- 338
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 93
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About The Kicker
The Kicker is a podcast on the media and the world today. It comes out twice a month, hosted by Megan Greenwell and produced by Amanda Darrach for the Columbia Journalism Review. It is available wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kicker/id1178127323), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/5E5WVPzob4xxHEnAjfHpVX?si=66caaf7ea4734f8e), and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@CJRMag).
- Publisher
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Nov 2016
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 338 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
California’s Big Bet on Government-Funded News
1 Oct 2026
A Victim of the ‘Elon Musk Playbook’
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ruth Ann Harnisch on life as the fairy godmother of newsletters, podcasts, and blogs.
Inside a recent episode
California’s Big Bet on Government-Funded News
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And for anyone who's been a city hall journalist who spend a lot of time covering local government, you kind of start to realize how few people are watching and how much impact that your work can have when you just start asking some questions or paying attention to stuff. over time. So it's something that journalists do intuitively understand when they are, you know, the only ones covering a local government agency and they come across that document about, you know, a contract that was awarded improperly or, you know, the project that kept having cost overruns that sent it spiraling and someone's been not doing a great job because, you know, they hired their brother or whatever. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Ruth Ann Harnisch
- Anna Sproul-Latimer
- Kenya Hunter
- Deb Perelman
- Olivia Messer
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 78 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 15 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 80
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes bi-weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does The Kicker take guests?
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