On Point | Podcast
Hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti · WBUR
4.3from 4,365 ratings
- 1,222
- Episodes
- 823
- Transcribed
- 4,365
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 21M
- YouTube views
About On Point | Podcast
Get ready for your aha moment: Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti pierces your news bubble to expose the whole story. Getting answers to the questions that need to be asked, examining our history and the human condition. No topic is too complicated or off the table. It’s all On Point.
- Publisher
- WBUR
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Aug 2022
- Latest episode
- 6 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
823 of 1,222 episodes have a transcript.
6 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
How AI deepfakes are upending political advertising
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
What should Democrats in Congress do now?
4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
What voters really wanted this election cycle
Inside a recent episode
How AI deepfakes are upending political advertising
Published 6 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And then the answer there is stop getting your news and information from social media. If you want to be lied to and you want to be deceived and defrauded, sure, by all means, spend more time on X and Facebook and Instagram and YouTube and TikTok. But if you want to be an informed citizen, get off of social media. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Jack Beatty
- Min Jin Lee
- Isabella Weber
- Joe Cirincione
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 21,093,030
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 3,939 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 426 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 93
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Who hosts On Point | Podcast?
Meghna Chakrabarti host the show. Published by WBUR.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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