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The News MeetingIs Ukraine's audacious drone attack on Russia a game changer?The UK government’s new Strategic Defence Review says it’s time for British citizens to step up. In southern Gaza, the Red Cross says 21 people were “declared dead on arrival” at a field hospital after an incident near an aid distribution centre. And could Ukraine’s Operation Spider’s Web change the face of modern warfare?Giles Whittell is joined by Media Storm’s Mathilda Mallinson along with The Observer’s Cat Neilan and Jasper Corbett, as they battle to pitch the top story of the day.To read Cat’s article about the Strategi...2025-06-0235 min
Media StormMaternity and paternity leave: Why parents are so angry at politicsThis week, Media Storm delves into a vastly underreported topic - and one of the biggest potential barriers to gender equality, child welfare and family security.The UK has the least generous paternity leave entitlement in Europe, currently set at a measly two weeks. On the surface, maternity leave looks generous in length - but compared to OECD countries, the rate of pay is one of the lowest.As the government and media put culture wars over real-life policies, spread muddled misinformation about benefits that are designed to be...2025-03-0748 min
Diplomatic ImmunityKatie Stallard on Mythmaking & History in Russia, China, and North KoreaFor our third episode of "History and our Current World," Kelly welcomes journalist Katie Stallard to explore how historical mythmaking shapes foreign policy. We examine how Russia, China & North Korea have manipulated national narratives to legitimize their global ambitions and create powerful collective identities. Katie is a senior editor for China & global affairs at the News Statesman magazine, and was previously a foreign correspondent for Sky News, reporting from Ukraine, Russia, and China. She published Dancing on Bones in 2022, which was awarded best political book of the year by the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, and the...2025-02-2746 min
Media StormNuclear weapons: deterrence or destruction?Nuclear weapons: peace in our times, or destruction in our future?What you think probably depends on where in the world you are - because what journalists write generally depends on where in the world they are.Here in the UK, nuclear weapons are a necessary deterrent, and that’s the end of the story. The coverage is coloured by geopolitical considerations and political voices, while scientific and humanitarian ones are absent.That’s why Media Storm is bringing in a Nobel-winning physicist and a Ja...2024-09-261h 02
Media StormWhat the media won't say about the monarchyPrince Harry’s 40th birthday, Kate Middleton back at work, and ANOTHER dramatisation of that Prince Andrew interview. Headlines about the Royals are frequent front pages - but is this actually news?The monarchy is given a fairly easy ride in the media - rarely questioned, often praised, history erased. But why don’t editorial guidelines about ‘due impartiality’ apply to the royal family, when 40% of Brits disagree with its existence? This week, storyteller Kelechi Okafor and author Dr Laura Clancy (who wrote Running the Family Firm: how the monarchy...2024-09-1956 min
Media StormViolence against women is a man's problem: Gisèle Pelicot, Rebecca Cheptegei, and millions moreContent warning: rape, sexual assault, and gender-based violenceHeadlines about gender-based violence are sadly not rare. But over the last week, two harrowing stories have sent shockwaves around the world.In France, pensioner Dominique Pelicot stands trial for recruiting 72 men to join him in drugging and raping his now ex-wife, Gisèle, over the course of a decade. And in Kenya, Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei burned alive after being set on fire by her ex-boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema. There has bee...2024-09-121h 03
Media StormWhy is no one talking about Sudan? Plus Jess Phillips NHS claim and pub garden smoking banHeadlines about wars in Ukraine and Gaza have flooded front pages - yet, the "world's biggest humanitarian crisis" is battling for media attention. Why? In Sudan, a terrible war is raging. What started as a conflict between the Sudan Armed forces (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has exploded into chaos and bloodshed, with countless militias, ethnic massacres, and foreign proxy self-interest.Over 25 million people face acute hunger. Nearly 11 million have been displaced. And the death count is suspected to be as high as five times as high a...2024-09-0559 min
Media StormParalympics: An afterthought? Plus ‘two-tiered’ policing and Labour’s migrant ‘amnesty’The Paralympic Games are underway - and there's plenty to celebrate! More coverage than ever before, a public-participating opening ceremony, and over 160 nations televising the event. But is it enough? There were 10 million tickets available for the Olympics - and only 3 million for the Paralympics. What does it mean that the Paralympics will be broadcast on Channel 4, rather than our state broadcaster BBC (where extensive Olympics coverage takes place). Is this a question of reduced public interest and 'relatability'? Or an underlying bias against disability?Joining us to discuss p...2024-08-2953 min
Media StormPrisons: Overcrowding, Operation Early Dawn, and child strip-searches‘UK PRISONS OVERCROWDED AFTER RACIST RIOTS!’‘A CHILD IS STRIP-SEARCHED EVERY 14 HOURS’‘SCORES OF CRIMINALS COULD BE FREED IN DAYS’Headlines this week spotlight the UK’s criminal justice system, as prison overcrowding triggers emergency measures. Amazingly, serious talks about prison reform have entered the mainstream media - but a key voice is missing from the coverage: prisoners themselves. This week, people with inside knowledge of the system join Helena and Mathilda for the week’s top stories. Lady Unchained and David Navarro talk prison overcrowding, ch...2024-08-2259 min
Media StormJust Stop Oil: Why do people hate them so much?Cult members. Fanatics. Selfish. Evil. All words that have been used to describe climate activists in the mainstream media.Just Stop Oil have made many headlines since 2022, be it by stopping traffic or throwing powder on Stonehenge in their token orange shade. Last month, five members were sent to prison with the longest sentences ever given for peaceful protest in the UK. But what does the group actually want? If it weren't for the name, Just Stop Oil's aims would be largely absent from press reports, which focus on the public nuisance caused by...2024-08-151h 00
Media StormBigotry & bad information: Islamophobia, far-right riots and Olympic boxing rowThis week has seen stories of bigotry, fuelled by bad information.Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant riots sprung up across the UK, with no factual basis in the incident that triggered them - a stabbing attack that killed three young girls in Southport last Monday, founded on a widespread fake news story that the attacker was a Muslim asylum seeker who arrived ‘illegally’ by boat. But some mainstream news outlets seemed to have trouble naming the problem. Riots were labelled ‘protests’. Attacking a mosque was called ‘disorder’. And the word Islamophobia? That was now...2024-08-0853 min
Media StormGeneral Election, Gen-Z, and propaganda in the papersIt's VOTING DAY! How did you pick who to vote for?Hopefully not by relying too heavily on our mainstream media. Listen to this episode to find out why!It’s a dose of media literacy that is so essential, especially in this year of elections. We speak to CEO of independent press regulator Impress, Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana, and TikTok journalist Sophia Smith Galer, about the party politics of our papers, the cringiest MPs rapping on TikTok to try and sway a Gen-Z vote, and how actually engage young people in politics.Plus, no-filter ho...2024-07-0456 min
Media StormPride Month under attack: rainbow-washing, queerbaiting, and fears of "gender ideology"Quite a lot to NOT be proud of this Pride Month, with corporations creeping away cowardly as ultra-Conservatives boycott their rainbow campaigns. Meanwhile, much of the mainstream media refuses to report on rising threats to LGBT+ equality.Luckily, there’s also lots to laugh about! From hilariously hopeless Pride ads to everything that comes out of Olga Koch’s mouth - and lots to gossip about too, with celebrity “queerbaiting” up on the agenda.We pick our way through Pride’s best and worst reporting, including vital LGBTQIA+ investigations that went under the radar - with Queer...2024-06-2754 min
Media StormWorld Refugee Day: Inclusion and solutionsToday is #WorldRefugeeDay - an international day designated by the UN to honour refugees around the globe. World Refugee Day feels especially relevant at Media Storm, because refugees make one of the strongest cases for this podcast’s existence. They are one of the groups characterised most frequently and most voicelessly in our mainstream media, and consequently, clouded by myth. Joining us to bust some of the biggest myths about refugees are two people with lived experience - Journalist, Editor-in-Chief at Egyptwatch, and host of the podcast Untold Stories, Osama Gaweesh - and Afghan journalist, ne...2024-06-2041 min
Media StormMedia racism: Faiza Shaheen, Palestine coverage, and the limits of representationThis week, Faiza Shaheen announced she has resigned from the Labour Party, after a shock email revealed she had been deselected as a candidate in this year's General Election. The Labour Party candidate selection committee called into question tweets that Faiza had 'liked', some from 10 years ago. But behind the apparent distractions of old tweets is something far more sinister: what Faiza has described as “a systematic campaign of racism, Islamophobia, and bullying". Are people of colour held to a higher standard in public and in the media? We discuss this, how the routine dehumanisation of...2024-06-0656 min
Media StormPolice: misogyny, mistrust, and The MetContent warning: mentions of violence against women, rape, and assault.This episode was recorded just before the general election was announced! Register to vote here.This week, it was reported the number of Met police officers being dismissed reached a new peak. A police officer has been handed a guilty sentence for assault, after arresting and handcuffing a Black woman over an apparent bus fare evasion. And last year the Casey Review found the Met Police was institutionally sexist, racist and homophobic.Have we made any progress? And is reform possible? If one...2024-05-2344 min
Media StormUlez: Pollution or politics? Plus Eurovision boycott and Voter IDThe climate crisis is wreaking havoc in headlines this week: heatwaves in southeast Asia, flooding in Kenya and Brazil, and exotic spiders smuggling their way into the UK - all this marks a record leap in atmospheric CO2.One climate-related story has haunted UK news cycles for almost five years: The London mayor’s controversial Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). Yet it's not reported as a climate story at all - so much as a political one.This week, we're joined by Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, mother of the Ella, the only person in the world with po...2024-05-1647 min
Media StormThe death debate: Assisted dying and the legacy of CoppaFeel!There’s a morbid theme to Media Storm’s first new weekly format - but that’s ok because it’s Dying Matters Awareness Week so we all need to get talking about death!Our key voices today are people with terminal illnesses - as we discuss the late Kris Hallenga’s legacy beyond 'CoppaFeel!' and the debates on assisted dying laws unfolding across the British Isles. And - we reveal the inside scoop on a controversial BBC documentary dropping next week on ‘assisted suicide’.Plus, your round up of the headlines through a Media Storm le...2024-05-0946 min
OFF ROAD with Peter Palmisano - An RLTP PodcastSpecial guest Katie MallinsonWhen Buffalo theater producers plan their seasons and choose their directors, they find that Katie Mallinson has risen to the top of their list. In the midst of preparations for Guards at the Taj, Katie zoomed with Peter to share the secrets of her success, and her hopes for the brilliant, but complicated show under her guidance.
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TigerTalksUsing data to drive a hybrid future [Spring webinar series panel discussion]Our two-part Spring webinar series launched on Thursday 7th April with a panel discussion on the role of data analytics in driving culture and decision-making for workplaces of the future. Moderated by Scriba PR’s Katie Mallinson, we welcomed Phillipa Winter, Account Chief Technologist for Central Government, Health and Social Care at Softcat to the panel. Joined by Tiger Sales Director Caroline Lewis, they discussed the modern workplace and how it’s shaping the key challenges facing IT and department leaders. We've curated this session as a podcast if you'd prefer to listen rather than watc...2022-04-0847 min
DecodedRookie Year feat. Katie Mallinson & Royce WillmschenIt’s funny to think about what has — and hasn’t — changed for fledgling developer careers over the past several decades. Both Katie Mallinson, Full Stack Developer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Royce Willmschen, Senior Manager of Software Engineering at HPE, have unique upbringings in the development space. Royce began his development career in the early 1980s and has since become a senior manager at one of the most notable IT companies in the world, while Katie’s development repertoire is beginning to flourish as her career continues to grow.Decoded host Sydney Lai sat down with Katie and Royce...2020-11-1137 min
Good Mourning, Nancy PodcastEp. 73: FROM HELL (2001) - You Don't Know Jack!Hey y'all! This week your favorite ghouls discussing From Hell! Topics of discussion include but are not limited to: sex-work in 1888, the REAL victims of Jack the Ripper, and why our obsession with Jack is problematic AF.
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Theme song by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com
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Resources:
From Hell (2001) Dir. The Hughes Brothers
From Hell (1999, Graphic Novel) Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell
WHY IT’S TIME TO STOP TALKING ABOUT JACK THE RIPPER by Ann Foster
https://bookriot.com/2019/04/02/stop-talking-about-jack-the-ripper/amp/
‘Jack the Ripper’ was a serial killer who disembowelled women – we need to stop celebrating that by...2020-07-0747 min
Let's Bitch! with the Negative NanciesLet's Bitch! about The New Normal! with Katie Mallinson!“In this nerdy episode, The Nancies discuss The New Normal of our society within the current COVID-19 pandemic AND some general theatre talk with Guest-Nancy, Director, Artist, Teacher, Katie Mallinson. Junior Nancy, Tyler, gets destroyed, and we bitch on and on and on.” S1E6Special Guest: Katie Mallinson.2020-04-0542 min
The Bad-Ass Soul Seeking Warrior Podcast SeriesEpisode 4: Katie Mallinson, Functional Nutrition Expert - Great Advice on Nutritional SupplementsCommon Questions around supplements: 1. Why is there so much confusion around supplements a. Conflicting, misquoted, or poor quality research– we must dig into the data! i. Vitamin E, alpha-d-tocopherol in isolation vs. in combination with d- gamma-tocopherol. ii. Beta-Carotene: smokers (accelerated DNA damage) vs. non-smokers, heavy alcohol drinkers (hepatotoxicity).
b. Each person is unique, and we have to put the data into the context of the complex person in front of us!
2. My friend’s trainer/friend/family member recommended x, should I take it also? 3. How do I know if a supplement is working or I...2020-01-0919 minThe Bad-Ass Soul Seeking Warrior Podcast SeriesEpisode 3: Katie Mallinson, Functional Nutrition Expert - What Eating Plan Is Best For You?What Eating Plan is Best for You? Join Katie and me and learn about the various eating plans available and how to find out what is best for you.
1. 2020 Resolutions - reflect upon 2019 and any resolutions you may have set as asking yourself: what went well and why? What didn't and why? What can I do differently?
2. Diets: Before diving into specific diets, let's talk a little bit about how food serves us as individuals and why there is so much confusion about what to eat.
3. Now let's dive into specific diets Ketogenic...2020-01-0936 minThe Bad-Ass Soul Seeking Warrior Podcast SeriesEpisode 2: Katie Mallinson, Functional Nutrition Expert - How To Managing Your Eating Through The Holidays or Special OccasionsEpisode 2 - Functional Nutrition with Katie Mallison: In today's episode, Kate gives us some tips for the holidays. Have a look: Holiday Survival Guide:
1. What are your goals? Write out and check-in with them often.
2. Plan out your activities. Stay connected to how food makes you feel. Will the 3rd glass of wine leave you with a hangover, do you have a holiday run that you want to perform well on, etc.
3. Be as consistent as possible, but don’t over-stress. If you wake up and exercise, keep that routine.
4. Plan ac...2020-01-0920 minThe Bad-Ass Soul Seeking Warrior Podcast SeriesEpisode One: Katie Mallinson, Functional Nutrition Expert - Keeping a Food JournalEpisode 1 - Katie Mallison: Keeping a Food Journal. In today's episode, Katie talks about the first step in getting to the bottom of creating an eating plan that works for you is to keep a food journal.
To learn more about Katie go to her website www.thrivewellness365.com
The food journal app that Katie recommends can be found here: www.cronometer.com
If you want the 3-Day Food Journal DM me.
If you have any questions for us, please leave them in the comments,, and we will be sure to respond to you.2020-01-0919 min
Spirit Sessions: Sex, Spirit & Self-CareEp. 57 Is the Yoga You’re Doing REALLY Ancient?In this episode I discuss: ~What I learned about yoga history ~Where the standing poses of yoga came from ~The beauty of cultural transmigration ~The women behind what became modern day yoga ~The relationship we’ve ALL been in Books I used for research: The Great Oom by Robert Love The Subtle Body by Stefanie Syman The Science of Yoga by William Broad The Roots of Yoga by James Mallinson, Mark Singleton Yoga Body: The Orig...2019-10-1520 min
Research in Action | A podcast for faculty & higher education professionals on research design, methods, productivity & moreEp 142: Dr. Gaetano Lotrecchiano on Building Effective Teams - Bonus Clip # 1 - Guy Shares about a Tool for Assessing TeamsBonus Clip [00:00-05:10]: Guy Shares about a Tool for Assessing Teams In this bonus clips, the following resources are mentioned: MATRICx Lotrecchiano, G. R., Mallinson, T., LeBlanc-Beaudoin, T., Schwartz, L., Lazar, D., Falk-Krzesinski, H. (2016). Individual motivation and threat indicators of collaboration readiness in scientific knowledge producing teams: A scoping review and domain analysis. Heliyon 2(5), e00105. http://www.heliyon.com/article/e00105/pdf Mallinson, T., Lotrecchiano, G. R., Furniss, J., Schwartz, L., Lazar, D., Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. (2016). Pilot analysis of the motivation assessment for team readiness, integration, and collaboration (MATRICx) using rasch analysis. Journal of Investigative Medicine 64, 1186-1193...2019-01-2100 minResearch in Action | A podcast for faculty & higher education professionals on research design, methods, productivity & moreEp 142: Dr. Gaetano Lotrecchiano on Building Effective TeamsOn this episode, Katie is joined by Gaetano R. Lotrecchiano, EdD, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is also the Associate Dean of Collaboration and Academic Innovation at the George Washington University. Dr. Lotrecchiano's work is dedicated to team and collaboration science. He is also the President Elect of the International Network for the Science of Team Science. Segment 1: Creating Effective Teams [00:00-20:53] In this first segment, Guy shares about how he began his research on creative effective teams. 2019-01-2100 min
History Today PodcastChurchill's plan to win the First World WarAllan Mallinson joins us to discuss a 'lost' memo penned by Winston Churchill in 1911 concerning the prospect of a European war, a missive that, had its recommendations been implemented, may have brought the conflict to an early end. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2013-11-2519 min