford.Produced and presented in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zarina Zabrisky reports from Odessa about a night at the opera - a symbol of Ukraine's defiance against Russia. But as Adrian Goldberg hears, there are other, potentially dangerous, developments including a blockade by Lithuania of Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave in Eastern Europe. Lithuania says it's only enforcing EU sanctions, but Moscow regards the move as provocative.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.Funded by subscribers to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg investigates "Carriegate" or the story that disappeared…and asks what it might tell us about British media today.He's joined by Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes and Byline Times Westminster and Political correspondent Adam Bienkov.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest evidence from the January 6th Congressional Hearings has led one Republican member of the panel Adam Kinzinger to accuse former President Donald Trump of "seditious conspiracy". Trump, who denies any wrongdoing, has described the hearings as a "kangaroo court".Adrian Goldberg hears commentary from Heidi Siegmund Cudma, from the Radicalized podcast.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.(Originally broadcast on @bylineradio via Twitter Spaces) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reaction to the UK's decision to approve the deportation of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States with Labour MP Richard Burgon.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times podcast.(Originally broadcast via Twitter Spaces @bylineradio) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OK, so this episode has an unwieldy title, but it joins the dots between Brexit, the Northern Ireland Protocol, the government's unsuccessful plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, and it's subsequent threat to quit the European Convention on Human Rights.Adrian Goldberg hears from Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu and John Kyle, an Ulster Unionist Party councillor in Belfast.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times.(Originally broadcast @bylineradio via Twitter Spaces). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In what is being hailed as a victory for free speech, investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr has successfully defended a libel case against prominent Brexiter Aaron Banks Cadwalladr raised questions in a Ted Talk and a tweet about the relationship between millionaire businessman Banks and the Russian state.  Had she lost, the investigative journalist would have faced financial ruin, but in the High Court Mrs Justice Steyn ruled that Cadwalladr had “reasonable grounds to believe that her intended meaning was true” and upheld her public interest defence.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times.(Originally broadcast @bylineradio via Twitter Spaces) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from Heidi Siegmund Cuda, who has been covering the US Senate Hearing into the January 6th Insurrection for Byline Times.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded bu subscriptions to Byline Times.(Originally broadcast @bylineradio via Twitter Spaces) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The French government and police are blaming Liverpool fans for disorder at this season's European Cup Final, which held up kick off by 36 minutes. Football's European governing body UEFA also pointed an accusing finger at Reds' supporters, but hundreds of supporters testimonies tell a different story - one of official incompetence and poor communication which could have ended in tragedy.Adrian Goldberg hears from Liverpool fan John Marquis who was at the match, and Professor Phil Scraton, Professor of Law at Queens University, Belfast, who led to the research for the Hillsborough Independent Panel.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices