All The President's Minutes - Minute 96 with Melissa Matheson

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All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 96, I talk with the head of editorial at Pedestrian Group, Melissa Matheson. Mel and I discuss that barbecues and lamingtons make Australia's election day the best in the world, the difficulty and the necessity of trusting journalists and their sources as an editor and the camaraderie for her journalistic peers past and present revisiting this minute in particular. 

About Melissa Matheson

Melissa Matheson is the head of editorial at Pedestrian Group, covering Business Insider, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and Kotaku. Matheson was the managing editor at Nova Entertainment's GOAT. Matheson was the digital content director and contributions manager at Australian Radio Network (ARN) and a senior editor at SBS World News. Before that, Matheson spent nine years at News Corp in several roles, including as the editor of mX Sydney.

Twitter: @Mel_Matheson

Blake Howard

Blake Howard is a writer, film critic, podcast host and producer behind One Heat Minute Productions, which includes shows One Heat Minute, The Last 12 Minutes Of The Mohicans, Increment Vice, All The President’s Minutes, Miami Nice and Josie & The Podcats. Endorsed and featuring legendary filmmaker Michael Mann, One Heat Minute was named by New York Magazine and Vulture as one of 100 Great Podcasts To Listen To and nominated for an Australian Podcast Award. Creator of the Australian film collective Graffiti With Punctuation, Blake is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic with bylines in Empire Magazine, SBS Movies, Vague Visages, Dark Horizons, Film Ink and many more.

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