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In Reality
“In Reality” debunks fake news and elevates the innovative researchers, entrepreneurs, journalists and policymakers who are fighting back against toxic misinformation. Co-hosts Joan Donovan, research director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media and Public Policy, and Eric Schurenberg, an award-winning journalist and former CEO of Fast Company, engage guests in enlightening conversations about solutions to this scourge and the path back to a shared reality.
Episodes
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Wait... Americans Don't Trust the Press To Say Who Won The Election? | Media Engagement Expert Stephanie Edgerly from Medill School of Journalism
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media. I'm Eric Schoenberg, a longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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What It Means To Be "Media Literate" with Top Expert Dr. Michael Spikes (Northwestern University)
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media. I'm Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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What the Founders Got Right (and Wrong) About the First Amendment with Pulitzer Prize Winner Jack Rakove
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schoenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder of…
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Can You Be A Journalist Without A Newsroom? Rachel Lobdell: News Creator Corps Executive Director
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg—longtime journalist and media executive, now founder of the…
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Heart vs. Head: How to Actually Get Things Done in a Diverse Democracy with the Civity Founders
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation and the media with host Eric Schurenberg, long time journalist, now the founder of the Alliance…
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What Really Works To Bridge Political Divides with 'Our Common Bonds' Author Matthew Levendusky
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, longtime media executive, and now the founder of the…
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Politics Without Polarization in Iowa with Governor Candidate Rob Sand (Democrat)
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now founder of…
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The Delicate Art of Managing Reputation in the Age of AI with Featured's Brett Farmiloe
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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The Way Back to Truth as We Once Knew It with 'The Future of Truth' Author Steven Rosenbaum
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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12 Years at War Against Misinformation - Renée DiResta. Author of 'Invisible Rulers'
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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The Kinds of Stories that Bridge Political Divides. Melody Mohebi (Democracy 2076) & Brian Waniewski (Harmony Labs)
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schoenberg, a longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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You Are Not Thinking As Clearly As You Think - with 'Good Thinking' Author David Robert Grimes
Welcome to In Reality—the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, long-time journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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In Democracy, You Can’t Avoid Conflicts. You Have To Just Do Them Better - Jonathan Stray
It’s pretty much a cliché to say that Americans live in two separate political realities. We shout at each other from our separate bunkers, unable to agree…
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Big Tech VS Euro Regulators - Guess Who's Winning. With John O'Brennan from Maynooth University in Ireland
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, founder of the Alliance for Trust in Media. On In Reality…
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A Sheriff for the Digital Wild West with Top Digital Crime Fighter Carole House
Welcome to In Reality—the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, long-time journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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How AI Changes Voters' Minds with Oxford University's Kobi Hackenburg
Welcome to In Reality the podcast about truth disinformation and the media with Eric Schurenberg, long time journalist and media executive, now the founder of…
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We In The Press Could Do A Lot Of Things Better: Steve Peoples Chief Political Writer of The Associated Press
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, long-time business journalist and executive, now the…
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Without Federal Funding, What is Public Media Really? KCRW President Jennifer Ferro
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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Courtney Radsch: Information is an Ecosystem. Without Journalism, It Collapses
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg—longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder of…
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Understanding The Stories That Divide Us with Harmony Labs' Brian Waniewski
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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How To Think Clearly About The News In Your Feed with 'Effective Thinking' Expert Michael Starbird
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with host, Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now founder…
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Politics Without Polarization in Iowa with Governor Candidate Rob Sand (Democrat)
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now founder of…
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Signs of Revival In Local News. No, Really! - Indiegraf's Erin Millar
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media hosted by Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and media executive, now founder…
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"What Journalism Needs Now Is Not What Journalists Think" with Richard Gingras (Google & Village Media) and Tom Rosenstiel (UMD)
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media with Eric Schurenberg, long-time journalist and media executive, now the founder…
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AI In The Newsroom: The Humanoid In The Loop with Perplexity AI's Jessica Chan and Troy Thibodeaux from the Associated Press
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media. I’m your host, Eric Schurenberg, long-time journalist and media executive, now…
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Three Top Influencers on Building Trust Amid the Chaos: Kate Bacon, David Pakman, and Eric Newcomer
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media. I’m your host, Eric Schurenberg, a longtime journalist and media executive, now…
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How Media Makes Money Today (It's Not Easy) with CEO of The Meteor Cindi Leive
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation, and the media. I’m Eric Schurenberg, longtime journalist and founder of the Alliance for Trust…
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What Are You Really Seeking When You Click On News? University of Delaware's Prof Dannagal Young
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation and the media with Eric Schurenberg, a longtime journalist, now executive director of the…
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First Aid for the Local News Emergency with Local News Accelerator Mackenzie Warren (Northwestern University)
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation and the media. I’m your host Eric Schurenberg, long time journalist and media executive, now the…
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If News Is So Important, Why Can't It Make Money? with Historic Media Executive Norman Pearlstine
Americans have long had a conflicted attitude about political news. On the one hand, most Americans, Republicans and Democrats, see the press as an essential…
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The Rise of the Personal Media Brand with Eric Newcomer Founder of the Newcomer Media Outlet
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation and the media hosted by Eric Schurenberg, a long-time journalist and media executive, now the…
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In Democracy, You Can’t Avoid Conflicts. You Have To Just Do Them Better, with Human-Compatible AI Expert Jonathan Stray
In this conversation, Jonathan Stray, Senior Scientist at the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI, explains to Eric Schurenberg the intersection of AI…
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One Man’s Plan To Rebuild Atlanta’s Hometown Newsroom: The AJC’s President Andrew Morse
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about Truth, Disinformation, and the Media hosted by Eric Schurenberg, a long-time journalist and media exec, now the…
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How To Talk With (& Listen To) The Other Side with 'The Fearless Conversationalist' Mónica Guzmán
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about Truth, Disinformation and the Media with Eric Schurenberg, a long-time journalist and media exec, now the founder of…
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The Other AI Arms Race: "Defender" AI vs Deepfakes - Reality Defender CEO Ben Colman
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about Truth, Disinformation, and the Media. I'm Eric Schurenberg, a long-time journalist and media exec, now the founder of…
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Why Influencers Have Trust and Journalists Don’t with 'The Future of Trustworthy Information' Author Julia Angwin
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth and the media with Eric Schurenberg, a long-time journalist and media exec, now the founder of the Alliance for…
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Is Truth Dead? With Co-Founder of NewsGuard Steven Brill
Welcome to in Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation and the media. I’m your host Eric Schurenberg, a long-time journalist and media executive, now…
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How To Judge The Truth of Any Claim in 30 Seconds with Top Critical Thinking Expert Mike Caulfield
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation and the media with your host Eric Schurenberg, a long time journalist and media executive, now…
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Battered But Still Hopeful, The Guardians of a Civil Internet with Integrity Institute's Jeff Allen
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast on truth, disinformation and the media. I’m your host Eric Schurenberg, a former journalist and media exec, now the founder…
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One Way To Win An Information War with The Autocracy Expert Peter Pomerantsev
In our free-for-all information ecosystem, the liars have the inside track. It’s much easier to make up outrageous claims about, say, migrants than it is to…
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How To Stop Worrying and Love Media Bias with AllSides Co-founder John Gable
People say they long for that misty past when the news was just the facts, but that never was, of course. Newsrooms are human organizations and journalists are…
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In A Less Misinformed World, Would Harris Have Won? With Top Journalists Paul Farhi, Nayeema Raza, and Isaac Saul
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation and the media, with Eric Schurenberg - the founder of the Alliance for Trust in Media. This…
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The Most Dishonest Campaign Ever? with Politifact's Katie Sanders
The US election, which takes place the day after this episode releases, has been the most fact-challenged election in recent memory. Compared to, say, four…
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X, Lies, and Video Fakes in the 2024 Election with Nina Jankowicz and Yoel Roth
We’ve seen social media disrupt elections before, but this time feels louder, angrier. Maybe it’s the retreat of content moderators, maybe the metamorphosis of…
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What The Polls Are Really Telling You with Pew Research Center's Jocelyn Kiley
At this moment, weeks shy of the 2024 election, the polls are showing that the race between Trump and Harris is neck and neck. It’s tight nationally. It’s…
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Media Bias: Left and Right with CNN's Brian Stelter and The Dispatch's Jonah Goldberg
It has become general wisdom in these polarized times that all the news you consume is slanted one way or another. The New York Times is not all the news…
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How Free Societies Decide What's Real with Brookings Institution's Jonathan Rauch
The goal of modern disinformation campaigns is not necessarily to turn audiences into true believers but rather to turn them into cynics, to persuade them that…
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The Original Fact Checker: How To Know What's True with The Post's Glenn Kessler (Election Repost)
In Reality is taking a summer break, so this is an episode we’ve posted before, but I thought that in the middle of a US Presidential campaign, it might be a…
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Is The Rise of MAGA a Failure of Journalism? The University of Texas at Austin's Tom Johnson
People have a lot of complaints about media in these polarized times. Take your pick: The mainstream press is biased, elitist, sensationalistic…
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How To Immunize Your Mind Against False Beliefs with Carnegie Mellon University's Andy Norman
Today's guest is Andy Norman, philosophy professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of a fascinating book, Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind…
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Want to Understand Today’s Political Debate? Study PsyOps: Sci-fi Author & Science Journalist Annalee Newitzs
Find this week's episode description below... Join Eric's 'Truth, Disinformation & The 2024 Election' Class at The University of Chicago It’s open to everyone…
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Using the Tools of Tech to Hold Big Tech Accountable with Pulitzer-Winner & Proof News Founder Julia Angwin
Misinformation, rumor, psy-ops and propaganda--whatever you want to call the four horsemen of today’s media apocalypse—have been with us as long as the media…
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The Original Fact Checker: How To Know What's True with The Post's Glenn Kessler
Finding your way to the truth is the informal job of the 21st-century citizen. All of us. Unless you want to be manipulated, you need some check on the claims…
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The Lost Art of Civil Discourse with Clea Conner CEO of Open to Debate
Any institution that aspires to get at the truth needs a process for testing what it believes to be true. Central to the judicial system, for example, are…
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The Logic Behind Illogical Ideologies: Pepperdine University's Jason Blakely
The political landscape in the US has fragmented into a handful of beliefs, the adherents to which have less and less in common, other than a profound…
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Destroying The Internet In Order To Save It: Project Liberty's Frank McCourt
The guests who come on In Reality come prepared to talk about big issues. Truth, polarization, the information ecosystem: these are not exactly niche issues…
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How Newsrooms Decide What's True: Former Editor of the Washington Post Martin Baron
To figure out what’s true and what’s not in today’s chaotic, fragmented, contradictory information environment, all of us news consumers have to think like…
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The Saboteurs Within: University of Michigan's Barbara McQuade
For decades, America’s foreign adversaries have used disinformation to undermine American democracy, to sow division and create confusion about what is even…
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Why We're Losing the Misinformation War: The Information Futures Lab's Claire Wardle
It was eight years ago, when Brexit and the US Presidential election showed how misinformation enables real-world damage. Since then, researchers, content…
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Stopping Misinformation At The Gate: News Literacy Project's Peter Adams
Welcome to In Reality, the podcast about truth, disinformation and the media with Eric Schurenberg, a long time journalist and media executive, now the founder…