Open Britain Announces New Partnership with Media Storm Podcast

Presented by journalists Helena Wadia and Mathilda Mallinson, Media Storm has built a reputation for investigative reporting that challenges disinformation, platforms underrepresented voices and asks difficult questions about the systems shaping public life.

At a time when trust in politics and the media feels increasingly fragile, healthy democracy depends not only on fair elections, but on fair information, public trust and honest public conversation. That means creating space for thoughtful debate, challenging misinformation and listening to the people too often spoken about rather than spoken to.

That’s why this partnership makes so much sense.

As Helena and Mathilda explain:

“We are so excited to be partnering with Open Britain. Media Storm podcast has worked tirelessly for years to platform the people missing in the mainstream media – minorities and marginalised groups who are so often spoken about, but rarely ever spoken to.

We have held powerful people to account, led investigations into important stories that barely get a look-in in the legacy press, and sought to eradicate disinformation in the media, episode by episode.

When we learned about Open Britain's five missions, we knew we were in perfect alignment. Upcoming episodes will include exposing foreign interference in politics, asking how we make our voting system work for everyone, and finding out what is behind the media's obsession with ‘angry young women’.

You can request topics you’d like to see investigated — and headlines you’d like to see called out — via Open Britain. We hope you will love listening to Media Storm as much as we love creating it.”

The first episodes from the partnership launch next week, beginning with an investigation into foreign interference in UK politics.

If you haven’t listened to Media Storm before, now is the perfect time to start. It’s rigorous journalism with a clear sense of purpose - and a refusal to treat the people at the centre of stories as background detail.

Find out more and listen to episodes here.