Citizen Reporter
200 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe podcast that listens to people around the world.
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The Summer of 2001 Through 2024 Ears
May 18, 2024 22:02 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBIm in the kitchen preparing a meal for the family with just enough time to describe a little radio activity I've been working on. It involves listening back to talk radio programs from the end of the summer of 2001 and the leadup to 9/11. Hearing how people spoke and thought back then which is, of course, extremely familiar as I was there and these programs are from my home region. All this through the lens of what we are living through in 2024 and the ways we think and function now. Some pe...
Dark Days: A Traditional Monologue Episode
October 26, 2023 21:41 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MBInstead of the interview style podcasts this program has been about for almost 2 decades, today we're back to the other great tradition of old school personal publishing --- the monologue.
Janelle Ward: The Shifting Sands of Social Media
April 14, 2023 11:40 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBJanelle Ward and I were once eager grad students at the University of Amsterdam where we dove head first into the world of personal publishing before most of the world had any idea what this was or why it would matter. 20+ years later, we are communications professionals, somehow still sitting in the Netherlands, watching events unfold online and offline. The past few months, with the growing unrest and major changes taking place at social media companies, we wonder if this is a major mom...
Matthew Dons: Making Cancer History
December 07, 2022 15:03 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBMatthew Dons is back! And after having been diagnosed with terminal cancer over 6 years ago; that's saying something! Today on the program we continue to follow his story of life, not after cancer, but with cancer. Including the launch of his new online course to help combat the misinformation that has found its way into every corner of the internet. "Making Cancer History" is the course he is teaching and tune in to hear why people all over the world are participating.
Trui Hanoulle: Women Who Dare To Move
August 22, 2022 09:19 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBFor Trui Hanoulle it started as an interest in going places and learning about people. Over the past two decades what followed became a life’s work; to gather stories about women who dare to move even in the face of prejudice, stereotypes, and other elements of gender barriers. Today on the podcast Trui joins me to talk about her mission and what she has seen and learned from the back of a motorcycle across continents and within cultures that many of us do not often hear from. She has also...
Iuliia Skubytska: War Childhood Museum Ukraine
June 28, 2022 20:29 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBToday on the podcast we are joined by the Ukraine director of the War Childhood Museum, to hear about the work they do and how it is being impacted by the ongoing invasion. I’d like to also inform you that if you appreciate the unique and impactful work they are doing, they could really use your help. Please go to warchildhood.org to find out how to make a monetary donation.
On Becoming a Father and The Invasion of Ukraine
February 28, 2022 22:28 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBIn a time of so much frustration, confusion and despair - a podcast is always appropriate. Especially when you couple that with the backdrop that this month I also became a father! So much joy on the one hand, so much struggle on the other, and then you have the incredibly unjust world taking another horrible turn. This monologue is the story of the rollercoaster month it has been and the mounting questions that obviously I am not equipped to answer but that doesn’t stop me from trying.
Elmine Wijnia: The Big Life Changes Conversation
January 29, 2022 20:29 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBLegendary blogger, writer, crtical thinker and my friend of many years — Elmine Wijnia joins me to talk about the big life changes, be in location, the insane buying of a new home, the having of a kid, and all that stuff that sometimes happens in this life. Listen in and join us as we reflect on the how and why of choices made and journeys taken.
Christopher Lydon: The State of the World 2021
December 03, 2021 23:36 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBOnce a year I have the great pleasure of spending a few days in Boston with my dear friend and audio legend Christopher Lydon. We listen to Duke Ellington, pour over audio for his next program, and find time to turn on the microphone and have our “state of the world” conversation. Having missed our standing appointment during the pandemic, this year I managed to cautiously get back to Boston, back to my happy place; sitting across from Chris and discussing life. Today on the podcast, it’s t...
Tara Brown and Sean Bonner: Exploring The World of NFT's
October 27, 2021 21:08 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBTara Brown and Sean Bonner are some of the most creative and curious people I’ve ever known. Among the many things they are fascinated by, there are NFT’s; which coincidentally have also become something of a curiousity over the past years. Today on the podcast, to better understand NFT’s and what is possible and where the conversations around them have gone and could yet go, Tara and Sean are my guests. Have a listen!
Kaustuv Pokhrel: Do Whatever You Can Wherever You Are
August 01, 2021 16:23 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBKaustuv Pokhrel's path as an activist and advocate for young people has taken many interesting and unexpected turns. As the most recent lockdown in Nepal grew ever longer, we decided it was a good time to sit down and record these stories of his work as both a radio host and an organizer around youth, identity and self-expression. Listen in and enjoy!
Matthew Dons: Reflections on Remaining Alive
July 21, 2021 20:54 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBMatthew Dons was told five years ago that he had less than one year to live. 5 years later, he is still living with terminal cancer. The struggle has not gotten easier yet at the same time Matthew has gained a wealth of knowledge about health care costs, cancer treatment options, humanity and I would argue… life itself. Today on the program, recorded some weeks before his major surgery he is struggling to recover from currently, we talk about these past 5 years, and we also discuss the recen...
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: Places Sound Takes You
May 08, 2021 20:12 - 53 minutes - 49.8 MBPicture it: You meet someone new who introduces themselves to you. You proceed to start a conversation, but this person's voice sounds exactly like that of a childhood friend. In that moment, although you're supposed to be listening to the conversation, you're also thinking back to those days and that person. You're there but you're somewhere else. Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is very interested in the "somewhere else" that sound can take us to. As an artist, researcher, writer and theorist, Budh...
Madge Weinstein: Cancelled Friendships and Thus and So
April 11, 2021 16:50 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBLegendary podcaster and esteemed political commentator Madge Weinstein returns to the program to update the gentle audience on what life is like when there are vaccines for covid but people somehow still manage to make each other sick.
Bilal Ghalib: Building Deeper Relationships
April 04, 2021 20:53 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBBeyond the loss, the distance, and the isolation brought on by the global pandemic, Bilal Ghalib has found creative and effective ways to keep learning; about himself, his loved ones, and humans in general. He also has never stopped experimenting with ways of connecting with people or tapping into his own talents and fears. Today on the podcast, we spend the hour speaking with Bilal about his reflections over the past year, what he has figured out and what he struggles with. We tackle histor...
David Brightbill: Floridians Behaving Badly and other Vaccine Stories
March 09, 2021 21:58 - 55 minutes - 51.7 MBWhen the global pandemic broke out, Davey Brightbill was struggling to make it home to his cooperative community in Florida. In the months that followed he faced a personal health scare and the more well known shortages of PPE among first responders in his region and across the country. Now over a year into the pandemic, he is part of a network of maker spaces that rose to the occasion - providing that much needed equipment. He has also navigated, like so many senior citizens, the new world ...
Madhavan Pillai: Decolonizing Photography in India
January 24, 2021 17:40 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBBack in the winter of 2016, Madhavan Pillai welcomed me with open arms and warm conversations in the mountainous tranquility of Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India. He was new to the city and we talked about the kinds of projects in art and photography that he hoped to make a reality for the community. 4 years later, Maddy’s creativity and commitment is as contageous as ever. Today on the podcast, Madhavan Pillai speaks about his experiences over these past years, and his current project called “People ...
Vin from Jersey: The Chaos of Certification Day
January 11, 2021 23:05 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBWhen you’re conerned about the state of the legislative and executive branch following a horrendous attack on congress - call Vin from Jersey, he’ll straighten us all out.
Alexander Rendeiro: Being a Teenager in Corona Times
December 30, 2020 14:46 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBIn the spirit of celebrating the holidays and spending time, virtually, with your loved ones, this holiday edition of CTRP features an interview with my nephew: Alexander Rendeiro. Since we can't be together in person, he joins me from New Jersey to discuss what his year has been like as a high school student and an avid connaisseur of music, gaming, and all things internet. But not cereal. Don't ever ask him about cereal.
Michael Schaap:The Impact of Election 2020
December 24, 2020 13:41 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBMichael Schaap is a documentary maker, a voice over artist, and an arm-chair historian who I have had the pleasure of knowing for almost two decades. For the past four years he has been watching in frustration and sadness as the US and the rest of the world, walk down a dangerous path not unlike what we've seen before. Today on the podcast, an end of the year, Hanakkuh-Christmas-Kwanzaa-Festivus special looking at the glboal impact of the election in the US. And like every good holiday film, ...
Shafiur Rahman: Rohingya Refugees in Covid Times
December 07, 2020 14:43 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBOver the past 4 years documentary film maker Shafiur Rahman has been regularly back and forth from his home in the UK to the Rohingya Refugee camps in Bangladesh. Until the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Now 10 months into this global crisis on top of an already nightmarish situation for millions of Rohingya people, Shafiur has used these months to find new and creative ways of raising awareness and helping improve life for refugees living in the camps. Today on the podcast, we talk about the situ...
John Aravosis: Things You Never Thought Would Happen in America
September 07, 2020 20:09 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBJohn Aravosis has been fighting for a better country and a better world for over 30 years. As a journalist and a commentator, despite all his experience, he says there has never been anything as confounding and threatening as the current president of the United States. Scary times in America. Yet somewhere in the madness, John also talks about where he finds hope, possibility, and humor. Today on the podcast we hear about what he's seeing in Washington DC, and talk about the state of the me...
Noni Shakur: A Time Without Hugs in South Africa
July 30, 2020 13:31 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBSouth Africa is not a place where keeping a distance from one another matches the traditions of how communities have survived and thrived for generations. But since March of this year, the nation has lived with restrictions, lockdowns, closures and limits of social activities familiar to many people around the world. Meanwhile, the ongoing struggle with gender based violence rages on, though it is not clear if this is a new chapter with real change on the horizon or just a continuation of inj...
Tim from Radio Clash: The Sounds of a Pandemic
July 02, 2020 21:31 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBThe longest running mashup podcast in the world started in London under the name Radio Clash where to this day Tim sits behind the mic. A member of the original podcasters generation, he has seen trends emerge and disappear, crises, change, the good the bad… the odd.. all of it. And then came Covid19. Today on the podcast, from Lockdown London, it's Tim from Radio Clash to talk music, politics, culture, gentrification, London, BLM, and more.
Cornelius Kibelka: Politicizing a Virus in Brazil
June 17, 2020 19:01 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBCornelius Kibelka somehow got on the last flight from Europe to Brazil before they closed the border earlier this year. Upon arrival he was greeted by a São Paulo under lockdown, and a nation deeply divided about how to deal with a virus along political lines. Today on the podcast he tells us what he is seeing, feeling and hearing in the most populous city in Brazil and what it all might mean for the weeks and months to come.
Ruud Elmendorp: East Africa in Corona Times
June 08, 2020 16:31 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBBefore there was youtube, twitter, or any other major platform for sharing video content, Ruud Elmendorp was producing content from the continent of Africa for the internet. His focus, then and now: everyday life. With the onset of the global pandemic, Ruud is where he has been for the past two decades, trying to report on daily life from a region that doesn't get the global headlines that North America and Europe do. Today on the podcast, Ruud Elmendorp joins us from Tanzania, to talk about...
Lorena de la Parra: Corona Mode in Mexico City
May 26, 2020 16:01 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBMexico City is big, heavily populated, exciting, dangerous, and poluted thanks in part to all of the above. Along came a pandemic. Today on the podcast Lorena de la Parra takes us through her daily life and what she sees happening in CDMX, from the price of masks to the phenomenon that is López-Gatel. Listen and enjoy.
Tony Pierce: How LA Handles a Pandemic
May 08, 2020 16:59 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBTony Pierce talks to people for a living. They tell him about how life is these days, what jobs they do, what challenges they face, and probably much more. As a longtime resident of LA and blogger extraordinaire, who better to hear from during a pandemic to learn how life is for Angelinos. Today on the podcast, we spend the hour with the great Tony Pierce!
Leanne Kubicz: The Kansas City Covid Story
May 01, 2020 12:53 - 1 hour - 63 MBDuring this time of Corona around the world, there are some stories you hear over and over; political manuvering, some scientific explanations, the occasional story about a medical worker in a well known metropolitan area. Then there are the stories you will rarely hear: about cities with less than 1 million people, about professions like librarians - who play an essential role in daily American society during non pandemic times. Today on the podcast we hear from my good friend Leanne Kubicz ...
Fiona Krakenbürger: Fermenting in Berlin & Corona Concerns
April 15, 2020 17:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBFiona Krakenbürger knows her home town of Berlin under normal circumstances and now knows it during Covid19 times. Whats the difference? Today on the podcast we get into Berlin over the past weeks as well as uncovering what has been going on in DC over the past months (for her). Along the way we talk about Planet Money, sourdough, serious concerns for at-risk groups, hackerspaces, ultimate frisbee, and home office politics. Very pleased to have this podcast with Fiona to share with all of yo...
Dilip D’Souza: Corona Times Mumbai and Other Mathematical Equations
April 06, 2020 21:48 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBIf you told me while I was visiting Mumbai some years ago, that in 2020 a city of 20 million people would have deserted streets and closed restaurants, I would have argued that such a thing is simply not possible. Yet here we are. Mumbai, like the rest of India, is self-isolating and battening down the hatches for what is sure to be a very difficult battle with Covid-19. The award winning writer and journalist Dilip D'Souza is experiencing this hard-to-believe reality first hand from his ...
Dilip D'Souza: Corona Times Mumbai and Other Mathematical Equations
April 06, 2020 21:48 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBIf you told me while I was visiting Mumbai some years ago, that in 2020 a city of 20 million people would have deserted streets and closed restaurants, I would have argued that such a thing is simply not possible. Yet here we are. Mumbai, like the rest of India, is self-isolating and battening down the hatches for what is sure to be a very difficult battle with Covid-19. The award winning writer and journalist Dilip D'Souza is experiencing this hard-to-believe reality first hand from his ...
Maasai Women: Creators of Culture, Keepers of Knowledge
March 28, 2020 15:31 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBIf you want to talk about decolonizing museums and other knowledge institutions in this world then you need to speak with those who preserve, produce, and pass on culture. In the fascinating and complex case of the Maasai and their engagement with museums in the UK, it is women who play an essential role in knowing about what an artifact is, how it is made, and why it is important. Despite this fact, in this growing global conversation, the voices we more often hear are male.
Jay Dedman: Rural America in Pandemic Times
March 25, 2020 16:19 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBJay Dedman joins me on the podcast today from his home in Western Virginia, where land is plentiful and incomes are on average a bit lower than in the big city. What is happening in rural America during this global emegency, what does he see and what can we decipher when comparing countries, cities, counties, leaders, culture… any and all of it. Also zombies.
Matthew Dons: Tracking Corona Virus From Japan
March 18, 2020 15:19 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBAs someone living with terminal cancer, Matthew Dons is not one who would panic in the face of a global pandemic. From his home in Tokyo he joins us on the podcast today to talk about what is happening in Japan, but also what it is like to be a person with a compromised immune system in the midst of the international corona virus crisis. Listen and enjoy and then go support his Health Fund to help him continue to live.
Decolonizing Museums: The Maasai & Oxford
March 03, 2020 18:47 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBAlmost three years ago Samwel Nangiria paid a visit the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. While there he was presented with objects gathered from his culture around 100 years ago. To his shock the collection included items that would normally never have made it into a museum or out of the hands of specific members of the Maasai community. He would eventually express his feelings to the museum, and what follows has become a fascinating and at times emotional engagement to de-colonize museums and e...
Driving the Garden State Parkway South
January 16, 2020 15:46 - 20 minutes - 28 MBStill retracing my audio steps from the recent United States visit, this time on the Garden State Parkway, looking out at all the cars and development and whathaveyou. Listen in as I simultaneously dodge dead deer while giving a socio-political analysis on the state of the states.
The Maasai people: A Struggle for Land and Justice
January 09, 2020 11:55 - 40 minutes - 57.3 MBThe Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania have a long tradition of living in harmony with nature. However, for the past century they have also seen their land and way of life targetted by encroaching intiatives related to nation-building, development, tourism, mining, etc. As a new decade begins the Maasai are once again being pushed off their lands and told their way of life must end in the name of "progress" or "development". Today on the podcast, we hear from three members of that community ...
Christopher Lydon: What 2019 Tells Us About 2020
January 06, 2020 16:57 - 1 hour - 87.2 MBSomehow the end of a year (and a decade this time) doesn't feel right if I don't find myself at the dinner table in Boston sitting across from Christopher Lydon. The voice of the world's first podcast, he's been my north star ever since I started this thing long before itunes had podcasts or NPR knew what to do with the internet. As luck- or perhaps fate- would have it, Chris and I have become close friends over the years and the annual "where are we, what happened, where are we going" podcas...
Identity in South Africa: A Roundtable Discussion
November 11, 2019 21:17 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBIdentity. Land. Displacement. Trauma. History. Struggle. Fear. Anger. Future. Environment. Income. Danger. Knowledge. Loss. Curiousity. Safety. These are a few of the words that came to mind listening back to this very special round table discussion recorded in South Africa with 3 South African friends. The major topic was identity in this age of information. From the city to the rural areas. From the past to the present and beyond, we discuss what is happening for many people around the to...
Jillo Katelo: Empowering Indigenous Communities in Northern Kenya
October 30, 2019 14:27 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBThere is a force referred to as development that has arrived in Northern Kenya. It brings highways, wind farms, pipelines, cables, standardized education, and new towns where the government wants people to live and work. What it also brings is pollution, inequality, disappearing cultures and languages, an end to nomadic lifestyles that have existed for hundreds of years. While all this is happening, extreme weather has also arrived, taking people who have long known how to live in balance wi...
Voices 4 Change: Indigenous Activists and Friends in Africa
October 23, 2019 16:39 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBThis month I had the great honor of being present at the Video 4 Change gathering in South Africa. This meeting brought together indigenous activists from different parts of the continent, as well as allies and friends from the rest of the world. The topic: the struggle for indigenous rights in a globalized world where in the name of profit and development, people who have long lived in harmony with their environment are being forced to discard their identity and physically pulled from their ...
Madge Weinstein: There Aren’t Enough True Crime Podcasts
September 27, 2019 14:40 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBMy esteemed colleague and media icon Madge Weinstein returns to the podcast today to dissect the podcast hype. As one of the first podcasts ever to exist in the history of the world, you will rarely hear from a visionary with the extensive experience and self-loathing that Madge brings. We also discuss impeachment, social media narcissism, and eventually things that we actually like. So amazing. Weew. It’s Madge!
Madge Weinstein: There Aren't Enough True Crime Podcasts
September 27, 2019 14:40 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBMy esteemed colleague and media icon Madge Weinstein returns to the podcast today to dissect the podcast hype. As one of the first podcasts ever to exist in the history of the world, you will rarely hear from a visionary with the extensive experience and self-loathing that Madge brings. We also discuss impeachment, social media narcissism, and eventually things that we actually like. So amazing. Weew. It’s Madge!
Joana Ponder: Empowering, Reconnecting, and other Passion Projects
July 31, 2019 13:12 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBJoana Ponder has an approach to life that I greatly admire. She’s also a fun person to speak with. For these reasons and more I invited her to the kitchen table for a conversation about what she’s busy with when it comes to how we see ourselves and approach life through good times and bad.
Wim Kruiswijk: Finding Messages in Bottles
June 18, 2019 15:51 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBFor decades Wim Kruiswijk has lived on the Dutch coast walking the beach before people arrive and after they have left. His treasure: messages in bottles. Over the years he has collected thousands, and turned beach combing into meaninful friendships. He’s also become extremely knowledgeable about why people write messages and bottles, as well as what else is happenning to the environment along the coast. Today on the podcast, in assocation with the For Keeps podcast, we pay a visit to Wim Kru...
Reflections in Rwanda
March 29, 2019 20:47 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBA podcast episode recorded from eastern Rwanda on a fine March evening in 2019. Special thanks to my Mikme recorder and the good people at Mikme for their creation and support.
David Brightbill: Podcasting While You Cycle To Makerspaces Around the World
February 18, 2019 22:54 - 45 minutes - 42.4 MBSomewhere in the year 2005, as podcast slowly sprang up around the world, I began listening to and communicating with the great David Brightbill. Over the years we have kept in touch, followed each others projects, and above all kept our love of audio, creativity, and community. Also riding bikes, we both like that. Listen as David and I sit at my kitchen table for our first recording since 2007 and examine just what is going on in this online audio space of ours, as well as many things in th...
Notes and Noise from Nairobi
December 19, 2018 16:04 - 14.9 MBOn our first ever podcast from Kenya, I bring you along as we walk the calm roads of Karen, while observing nature and society along the way. It's a brief Nairobi adventure... come along!
Outbursts, Setting Things on Fire and other Non-Japanese Behavior
December 05, 2018 22:31 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBPhone booth being used as a toilet? Bicycles being thrown into rivers? Vending machines being driven into by cars? Today on the podcast, the great Matthew Dons riffs on the many things that just could not happen in Japan. Yet, actually happen in this world. Get those ears ready for a treat!