generic youth media brand Dexter Thomas

How do you make a documentary about Gaza … when they won't let you into Gaza? A mix of OSINT, protests, and Whatsapp calls with a journalist trapped in Rafah.
Seb Walker (former DC Bureau Chief of VICE News) hosted a documentary called A Hidden War, from Scripps News and Bellingcat.
And yes, we talk about Kendrick v Lamar (a tiny bit), but mostly Macklemore.
We get into what it was like to talk to 'both sides' of the war, and what this might mean for US elections at home.
A Hidden War Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9q8dsW9Qg
Macklemore's song 'Hind's Hall':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmg6vbt04TY
Hind Hassan's post on the Pulitzer:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6qie2UMxCP/?img_index=1

The campus protests are a recent news obsession in the US. But did you hear when a couple students (and former Israel Defense Force members) allegedly sprayed a chemical that sent a number of protesters to the hospital?
This was back in January, but it took AJ+ over two months to finally put out a report. There's a reason for that, which we get into in the podcast. This is the definitive account of the incident – at least, until the police say otherwise.
The minidoc we are referencing* :
Pro-Palestine Students Face Alleged Chemical Attack At Columbia University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2vNJOQfDmI
Note that this episode only plays parts of the AJ+ report, and if you only listen to this, you're definitely not getting the full picture – including some pretty important caveats about the allegations (including the fact that much of this is nearly impossible to confirm, and the statements from the university). For the full picture, you definitely want to see the full thing. So definitely check that link above.
Also, there's this 404 article:
Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University
https://www.404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-chain-kryptonite-columbia-university-protests/
Anna Kook is a producer at AJ+ [@_annakook]
Mustafa Mirza is a freelance producer and photographer [@moosezafa]

As respected sports shows like HBO’s Real Sports die, and ESPN and Sports Illustrated are continually gutted, a new form of sports coverage is rising: shows run by the athletes themselves. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily, but there are some caveats.
This session’s guest is Joshua Hersh, former correspondent and senior producer at VICE News, and current editor at Columbia Journalism Review.

You can see his article here at: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/sports-journalism-survival-foul-territory-mcafee-braun-mlb.php

And Jay Kang’s article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/online-gambling-is-changing-sports-for-the-worse

I do these every Tuesday:
twitch.tv/dexdigi

Krishna Andavolu and his show Weediquette on VICE helped pioneer not only a new generation of weed reporting, but also helped shift attitudes toward marijuana policy, legislation, and culture. He jumped on the stream to talk about his past work, the current state of weed in the US, and to make some predictions about how cannabis may figure into the 2024 election as a Biden campaign strategy.
Here's the newly-released piece Krishna mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gell2kJLe0M
I do these streams every Tuesday: http://twitch.tv/dexdigi

It's been a weird few weeks on the Internet. I brought on Jason Koebler, cofounder of 404 Media (and former EIC of Motherboard, VICE's tech vertical), to talk about it.
The topics are all from 404media.co . Here are the links:

Pornhub pulling out of Texas: https://www.404media.co/pornhub-blocked-texas/
A cop looking for books to ban in an library: https://www.404media.co/police-bodycam-shows-sheriff-kootenai-idaho-hunting-for-obscene-books-at-library/
The TikTok ban: https://www.404media.co/the-u-s-wants-to-ban-tiktok-for-the-sins-of-every-social-media-company/
and Shrimp Jesus: https://www.404media.co/facebooks-algorithm-is-boosting-ai-spam-that-links-to-ai-generated-ad-laden-click-farms/

This is the full version of our talk. I livestream these every Tuesday: twitch.tv/dexdigi

the 'uncommitted' vote in Michigan is starting to surprise people, including the organizers of the movement itself. I brought on Evan (former VICE News, CNN, and other places), currently at NOTUS.org, to talk about his reporting on the activists.
Read the article he co-authored here: https://www.notus.org/biden-2024/uncommitted-delegate-biden-super-tuesday

Other articles referenced:

[NPR] 'Uncommitted' movement spreads to Super Tuesday states
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1236295096/super-tuesday-results-uncommitted-biden-gaza-israel

[Carnegie Endowment] Black Americans’ Opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/12/13/black-americans-opinions-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict-pub-91230