Visu.News Podcast
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe cover politics, news, and the occasional dip into entertainment. Monthly we focus on the extreme right with a special episode called "Isolated Incidents."
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’We Are Proud Boys’ - Interview with Author/Journalist Andy Campbell
September 23, 2022 01:12 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBGet Andy's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-campbell/we-are-proud-boys/9780306827464/ Welcome to the Visu.news podcast, I’m Zach D Roberts and this week I’m chatting with Huffington Post reporter and author of a new book on the proud boys - Andy Campbell. Much of the American public first learned of rightwing hate gang the Proud Boys after the infamous presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in which Trump ordered them to “stand back and stand by....
Visu.News: Isolated Incidents Podcast - The Unification Church aka Moonies
July 27, 2022 23:53 - 44 minutes - 60.6 MBThis is Zach D Roberts, I'm an investigative photojournalist and cofounder of Visu.News. This is the Visu.News Podcast - Isolated Incidents edition. Each month I interview an expert in the world of extremism on a topic in the news - this month I'm speaking with Alisa Mahjoub. They are an independent researcher of the relationship between the Unification Church cult group and United States imperialism/fascism. This month the former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe was assassinated - this ...
Visu.News - Nobody Is Protected - Interview with author Dr. Reece Jones
July 09, 2022 16:19 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBSupport our work at Patreon.com/zdroberts - you get early access to podcasts, supporter exclusive photoessay's and much more. This episode of the Visu.News podcast - I speak with author Dr. Reece Jones who has a new book out this week, titled Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States The book is the untold story of how, through a series of landmark but largely unknown decisions, the Supreme Court has dramatically curtailed t...
VisuNews - Applebees but not the Streets?
January 27, 2022 15:29 - 1 hour - 75 MBWe're back! In this podcast Zach talks to Aaron about covering the March for Life and the Anti-Vaxx/Mandate... and then proceeds to rant a bit about where the masses are that took to the streets during the Trump Presidency. Must-reads: Patriot Front is outed... https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-front-fascist-leak-exposes-nationwide-racist-campaigns/ Matt Gaetz is going to have some problems... https://www.thedailybeast.com/witness-can-confirm-matt-gaetz-was-told-he-had-sex-wit...
Why Local News Matters - A Visual News Behind the Scenes Story with Andrew Dolph
December 24, 2021 19:18 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBHi, this is Zach D Roberts with a special episode of the Visu.News podcast AND the Around the Lens podcast. For those who are new to the pod - Around the Lens is a visual imaging show that I used to do regularly with David J Murphy. Well, we're bringing it back and trying out a bunch of new ideas - expanding out beyond just visual journalism with more reviews and interviews from people outside my usual field. One feature that we're working on is bringing you interviews like the one here ...
Isolated Incidents Episode 1: Alex Jones and Talking with Brooke Binkowski
November 28, 2021 18:29 - 1 hour - 65 MBThis is the first ever episode of the Isolated Incidents podcast. A monthly dive into the stories that journalists have put out covering the world of far-right and the grifters that inhabit it. When I first came up with the idea it was before the pandemic so I didn’t think to necessarily cover the anti-vax devotees but as the worlds of right-wing grifters, politicians and radio hosts expands we'll cover those too. First a little bit about me. I’m Zach D Roberts an investigative journali...
VisuNews: 10 Years of Occupy Wall Street
September 16, 2021 20:11 - 1 hour - 105 MBZach D Roberts and Aaron Cynic are back with a conversation about Occupy Wall Street, which turns 10 years old on Friday, September 17th. No OWS hasn't been occupying Zuccotti Square for 10 years but the legacy OWS lives on in many forms. There's no Bernie presidential run without OWS, there's no conversation about the 99% without OWS - we could go on - but that's why we recorded this podcast! Zach was in NYC for the occupation at Zuccotti aka Liberty and Aaron was in Chicago's financial d...
Repost Episode: Photojournalists on the Unite the Right Rally 3 Years on and more...
August 12, 2021 02:04 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBPhotojournalists on the Unite the Right Rally 3 Years on and more... This is a special crossover episode of the Visu.News and Around the Lens podcasts. We’re recording this on the third anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville that ended in the death of Heather Heyer and severe injuries to dozens more. I’m here with a handful of photojournalists who were there that day discussing what has and hasn’t changed since then. Our conversation starts with the tiki torch marc...
PA State Senator Was At the Capitol Insurrection (and loves the Big Lie)
May 27, 2021 16:53 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBHello, this is Zach D Roberts here with the Visu.News podcast. This week I'm chatting with Sean Kitchen of PASpotlight.org (Pennsylvania Spotlight.) Sean is a writer based in Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg - he has previously contributed to Raging ChickenPress (a favorite publication of mine) and is the go-to person to learn about all the Big Lie shenanigans going on in the Keystone State. In this episode, we focus on one politician - Republican State Senator Doug Mastriano. Since we ...
How exactly is the 'Officer Involved' - Interview with Kit O'Connell
April 16, 2021 14:25 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThis week on the Visu.News podcast Aaron Cynic and I speak with journalist Kit O'Connell about the media's use of language around police violence and shootings. The favored phrases of 'unbiased' news outlets around these incidents are often in a passive tone - not wanting to lay blame on anyone in law enforcement - the same doesn't go for the victims of police violence of course - as they are often described as suspects. Kit wrote an excellent and concise piece on the media's use of the t...
'The Day The Klan Came To Town', Author Speaks with Visu.News
March 13, 2021 05:09 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBI'm here this week with publisher and author Bill Campbell who has a new graphic novel that's doing some crowd fundraising called The Day the Klan Came to Town. The book is a collaboration with artist Bizhan Khodabandeh and will be published later this year at PM Press (pre-order from PM Press at this link). In the book - Bill tells the story of the time that the KKK came to Carnegie, Pennsylvania it's as their Kickstarter describes it a "fictionalized, graphic retelling of a KKK riot that ...
SPECIAL: VisuNews Podcast: Jackson's Water Crisis with Laurie Betram Roberts
March 08, 2021 01:42 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBLaurie explains the water crisis after the February winter storm in Jackson, MS and discusses her activism in the state.
Ep 2: COVID Disaster Response
February 12, 2021 03:50 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBChicago and NY are dealing with COVID-19 vaccine rollout in varying degrees of terrible. Aaron and Zach discuss.
Feb 2nd, 2021 - Back and somehow still surviving
February 12, 2021 03:39 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBAaron Cynic and Zach D Roberts are back for a new year of the Visu.News podcast. We talk about the past couple of weeks news and so much more.