SpinCycle aims to make sense of the 24/7 updates and hot takes we are bombarded with from media outlets, politicians and pundits all trying to own the narrative.
After Stan Grant's departure from the ABC, hosts Jess and Charlie discuss how various corners of the media responded, and the broader lack of inclusion and support of Indigenous voices in the Australian…
Award-winning author of The Trauma Cleaner, Sarah Krasnostein, Joins the Spin Cycle team for a chat through her latest piece for the Monthly - exploring the media response to 2022 Train family murders…
Najma Sambul returns to Spin Cycle this week. Jess and Najma reviewed the recent episode of Foreign Conversation, Surviving in Somalia, as an example of the vital reporting foreign correspondents do. They also…
Ben Abbatangelo, writer for The Saturday Paper and The Guardian, joins Jess and Charlie to discuss his debut piece for Indigenous X, covering Peter Dutton's comments on Indigenous issues, Jacinta Price and the…
Charlie Lewis is joined by guest-host Rachel Withers (The Monthly) covering for Jess Lilley. They're joined by special guest Kishor Napier-Raman, CBD columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age who covers…
Rachel Withers is Jess Lilley’s guest host this week on Spin Cycle. Together they explore policies and politicians after the recent NSW election, and the associated media coverage. They are also joined by…
Joshua Thorburn, criminology PhD student at Monash Uni, joins Jess and Charlie to discuss the ideologies of incels and femcels, and common misconceptions about this group due to coverage in the media. Jess…
Denis Muller, media editor, research consultant and specialist on media ethics and accountability, talks to Jess and Charlie about the role of public broadcasters in light of recent BBC controversy, and how the…
Jackie Turner, the Director of the Trans Justice Project, joins the team to chat about how to identify anti-trans misinformation and become more media-literate to anti-trans rhetoric popping up in reporting, both of…
Melbourne music writer & Journalist, Ben Madden joins Jess Lilley. They unpack his piece for Junkee on Bluesfest's rocky PR misadventures since announcing,and then eventually removing, sydney-based rock band Sticky Fingers from their…
Jess and Charlie chat with Alan Kohler, long time financial analyst for the ABC and all-round Finance journalist across a number of Australian publications, including The Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald and The…
After more than 60 years of constitutionally mandated pacificism, Japan is embarking on its biggest military spend since the second world war. The Spin Cycle crew is joined by the ABC's North Asia…
In this week's episode, Jess and Charlie talk to Matilda Boseley (she/her), a Melbourne-based reporter for The Guardian. Together they explore the different attempts to entice Australian youth into the news cycle via…
In Spin Cycle's return for 2023, Jess and Charlie speak to 4 Corners investigative reporter, Louise Milligan about her report on Opus Dei's influence in the NSW education system. Plus we discuss the…
Happy news year! Jess and Charlie wrap up the biggest media stories of 2022 just in times for Christmas. They chat to Najma, discuss some more recent stories and all of the wonderful…
This week, Spin Cycle's producer Adam joins Jess and Charlie in the studio to discuss a meaty GQ profile on the Liver King, which they find equal parts illuminating and silly. Jess and…
In this episode, Najma, Charlie and Jess debrief on the erratic media coverage of the Victorian State Election before Jess and Najma have an in depth conversation with author and journalist, Paddy Manning…
Jess and Charlie are joined in the studio by Katerina Kostakos and Jonathan Hawes to talk about MOJO Media, the broadcasting and news organisation run by Monash University journalism students. They also cover…
Charlie talks to Anna Draffin, CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Initiative, about the latest Australian News Data Report and what it may suggest about the near future of journalism and news consumption…
Jess is joined in the co-host chair by Rachel Withers, contributing editor of The Politics at The Monthly. They discuss journalists ramping up personal attacks on each other and the perennial problem of…
Just when you thought Twitter couldn’t get any worse – Elon Musk took over. Since the tech billionaire purchased the platform, he's made striking moves, including displaying his commitment to free speech by…
It's a heavy news week as Jess and Charlie discuss this week's Four Corners investigation into missing and murdered Indigenous women. The show revealed an epidemic of violence in Australia and yet the…
Najma is back with Jess for a fascinating chat with Walkley award winning reporter, Ben Doherty, about The Guardian’s remarkable new podcast, Ben Roberts-Smith v the media. The team also ask what’s going…
This week Spin Cycle welcomes The Age State Political Reporter, Sumeyya Illanbey to the studio to talk about the machinations of covering the November 24 Victorian state election. What do news rooms choose…
Luke Henrique-Gomes, The Guardian's social affairs and inequality editor, joins Jess and Charlie on the show this week to discuss current issues being covered in the media. They cover the crisis with cost…
On this week's episode of Spin Cycle, Jess and Charlie return and talk about Q+A's controversial panel inclusions, racism in the AFL, the UK's budget struggles and billionaires buying newspapers for their children.
This week on Spin Cycle, Jess and Charlie talk to Jess Ho, food writer and former food/drink editor of Time Out Melbourne. She is also the author of Raised By Wolves, a…
It's Radiothon time at Triple R and the entire Spin Cycle team has reunited to help spread the word about the importance of community and listener funded media. They're joined by special guest…
Jess and Charlie chat through the news stories of the week, the biggest involving Charlie's employer, Crikey, in the week that Lachlan Murdoch filed proceedings for defamation against the independent news site. They…
This week on a guest-free Spin Cycle, Jess and Charlie get into the details of Scott Morrison's many secret ministries, what senior journalists knew and when, and the ethics of holding back a…
Saffron Howden is a journalist providing editorial training to regional publications across the country with ACM (Australian Community Media). Charlie and Jess talk to her about the series, Young & Regional, encouraging young…
This week, the Spin Cycle team welcome award-winning journalist Michael Miller who has the spent the last year covering Australia as a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post. He talks through the…
This week, the Spin Cycle team is joined by Tom Ravlic, a journalist and author to discuss his new book Crown: Playing in the Shadows. Ravlic delves into how Crown was able to…
Charlie and Jess are joined by Iraq War whistleblower and independent MP, Andrew Wilkie, in this raw and fascinating discussion about the price whistleblowers pay and the urgent need for better protection.
This week, The Spin Cycle team are joined by The Age's Education Editor Adam Carey, for a longform conversation about all things education reporting. Learn about what its like to work on the…
This week on Spin Cycle, Jess Lilley welcomes special guest host and Triple R's own Elizabeth McCarthy. The two discuss the recent Logies Awards drama and share their thoughts on The Cut's recent…
This week's episode of Spin Cycle welcomes The Saturday Paper's Arts Editor Alison Croggan. Alison shares her thoughts on the developing Peter Hughes/Miles Franklin plagiarism scandal, and makes sense of Hughes' explanation in…
This week on Spin Cycle, Jess Lilley and Charlie Lewis welcome writer, lawyer, and defamation law specialist Michael Bradley. Michael shares his thoughts on 2022's rising defamation cases among public figures and comments…
This week on Spin Cycle, the team is joined by special guest Dr Glynn Greensmith, Journalism Lecturer at Curtin Uni, and ABC broadcaster/researcher. Glynn hops on the line to talk through the recent…
