Media Roundtable

On today's Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of the payroll tax extension, and the renewal of unemployment benefits, which both expire at the end of the month. We'll also discuss coverage of the eurozone crisis. We'll be joined by The Huffington Post's Arthur Delany, ProPublica's Dafna Linzer, and the Globe and Mail's Eric Reguly joins us from Rome. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Eric Reguly, European business correspondent for The Globe and Mail

Arthur Delaney, reporter for The Huffington Post, and author of A People's History of the Great Recession

Dafna Linzer, senior reporter for ProPublica

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the Occupy Wall Street crackdown, the media blackout and the arrests of a number of journalists. We will discuss the AP's Global Freedom of Information project. We'll be joined by the Free Press's Josh Stearns, the AP's Martha Mendoza and AlterNet's Kristen Gwynne. Join us live at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kristen Gwynne is a freelance writer and an editorial assistant at AlterNet.

Martha Mendoza, a National Writer for the Associated Press

Josh Stearns, Associate Program Director with Free Press

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, Oakland, and around the country. Wednesday's general strike shut down one of the largest ports in the country, but ended with vandalism, arrests, and injuries. We'll be joined Joshua Holland, an editor and senior writer at AlterNet and Rob Reynolds, Al Jazeera's Senior Washington correspondent, both of whom have been covering the Occupy Oakland movement this week. Join us live at 10 or send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Joshua Holland, editor and senior writer at AlterNet

Rob Reynolds, Al Jazeera's senior Washington correspondent

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of the Occupy movements as cities begin to crack down on demonstrators and dismantle camps. Occupy Oakland has received international attention after it was raided by the Oakland Police. How are protests in the US covered in other parts of the word? We'll be joined by the New York Review of Books' Jeff Madrick and Alternet's Josh Holland and Guardian's Zoe Williams. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeff Madrick, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Joshua Holland, an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.

Zoe Williams, a columnist for the Guardian of London

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of President Obama's Jobs bill, which failed in the Senate, and the NAFTA-style Free Trade Agreements, which passed the House and Senate. We will also talk about bills signed by California Governor Jerry Brown and recent protests in Egypt that left 25 people dead. We'll be joined by the Ventura County Star's Timm Herdt, Jadalyyia's Hesham Sallam and Huffington Post's Arthur Delany. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Hesham Sallam, Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine

Arthur Delaney, reporter with Huffington Post

Timm Herdt, State Editor of the Ventura County Star

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of the Republican primary race, the continuing protests on Wall Street, the debt crisis in Europe, and the ten year anniversary of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. We'll be joined by independent journalist Mark Hertsgaard, Guardian columnist Jonathan Steele--whose latest book Ghosts of Afghanistan was published earlier this month--and Anand Gopal, who covers Afghanistan and Egypt. Join us live at 10 or send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guests:

Mark Hertsgaard, an independent journalist whose most recent story for Salon.com details how Mitt Romney helped Rick Perry break the law by channelling illicit campaign contributions.

Jonathan Steele, Guardian columnist and foreign correspondent, whose latest book Ghosts of Afghanistan was published earlier this month.

Anand Gopal, a writer and journalist who covers Afghanistan and Egypt for a number of newspapers and magazines

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of continuing protests on Wall Street and the investigation into work conditions in the Amazon warehouse in Allentown, Pennsylvania. We'll be joined by Indypendent newspaper's Arun Gupta, Morning Call's Spencer Soper and Alternative's David Barsamain. He was recently deported from India. Join us live at 10 or send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Arun Gupta, a founding editor of The Indypendent newspaper.

David Barsamian, the founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent weekly audio series based in Boulder, Colorado.

Spencer Soper, business reporter for the Morning Call in Allentown, PA

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the execution of Troy Davis. How are the media discussing racial injustice and the death penalty? We'll also discuss the political situation in Bahrain. We'll be joined by the Black Agenda Report's Bruce Dixon, independent journalist and filmmaker Jen Marlowe and Bahraini journalist Nada Alwadi. Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Nada Alwadi, an independent journalist based in Bahrain

Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report's managing editor

Jen Marlowe, an independent journalist and filmmaker

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of the 10th anniverary of 9/11. How has reporting changed in the past decade in the US and abroad? We'll also discuss coverage of President Obama's jobs speech and unemployment. We'll be joined by the Sydney Morning Herald's Paul McGeough, McClatchy's Kevin Hall and independent journalist Aunohita Mojumdar join us from Kabul. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kevin Hall, the national economics reporter for McClatchy Newspapers

Paul McGeough, chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald

Aunohita Mojumdar, an independent journalist based in Kabul

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of Dick Cheney's memoir. What questions should reporters be asking? We'll also consider the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing protests in Chile. We'll be joined by The Nation's John Nichols, Loop21's Brentin Mock and independent journalist Caroline Lewis joins us from Santiago de Chile. Tune in live at 10 or send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Malihe Razazan and you.

Guests:
Caroline Lewis, a Fulbright scholar living in Santiago and researching the formation of news chains among community media outlets in Chile. She has reported on social movements for independent media outlets in both Spanish and English.

John Nichols, The Nation's Washington correspondent

Brentin Mock, senior editor at Loop21.com, a leading African-American website for economic and political news and culture

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week we'll discuss coverage of the protests in DC to Stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. We'll also discuss the challenges journalists face in Libya. We'll be joined by Center for Investigative Reporting's Mark Schapiro, Mother Jones environment reporter Kate Sheppard and Guardian's Africa correspondent David Smith. Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Mark Schapiro, the senior correspondent with the Center for Investigative Reporting

Kate Sheppard, covers energy and environmental politics in Mother Jones' Washington bureau

David Smith, the Guardian's Africa correspondent

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll discuss coverage of Governor Rick Perry's record in Texas. We'll also talk about the long-term impacts of unemployment and the wealth gap and the US asking Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. We'll be joined by LA Times's Borzou Daragahi, The Atlantic's Don Peck and The Texas Independent's Mary Tuma. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Borzou Daragahi, LA Times staff writer based in Beirut, Lebanon

Don Peck is a features editor of The Atlantic and author
of Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It.

Mary Tumma, a reporter with Texas Independent

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the unrest in London and the S&P's decision to lower the US credit rating. We'll also talk about Texas Governor Rick Perry's prayer rally. More people attended a back to school event for the poor down the street. We'll be joined by the Houston Chronicle's Carol Christian and the New York Review of Books contributor Jeff Madrick and Guardian's Zoe Williams. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeff Madrick, a regulator contributor to The New York Review of Books. His latest book is Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present.

Zoe Williams, a Guardian columnist

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of ALEC's annual meeting in New Orleans. That's the American Legislative Exchange Council. We'll also talk about the brutal government crackdown in Syria. We'll be joined by Propublica's Lois Beckett, investigative journalist Will Potter, and Borzou Daragahi of the LA Times joins us from Beirut. Tune in live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Borzou Daragahi, LA Times staff writer based in Beirut, Lebanon

Lois Beckett, a reporter with Propublica an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Will Potter, an investigative journalist and author

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it our Friday media roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of a possible government default and the relationship between taxes and jobs. We will also discuss media coverage of the massacre in Norway. We'll be joined by McClatchy's Kevin Hall, freelance writer Paul Tullis and Roger Cohen of the New York Times joins us from London. Join us live at 10 or send us and email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Paul Tullis, an independent journalist who writes on policy, politics, science and culture.

Roger Cohen, a columnist for The New York Times and International Herald Tribune.

Kevin G. Hall, the national economics reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, based in Washington, D.C.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the debt ceiling debate and President Obama's decision to remove Elizabeth Warren's nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We'll also discuss the current situation in Libya. We'll be joined by Alternet's Joshua Holland, ProPublica's Jake Bernstein and the Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders. Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jake Bernstein, a business and financial reporter for ProPublica.

Joshua Holland, an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.

Doug Saunders, the London-based European bureau chief for The Globe and Mail and author of Arrival City.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the latest jobs numbers. Economists said the bad news caught them offguard. How did the media respond? We will also talk about widening investigations into Rupert Murdock's phone hacking scandal. We'll be joined by The Huffington Post's Arthur Delaney, New York Review of Books' Jeff Madrick and The Independent's Archie Bland. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Arthur Delaney, economic reporter with The Huffington Post

Jeff Madrick, a contributor to The New York Review of Books. His new book is Age of Greed, The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to Present.

Archie Bland is foreign editor at the Independent and also writes for Columbia Journalism Review.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the government shutdown in Minnesota and massive budget cuts in forty-six states. How are journalists covering these cuts? We'll also speak about the phone-hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdock's News of the World in the UK. We'll be joined by Minnesota Independent's Sam Lane, Ventura County Star's Timm Herdt and Aljazeera's Richard Gizbert. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sam Lane, a reporter with The Minnesota Independent

Richard Gizbert, host of Listening Post, the media watch broadcast on Al Jazeera English

Timm Herdt, The Ventura County Star's Sacramento Bureau Chief

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of California's $86 billion budget and the wave of anti immigrant laws across the country. We'll also talk about Christine Lagarde's appointment to head the IMF. We'll be joined by Calitics' Brian Leubitz, independent journalist Valeria Fernndez, and Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders. Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guests:
Brian Leubitz, the Publisher & Editor Calitics.com, a progressive blog about California politics

Doug Saunders, the European Bureau Chief with The Globe and Mail

Valeria Fernandez, a phoenix-based journalist who writes about immigration

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the US Supreme Court decision in Dukes v. Wal-Mart. We'll also talk about President Obama's speech on Afghanistan. How is the media covering US strategy in that country? We'll be joined by Slate senior editor Dahlia Lithwick, Huffington Post's Lila Shapiro and veteran journalist Elizabeth Gould. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Malihe Razazan and you.

Guests:
Lila Shapiro, a Business Writer at the Huffington Post

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches."

Elizabeth Gould is a veteran journalist and author. She has spent the last thirty years covering Afghanistan.

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