The Listening Post

The Listening Post examines the dominant themes in the news coverage surrounding the notorious French magazine.

Despite the attack that claimed ten lives at the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, the publication returned to the newsstands one week later. The debates taking place around this story came in myriad forms: news conferences, editorials, blogs, broadcasts and evermore cartoons. Feature: The story of the Hollywood movie The Interview, North Korea and the hacking of Sony Pictures made news and a fair amount of gossip around the world, but it also revealed a lot about the way journalists report on intelligence matters.

Debating free speech in the wake of Charlie Hebdo; plus, the relevance of impartiality and objectivity in journalism. France has a tradition of satire that shocks and savages - to an extent that would not be tolerated in other so-called liberal democracies. There is nothing that justifies the murder of any journalist or cartoonist over their work, but this is a story in need of explanation. Helping us to do that this week is Padraig Reidy from the campaign group 89up; Anna Reading, a professor at Kings College London; writer and academic Richard Seymour; and Alain Gresh, the editor of Le Monde Diplomatique.

The Listening Post offers its predictions for media and journalism in the year to come.

Annual producers' special from Spain, Tunisia, Japan and Hong Kong. - Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check out our website:http://www.aljazeera.com/

When news of the hostage taking in Sydney broke on December 15, 2014, reporters trying to cover the story were scrambling for scarce and valuable commodities: the facts. The Listening Post looks at the Sydney siege coverage - a lesson from Australia in how not to cover breaking news; plus, an interview with 'Rogue Reporter' Rich Peppiatt. - Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check out our website:http://www.aljazeera.com/

Examining the media coverage of the CIA torture report release; plus, the ethics of graphic imagery in the news media.

How the EU takes on Google's monopoly as gatekeeper of information; plus, a look at media under pressure in Hungary. - Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check out our website:http://www.aljazeera.com/

The Listening Post examines the news coverage of race in the US; plus, fonts and the news media. Talking to us about the Ferguson story this week are: Malkia Cyril, founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice who has led a number of campaigns for racial and economic justice; journalist Mikki Kendall who writes about race and feminist issues; veteran journalist Richard Prince, from the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. Prince is known for a landmark complaint he brought against discriminatory practices at the Washington Post in 1972; and Sarah Kendzior, a reporter and anthropologist who has been named the best online journalist in St Louis. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website http://www.aljazeera.com/

The media war in Syria is putting truth under pressure. And, Tunisian media's obsession with terrorism. - Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check out our website:http://www.aljazeera.com/

Sorting out the science from the scare tactics - we examine the Ebola stories coming out of Africa. Helping us assess the media coverage of the ebola outbreak are: Robtel Pailey, an academic and researcher based in Liberia; Abdullai Kamara, the president of the Press Union of Liberia; Foreign Policy columnist, Kaleev Leetaru; Sorious Samura, an African filmmaker and journalist; and Rodney Sieh, the editor of the online newspaper, Front Page Africa. Listening Post's feature investigates the relationship between PR firms and image-conscious governments - and how they use the media to do their work.

A Listening Post special on the global media battle taking place parallel to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

A Listening special on the evolving role of satire and the satirists who are holding power to account. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website http://www.aljazeera.com/

A Listening Post special on the 'Snowden effect' and challenges to the media in the age of state supervision. We spoke to journalists and technologists at the forefront of the effort to keep our communications - both the content and its related metadata - unavailable to the governments who might take advantage of them. With their help, this special edition of the Listening Post introduces systems such as PGP, TOR and SecureDrop - all essential tools for the security conscious journalist and for whistleblowers who want to keep their identities under wraps.

An interview with Nick Davies, the reporter who exposed the British phone hacking scandal. He exposed one of the biggest scandals in recent British political history. Nick Davies, the journalist who laid bare a political controversy that reached into multiple British institutions and painted a picture of a news organisation so powerful that those institutions, including parliament, police and the rest of the British media, dared not take it on. Richard Gizbert sat down with Nick Davies to discuss the story, the power of fear and the future of the Murdoch media empire, which lies disgraced, but by no means defeated. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/