Podcast appearances and mentions of richard poplak

Richard Poplak shares his take on the VBS scandal which could likely see the end of Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu sooner rather than later. The pair are part of the problem that saw the fall of the VBS bank. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Naomi Klein's provocative book Doppelganger explores the psychology of branding and how it has influenced our identities. It questions the idea that materialism leads to fulfilment and exhorts us to look for alternatives to live a more purposeful life. Reviewing with host Motheo Khoaripe is Richard Poplak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rob Rose, Editor of Financial Mail and the author of Steinheist on the unwinding of the retail company.   Richard Poplak, senior correspondent at the Daily Maverick on their press accreditation for the Russia-Africa summit being revoked with no reason given.    After 10 steep interest rate hikes, our consumer ninja, Wendy Knowler looked at whether banks are helping home loan customers to manage paying back their debt.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shamil Ismail, Analyst at Prima Research discuss a wrath of  issues facing Eskom and the effect of losing skilled staff members   Melvyn Lubega,  co-founder and director at GO1 discusses what it takes to build SA's next billion-dollar tech business – a unicorn   Business Book  review with Richard Poplak , Senior Correspondant at Daily Maverick - The Outlaw Bank : A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCC, by Jonathan Beaty & S C Gwynne   Other People's Money - Richard Calland, Political Analyst and Associate Professor at UCT See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Support us atwww.commonspodcast.com   Papua New Guinea is a part of the world that few Canadians ever think about. But for the people of Porgera, their lives have been shaped by the decisions of Canadian companies. It's hard to wrap your head around the atrocities that people in Porgera have suffered over the last thirty year. Environmental devastation. Murder as a matter of course. Hundreds of women and girls who have been raped.  So why is Barrick Gold, the company that has operated the mine for the last decade and a half, still celebrated across the country? And why is Barrick's founder, Peter Munk, still viewed as a philanthropic and corporate icon?   Featured in this episode: Everlyn Gaupe, McDiyan Robert Yapari, Stanley Peter, Cressida Kuala, Catherine Coumans, Richard Poplak   To learn more:   “Canadian Mining's Dark Heart” by Richard Poplak in The Walrus “The Shooting Fields of Porgera” by the Akali Tange Association “Raped by Canadian Gold Mine Guards, These Women Are Looking for Justice” by Hilary Beaumont in VICE News   Additional music from Audio Network   This episode is brought to you by Rotman's Executive Leadership Online &  Dispatch Coffee  Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the PR Wine Down, hosts April and Laura welcome special guests Diana Neille and Richard Poplak, directors of the industry-exposé documentary film, "INFLUENCE: the Rise and Fall of the World's Most Dangerous Public Relations Company." Together, the award-winning investigative journalists take our hosts behind the scenes to discuss the creation of the film, which premiered at Sundance last year and traced the rise and fall of the notorious British multinational PR firm, Bell Pottinger. They also discuss advancements in weaponized communication, analyze the forces shaping the geopolitical landscape today and assess the state of the PR industry on a global scale. April and Laura also deliver some practical advice for pitching to potential clients, read an Anonymous PR Horror Story about a Zoom call gone very wrong, and react to the recent news that The New York Times has retired the term "op-ed." INFLUENCE is available to watch in the U.S. today, on all streaming platforms. Find it on iTunes here: https://apple.co/3eMI9ue Learn more about INFLUENCE here: https://www.influence.film Read the PR News of the Week here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/opinion/nyt-opinion-oped-redesign.html Connect with Trust Relations on our website at https://www.trustrelations.agency/ Have an anonymous PR horror story to share or questions you want to hear answered on the show? Email us at contact@prwinedown.com. Follow us on social media, too! https://www.linkedin.com/company/trustrelations/ https://twitter.com/trustPRelations https://www.facebook.com/trustrelations https://www.instagram.com/trustrelations/?hl=en Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prwinedown/message

Hello Listeners! I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to the second series of the Docs & More podcast, where you’ve been able to hear from award-winning and Oscar nominated directors!! Including Deepti Gupta, Mart Bira, Asad Faruqi, Barry Avrich, Siji Awoyinka, Erika Cohn, Diana Nielle and Richard Poplak, Joel Bakan, Maia Lekow, Mia Donavan, Mina Keshavarz, Sharron Ward and Tamara Dawit. Their stories have covered a vast geographical area from Ethiopia and Kenya to Canada and the US, from Mongolia to Nigeria and from Pakistan and India to Hong Kong and Iran. These podcasts are my passion and I am glad they have reached such a wide, global audience. I would love to make a third series but for that to happen I need you. If you would like to see a third series, please consider donating some money - however little - through my ko fi page, at www.ko-fi.com/docsmore. Thank you. Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels).

Joining me this week on the Docs & More podcast, are two film makers, chronicling an extra-ordinary story. Diana Neille and Richard Poplak’s debut documentary, Influence, charts the world of advertising and PR, Bell Pottinger and the late Sir Timothy Bell. He’s probably best known as Margaret Thatcher’s, the former British Prime Minister, favourite spin doctor who relied on him to bring in results. The film looks at the man and the firm and what they did and how it all fell apart. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee https://ko-fi.com/docsmore.

Support us at canadalandshow.com/join Lord Tim Bell worked for a rogues' gallery of international clients, and co-founded one of the most powerful PR companies in history. But it all came crashing down when leaked emails exposed Bell Pottinger’s role in fomenting unrest in South Africa to distract from the Zuma government’s corruption. Richard Poplak and Diana Neille were on the team of journalists who obtained those leaks. Their documentary Influence chronicles the rise of weaponized advertising, and the fall of a controversial PR man. This episode is brought to you by Hover and Article. Additional music by Audio Network.

In this episode, we discuss Charles van Onselen's book "The Night Trains." It is the story of a "forgotten" railway line, the Easten Main Line, that transported the majority of South Africa's black mine workers to the Johannesburg goldfields. These mine workers came from the Sul do Save in southern Mozambique where a forced labour system called "shibalo" was in place. They were recruited by the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (the WNLA, also called "Mzilikazi") to go and work in the mines for very meagre wages. It's the story of migrant labourers who were considered nothing more than train freight, and who were scammed out of the little money they've earned. This is a discussion that makes reference to historical bias, and emphasizes the necessity to allow South African historians a voice in our history classrooms. What are the hidden stories behind South Africa's mineral revolution and industrialisation? We've drawn on reviews written by Richard Poplak, Dennis Webster, and Ferial Haffajee. Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=Q8KGSAT37YCPA&source=url)

Richard, Dianne and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Influence, fake news, lies and untruth, oppression and power, information overload, moral arcs and the politics of spectacle.TrailerGet tickets at Hot Docs online.And learn more about the film here.Synopsis:Influence is a profile of the morally slippery British reputation manager, Lord Timothy Bell. Born into a modest working class family, Bell climbed his way to the heights of global power, first spinning Margaret Thatcher into the “Iron Lady”, then working for the successors of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; later branching out into France, Africa, Russia, the Middle East and elsewhere.In 1998, Bell co-founded the legendary PR firm Bell Pottinger, which quickly earned a reputation for representing even the most unsavory characters, regardless of the circumstances. In tracking the particulars of Bell’s extraordinary life, the film examines the politicization of modern communication over the last 40 years—the winding journey from advertising to algorithms; television to Twitter.Influence examines how Bell and his associates shaped and co-opted the very institutions on which our governance systems are premised, quietly entrenching one of the most sophisticated—and successful—business ventures of recent times: the weaponization of democracy.About the Directors:Richard Poplak is an award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker. He has become one of the most widely read and controversial political journalists in South Africa, editing at large for Daily Maverick.Poplak has reported from over 30 developing countries for news outlets across the world, and he was part of a team that won the prestigious Global Shining Light Award for investigative journalism.Diana Neille is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker from Johannesburg, South Africa. A 2011 alumna of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Neille has subsequently co-founded two media startups with the intention of fostering long-form investigative storytelling and documentary filmmaking at a time when journalism is facing unprecedented challenges globally.Image Copyright and Credit: StoryScope Productions and Richard Poplak and Dianne Neille. Used with permission.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, "Influence" takes us into the world of marketing and manipulation within our most foundational public institutions. It’s grounded in the story of Lord TImothy Bell, the firm Bell Pottinger and a politically-charged South Africa, but the questions posed and the realities revealed should be important to all of us. A great conversation about deep journalism, following the money and media literacy.

Guest: Richard Poplak 

Norm Murray spoke with Director, Richard Poplak, about his new Documentary Film, "Influence". He co-wrote and co-directed with Diana Neille. The film introduces us to arguably the most controversial man the advertising industry ever produced, the late Lord Tim Bell. His PR firm, Bell Pottinger was infamously known for reputation-management of the most unsavory characters including, but not limited to, dictators, despots and arms dealers. "Influence" made it's World Broadcast Premiere on CBC and CBC Gem on May 21st and makes it's Canadian Festival Premiere at Hot Docs Festival Online, beginning May 28th.

In this episode of the History Slam, Sean Graham talks with Diana Nielle and Richard Poplak, writers and directors of the new film Influence, which looks at the influential Bell Pottinger PR firm and the rise of misinformation. They talk about the film’s origins, the extent of Bell Pottinger’s international operations, and how things came to […]

In this episode of the History Slam, Sean Graham talks with Diana Nielle and Richard Poplak, writers and directors of the new film Influence, which looks at the influential Bell Pottinger PR firm and the rise of misinformation. They talk about the film’s origins, the extent of Bell Pottinger’s international operations, and how things came to […]

This story of influence and weaponized communication centers on the infamous Lord Tim Bell and his associates, known for their controversial geopolitical spin-doctoring. Bell, who started his career in advertising, had an affinity for difficult briefs and “people with problems,” as he liked to call them. He designed campaigns for unpopular politicians, dictators, disgraced companies, and celebrities the same way he put together product branding—by being concise and brutal. In 1987 he cofounded Bell Pottinger, which quickly became one of the most influential reputation-management companies in the world—until one of those campaigns incited racial division in South Africa and ruined BP's reputation to a degree beyond spinning. Its cause of death was shrewdly described by the New York Times as “acute embarrassment.”Using a fascinating blend of archival footage and interviews with Bell and the people who worked with, for, or against him, filmmakers Diana Neille and Richard Poplak conduct an impressively thorough investigation into the politicization of modern communication. Influence is terrifyingly relevant in our current era of alternative facts and theatrical politics.

Richard is better know to South Africans as journalist at large for the Daily Maverick where he  writes under nom de plume Trainspotter.  He is recognized  for his acerbic wit, biting satire and razor sharp observations that have infuriated and amazed in equal measure over the last ten years. I pitched the discussion as a look at the year ahead and what 2020 night hold for South Africa and its people. Turns out quite a lot. And according to Richard there is not a lot to look forward to. At least in the short term. He says South Africa is facing multiple existential threats. We chatted about a number of things including the civil war racking the ANC, the parlous state of the main opposition parties, and the collapse of Eskom the state-owned power utility.  Our discussion did place South Africa in a global context of a post-truth, late-stage capitalism reality where norms of political behavior and activism are being re-written every day. Richard also give some background to the documentary film he has directed together with Dianne Neille, Influence, which takes an in depth look at the rise and fall of PR firm Bell Pottinger. The film will premiere at the Sundance film Festival on January 23. Read Richard on Helen Zille and the DA here (https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-25-get-out-a-gutted-da-stumbles-into-the-past/) .

“Organized crime, smuggling, drug trafficking, human trafficking, terrorism - you can sort of name it, and Mali is afflicted by it.” Swept up in part by Islamist extremism, the U.N’s peacekeeping mission in Mali is one of the deadliest in recent history. Canada has been part of this larger effort since last year. As it draws to a close, journalist Richard Poplak talks to guest host Michelle Shephard if it made good on Canada's promise to return to peacekeeping.

Scholar and anti-apartheid activist Raymond Suttner and Daily Maverick journalist Richard Poplak talk about the ANC, a month before the party's elective conference.

Daily Maverick's Richard Poplak discusses the calamity across SA politics. Then the team talks about what Juba's last post office means for South Sudan, and the dodgy networks looting Zimbabwe's diamond fields.

Daily Maverick's Richard Poplak joins the team to talk about what we learned, or failed to learn, from the ruling party's policy conference.

CliffCentral.com — Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma didn't complete her tenure as AU Commission Chair smelling like a bed of roses. She's accused of having been "a disappointing failure although she was praised for the managerial improvements she made". Now an influential faction of the ANC wants to position her to take over from Jacob Zuma as president of the party - and ultimately of the country should the ANC win the 2019 national election. Andrew and Rori speak to journalists Simon Allison, Africa Editor of Mail&Guardian; and Richard Poplak, senior contributor at Daily Maverick.

Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist who has lived in Beijing and Taiwan for more than half of the past 30 years, writing for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and other publications. Ian has written two books: one on civil society and grassroots protest in China (Wild Grass) and another on Islamism and the Cold War in Europe (A Mosque in Munich). His next book, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao will be published in April 2017. Ian has covered the gamut of religious topics in China from the recent tightening of controls on the faithful to shariah with Chinese characteristics to Taoism, and is uniquely qualified to discuss the subject of this episode of the Sinica Podcast: the complicated relationship between the Vatican and the Chinese Communist Party. Kaiser, Jeremy, and frequent guest host David Moser talk to Ian about the Catholic Church in China: the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in the 16th century, the current state of Catholicism and what the recent apparent warming of relations between the Church and the Party means. Recommendations: Jeremy: Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa's Changing Fortunes, by Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak. Ian: The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village, by Henrietta Harrison. David: The Mandarin learning website Hacking Chinese. Kaiser: The Westworld TV series.

Kingsley and Greg are joined by Richard Poplak and Koketso Moeti talking through all the biggest stories of the past week.

Jenny spoke to Redi about books that one would read alone in a restaurant and she also reviewed the following books: Continental Shift by Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak, ‘From A To X- a Story of Letters’ By John Berger, Blood Safari by Deon Meyer and previewed the Franschhoek Literary Festival

President Jacob Zuma is under mounting pressure to resign and the ANC can't fill up a stadium. The Daily Maverick's Ranjeni Munusamy and Richard Poplak join the team and discuss everything you need to know about local politics.

In their new book "Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa's 21st Century," South African authors Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak embarked on 14-country odyssey across two continents over a span of five years to report on Africa's changing economic, political and social landscapes. What they discovered along the way was that China's role had become pivotal in so many of the African countries they visited.  The Chinese presence in Africa, they observed, "is the defining phenomenon of our time." Bloom and Poplak don't advocate that China's ever-expanding engagement across the continent is either good or bad for Africa. It's neither, it's both, it's complicated. What isn't in dispute, though, is that China is changing Africa either through new infrastructure, more trade, imported labor, corruption and in countless other ways. The two journalist/authors join Eric & Cobus to discuss their new book and their perceptions of China's role in Africa's 'continental shift.' If you'd like to join the conversation: Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProject Twitter: @eolander & @stadenesque Web: www.chinaafricaproject.com

The team sits down with award winning authors Richard Poplak and Kevin Bloom as they launch their new book 'Continental Shift'. We hear about their nine-year journey around the African continent, distilling hundreds of human stories into 10 essays on the continent's contradictions.

The team chat to Daily Maverick journalists Ranjeni Munusamy and Richard Poplak about the biggest news stories circulating in South Africa.

With 2015 coming to a close, Daily Maverick journalists Greg Nicolson, Ranjeni Munusamy, Richard Poplak and Simon Allison discuss the biggest news stories of the year.

As Cosatu finally meets for its special national congress, what's the future of the labour movement and what influence will it have on the tripartite alliance? Greg Nicholson and Daily Maverick intern Fatima Mathiva find out from Ranjeni Munusamy. They also look at the Western Cape High Court ruling against garnishee orders on poor farm workers and speak to Richard Poplak about the first African team in the Tour de France.