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PBS News Hour - WorldHow Russia used Brazil as a ‘spy factory’ for global espionageA New York Times investigation found that Moscow has used Brazil as a launchpad for its global espionage operation. Brazilian federal police uncovered the deception after a yearslong hunt, dealing a massive blow to Putin’s spy program. Ali Rogin speaks with New York Times reporters Michael Schwirtz and Jane Bradley to learn more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders2025-07-1306 min
PBS News Hour - SegmentsHow Russia used Brazil as a ‘spy factory’ for global espionageA New York Times investigation found that Moscow has used Brazil as a launchpad for its global espionage operation. Brazilian federal police uncovered the deception after a yearslong hunt, dealing a massive blow to Putin’s spy program. Ali Rogin speaks with New York Times reporters Michael Schwirtz and Jane Bradley to learn more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders2025-07-1306 min
True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | PoliticsMEMBER'S EPISODE - True Spies Debrief: Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz on Russia's Brazilian IllegalsInvestigative New York Times journalists Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz speak to True Spies producer Frank Palmer about the discovery of a Russian 'spy factory' in Brazil.
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From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Frank Palmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-06-2433 min
The Chuck ToddCastThe Russian SPY Factory In Brazil, Explained: New York Times BOMBSHELL Story ReactionChuck Todd starts with new polling showing Trump’s damaging down ballot effect on the Republican party and highlights some key races for the upcoming midterm elections.Then, he sits down with New York Times reporters Michael Schwirtz and Jane Bradley to discuss their explosive investigation into Russia's sophisticated "spy factory" operation in Brazil. The reporters reveal how they uncovered a years-long Russian intelligence program that used Brazil as the perfect cover to create false identities for spies who would then be deployed around the world. The discussion explores how the Ukraine war may have intensified efforts to...2025-05-291h 17
Made In Minnesota⛹🏼♂️ AREA SPORTS ROUND UP - May 23rdTALKIN' BASEBALL - We talk HS Baseball with GSL Coach Dean Schwirtz, then go Around the Horn with Brian Larson of the North Star League and Jeremy Stender of the CRVL League2025-05-2532 min
The HeadlinesTrump Transition Stalls Over Ethics Code, and a New Russian OffensivePlus, Saudi Arabia’s “sportswashing” controversy. Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, download the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter.Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. On Today’s Episode:Trump Names Thomas Homan ‘Border Czar’ With a Wide Portfolio, by Mike IvesTrump Holds Up Transition Process Over Ethics Code, by Ken BensingerTrump’s Return Hangs Over U.N. Climate Negotiations, by...2024-11-1107 minThe HeadlinesTrump Defeats Harris to Retake the PresidencyPlus, Republicans win control of the Senate. Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, download the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter.Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. On Today’s Episode:Election Live Updates: Trump Fights His Way Back Into Power, by Jonathan WeismanRepublicans Clinch Control of the Senate, by Carl HulseAbortion on the BallotIsrael’s Netan...2024-11-0606 min
5:595:59 v originále: The Russians fighting for UkraineThe EU and NATO member states call for further support for Ukraine in the wake of the expected Russian offensive in the east of the country. The fighting rages mostly around Bakhmut, a city in the east of Ukraine, where the Russian military is slowly taking ground. But there are also Russian soldiers fighting alongside Ukrainian troops on the front lines near Bakhmut. The Free Russia Legion unites those who oppose Vladimir Putin's invasion and are ready to fight against their own country.Guest: Michael Schwirtz - New York Times reporterČláne...2023-02-1822 min
5:59Příběh Rusů, kteří válčí za UkrajinuUkrajina se na východě země snaží odolat zesílenému tlaku ruské armády. V boji proti invazním silám pomáhá i jednotka složená z Rusů, kteří se rozhodli postavit vojsku své vlastní země. Nejen o motivaci členů legie Svoboda Rusku mluvíme s americkým reportérem listu New York Times, který s legionáři pobýval.Host: Michael Schwirtz - reportér deníku New York Times na UkrajiněČlánek a další informace najdete na webu Seznam ZprávySledujte nás na sociálních sítích Twitter a Instagra...2023-02-1525 min
The DailyInside Russia’s Military CatastropheThis episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, many believed the country’s army would quickly crush the Ukrainian forces. Instead, Russian military failures have defined the war.Today, we hear from Russian soldiers, and explore why a military superpower keeps making the same mistakes and why, despite it all, its soldiers keep going back to fight.Guest: Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.Background reading: Secret battle plans, intercepted communications and interviews with Russian soldiers explain how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for Russi...2023-01-0425 min
The DailyInside Russia’s Military CatastropheThis episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, many believed the country’s army would quickly crush the Ukrainian forces. Instead, Russian military failures have defined the war.Today, we hear from Russian soldiers, and explore why a military superpower keeps making the same mistakes and why, despite it all, its soldiers keep going back to fight.Guest: Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.Background reading: Secret battle plans, intercepted communications and interviews with Russian soldiers explain how a “wa...2023-01-0425 min
Deborah Lebree's podcastInside Russia’s Military CatastropheThis episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence.When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, many believed the country’s army would quickly crush the Ukrainian forces. Instead, Russian military failures have defined the war.Today, we hear from Russian soldiers, and explore why a military superpower keeps making the same mistakes and why, despite it all, its soldiers keep going back to fight.Guest: Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.Background reading: Secret battle plans, intercepted communications and interviews with Russian soldiers explain how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for Russi...2023-01-0426 minDeborah Lebree's podcastA Bridge, a Bomb and Putin’s RevengeJust before the sun came up on Saturday on the Kerch Strait Bridge, a strategically and symbolically important link between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, a bomb detonated, creating a giant fireball.But Ukrainian elation about the explosion quickly turned into concern about how Russia would respond. And in the days since, Moscow’s retaliation has been to pound Ukrainian cities with missiles in the most sweeping rocket assault since the start of the war.Guest: Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.Background reading: President Vladimir V. Putin vowed that more strikes would follow if Russian tar...2022-10-1221 minThe DailyA Bridge, a Bomb and Putin’s RevengeJust before the sun came up on Saturday on the Kerch Strait Bridge, a strategically and symbolically important link between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, a bomb detonated, creating a giant fireball.But Ukrainian elation about the explosion quickly turned into concern about how Russia would respond. And in the days since, Moscow’s retaliation has been to pound Ukrainian cities with missiles in the most sweeping rocket assault since the start of the war.Guest: Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.Background reading: President Vladimir V. Putin vowed that more strikes would follow if Russian tar...2022-10-1220 minThe DailyA Bridge, a Bomb and Putin’s RevengeJust before the sun came up on Saturday on the Kerch Strait Bridge, a strategically and symbolically important link between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, a bomb detonated, creating a giant fireball.But Ukrainian elation about the explosion quickly turned into concern about how Russia would respond. And in the days since, Moscow’s retaliation has been to pound Ukrainian cities with missiles in the most sweeping rocket assault since the start of the war.Guest: Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.Background reading: President Vladimir V. Putin vow...2022-10-1221 min
Angry PlanetUkraine's Alamo: The Siege of AzovstalImagine being trapped below ground for weeks, surrounded by soldiers, bombs dropping just a few feet above your head.Food is scarce, rats are everywhere. Is survival possible? And what would it even look like? A trip back home, or to a Russian prison?That was the situation during the siege of the Azovstal Steel Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine. Michael Schwirtz of the New York Times has put together a comprehensive look at the siege, which is being called Ukraine’s Alamo and he’s joining us today to describe what...2022-07-2929 minThe DailyThe Battle for Azovstal: A Soldier’s StoryFor the past two months, a group of Ukrainian fighters has been holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol, mounting a last stand against Russian forces in a critical part of eastern Ukraine.On Monday, Ukraine finally surrendered the plant.After the end of the determined resistance at Azovstal, we hear from Leonid Kuznetsov, a 25 year-old soldier who had been stationed inside.Guest: Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.Want more from The Daily? For one big idea on the news each week from our team, subscribe to our newsletter. Background r...2022-05-1832 min
LongformEpisode 480: Joshua YaffaJoshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker, the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, and has been reporting from Ukraine for the last several weeks. His most recent article is "What the Russian Invasion Has Done to Ukraine."“I’m not at all a conflict reporter. I don't like it, though who would like being in these situations? But this is the story, right? If you cover this part of the world, if the war in 2014 felt like the tectonic plates of history were shifting, now they're just erupting, crashin...2022-03-1648 minThe DailyInside Ukraine’s Embattled CitiesIt has been two weeks since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and Russia’s high-tech army of nearly 200,000 soldiers have not taken control of any major cities, except the southern port of Kherson. The state of the war is eerily stalled and the Russians’ answer has been to encircle cities and, from a distance, bomb what they can’t control. Today, we hear dispatches on two cities in Ukraine’s south that are surrounded and under attack. Guest: Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times; and Valerie Hopkins, a Moscow correspondent for The Times, currently in Ukraine...2022-03-1033 minThe DailyThe Russian Invasion BeginsAfter months of escalating tensions, President Vladimir V. Putin took to state television on Thursday to declare the start of a “special military operation” in Ukraine.In the prelude to the invasion and as Russian troops launched their attacks, we spoke to our colleagues on the ground as they hunkered down to cover the fighting.Guest: Sabrina Tavernise, a national correspondent for The New York Times; Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief for The Times and Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter for The Times. Have you lost a loved one during the pandemic? The Daily is working on a special episo...2022-02-2420 minThe DailyHow Ukrainians View This Perilous MomentOfficials in the United States say that Russia could invade Ukraine as early as this week, which raises the question: Should an attack come, how will the Ukrainian people respond? The answer may be complicated. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there has been a real push and pull between Russia and the West inside Ukraine. We hear about how Ukrainians are viewing the threat. Guest: Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter with The New York Times.Have you lost a loved one during the pandemic? The Daily is working on a special episode memorializing those we have lost to...2022-02-1534 min
Vinohradská 12Ukrajinská krize očima reportéra New York TimesHromadění ruských vojsk a armádní techniky u hranic s Ukrajinou vyvolává rostoucí obavy Severoatlantické aliance, zejména u jejího východního křídla. Proč se situace vyhrocuje právě teď? A kdo a jak ji může zklidnit? Hostem Vinohradské 12 je reportér deníku The New York Times Michael Schwirtz.Všechny díly podcastu Vinohradská 12 můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.2021-12-2223 min
The Russia GuyE106: Michael Schwirtz on Journalism and the NYT's Pulitzer PrizeOn today’s show, “The Russia Guy” welcomes Michael Schwirtz, a journalist from The New York Times staff who just won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. The award was granted for “a set of enthralling stories, reported at great risk, exposing the predations of Vladimir Putin’s regime.” The newspaper's winning work includes six articles and two documentary videos published in 2019. Now an investigative reporter with The New York Times, Michael has been with the newspaper for 14 years, having started in the Moscow bureau and then working at the Metro Desk, first covering the New York City...2020-05-0933 min
The Naked PravdaF**k the Pulitzer: A Russian investigative journalist says his team deserves recognition for breaking one of the stories that won ‘The New York Times’ its latest reporting awardOn May 4, 2020, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the latest winners of the most coveted award in journalism. The staff of The New York Times won prizes in three different categories: international reporting, investigative reporting, and commentary. The first honor was awarded for “a set of enthralling stories, reported at great risk, exposing the predations of Vladimir Putin’s regime.” The winning work includes six articles and two videos. Not one of the stories is actually set inside Russia: the reports are about wars in Libya and Syria, elections in Madagascar and the Central African Republic, and murders in Bulgaria and Ukrain...2020-05-0821 min
On the MediaSpy vs. SpyNew York Times reporter Michael Schwirtz set out to investigate a series of assassinations in Ukraine with low expectations. Reporting on a homicide as a member of the foreign press is daunting enough to begin with. His assignment was formidable beacuse many of the murders were linked to Russia — a government hostile to the media at best and notorious for murdering foreign journalists at worst.
But when Schwirtz approached alleged Russian assassin Oleg Smorodinov to question him about a murder, the accused provided an unexpected bit of testimony: a confession. And on top of that, Smorodinov disclosed the specific ro...2019-04-1116 min
Oral ArgumentEpisode 174: Podcast of RecordJust Joe and Christian on a double-album of an episode. Lots of nonsense and a smattering of sense, including: notaries public, international sport and boycotts and drugs, bears and snakes, the Deep South and weather, these days and conversation, a tiny, incomplete dip into the mailbag, the pronunciation of Argunauts, what we should do with our lives, law and neutrality, law as a substitute for war, 2 + 2 = 5 and right and wrong, hard and easy problems, freedom reasoning and the New Lochner, court packing, changing the constitution of the Supreme Court, religious tests for office and the nature of convictions about...2018-07-072h 11
Download Full Audiobook in Newspapers & Magazines, News & CultureChaos at Rikers, but City Jails Chief Was Gone for 90 Days by William K. Rashbaum | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Chaos at Rikers, but City Jails Chief Was Gone for 90 Days
Author: William K. Rashbaum, Michael Schwirtz
Narrator: Barbara Benjamin-Creel
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-29-17
Publisher: The New York Times
Genres: Newspapers & Magazines, News & Culture
Summary:
Joseph Ponte, the correction commissioner brought to New York to overhaul the citys troubled jail system, has been reprimanded in a Department of Investigation report that found he had spent 90 days outside the city last year, even as violence at Rikers Island was spiraling out of control.
"Chaos...2017-04-2908 min
Discover the Top 100 Audiobooks in Newspapers & Magazines, News & CultureRussian Spying Built on Hackers Network Audiobook by Michael Schwirtz, Joseph GoldsteinPlease open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: Russian Spying Built on Hackers Network
Author: Michael Schwirtz, Joseph Goldstein
Narrator: Barbara Benjamin-Creel
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-13-17
Publisher: The New York Times
Genres: Newspapers & Magazines, News & Culture
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To the FBI, Evgeniy M. Bogachev is the most wanted cybercriminal in the world. The bureau has announced a $3 million bounty for his capture, the most ever for computer crimes, and has been trying to track his movements in...2017-03-1315 min
Discover Full Audiobook in Newspapers & Magazines, News & CultureInquiry Into Racial Bias in New York Prisons Is Big Job for Small Team by Michael Winerip | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Inquiry Into Racial Bias in New York Prisons Is Big Job for Small Team
Author: Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz
Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
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Length: 5 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-12-16
Publisher: The New York Times
Genres: Newspapers & Magazines, News & Culture
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"Inquiry Into Racial Bias in New York Prisons Is Big Job for Small Team" is from the December 11, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Michael Winerip and Michael Schwirtz and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.
©2016 The New York Times News Service Division o...2016-12-1205 min