Audio: Excerpt from Reel Politik Ep. 304 Trashies Fever feat Sam Asumadu (with mention of Dan Davies and Seumas Milne!)
Jack and Geraint are joined by journalist Samantha Asumadu to talk about The Trashies, the UK’s premier awards for bad journalism, which she’s been running via Media Diversified since 2014, and are returning this year after a short absence. We go through some of the worst dogshit printed by the British press in recent memory!
Listen to the full hour episode here
INVITATION
VOTING FOR THE UK’s PREMIER AWARDS FOR BAD JOURNALISM CLOSES ON FRIDAY!!
This year’s nominees for The Trashies left us spoiled for choice. For the many people who nominated Douglas Murray’s whole body of work, don’t worry — his lifetime achievement award will soon come.
Read more about why Media Diversified hosts The Trashies Awards here.
The Trashies Awards Ceremony is Wednesday, Sept 25, 2024 at 19:00 PM.
Ruby Zoe Hotel, 164 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3QG
Follow @WritersofColour and checkout the hashtag #TheTrashies on any social media for more info and to keep up to date with the happenings!
VOTING closes at midday on Friday 20th September.
To help the Trashies Awards go off with a bang on the 25th September you can donate here to buy the team behind the dream a drink!
BUY YOUR DISCOUNTED TICKETS FOR THE TRASHIES HERE with code: GlobalMajority
Doors open: 19:00 | Performances: 20:00 | Awards: 21:00 | Closes: Midnight |
Joshua Idehen will be doing an exclusive set, reciting poetry from his unreleased poetry book:
Songbook: Collected Works / Joshua Idehen
“The poet laureate of UK jazz.” Kate Hutchinson, The Guardian
“One of the most important writers working today.” Dr Obaro Ejimiwe aka Ghostpoet
“A writer whose poems leap from the page. A melody we tune ourselves to, whether in struggle or liberation. The ask is to be present, through it all.” Yomi Ṣode
Joshua idehen is releasing his next single, the viral thread turned song MDTW on Sept 20th
Lalah-Simone Springer will be kicking off the Trashies, reciting poems from her debut collection: An Aviary of Common Birds
Lalah-Simone Springer is a working class poet and speculative fiction writer from Dagenham, Essex (she/they).
Lalah’s debut poetry collection, An Aviary of Common Birds was published by Broken Sleep Books in August 2023, alongside their band’s debut album, Cyclical Music.
Lalah was long-listed for the Merky New Writers Prize in 2021 and has been published on the ANTHEMS podcast, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Onyx Magazine and more.
Founder of Media Diversified, Samantha Asumadu, MC aka Mama Junk on the MIC hosting the Awards
Samantha Asumadu is an award losing journalist and former documentary filmmaker.
Presenter of Trashiest Publication of the Year is Natasha Devon!
Natasha has a weekly radio show on LBC (Saturday from 6pm). She is a patron for Pride at Global, which works on LGBTQ representation across all of Global Media brands.
Natasha is a writer, broadcaster & activist. She tours schools, universities, and events throughout the world, delivering talks as well as conducting research on mental health, body image, gender and equality. She campaigns both on and offline to make the world a fairer place.
THE AWARDS
TRASHIEST PUBLICATION
Once again we have The Trashies award for worst UK publication of the year (Between October 2023 – September 2024).
While there are many deserving publications around the world, our mostly UK-based team means that we’re again concentrating on the mainstream media that’s closest to home.
TRASHIEST TV SEGMENT
The most popular egregious reporting and broadcast journalism
TRASHIEST COLUMNIST
You have to have ego if you are a comment writer. You have to have ego and access to be a member of the columnist class, though. A small circle of very privileged people, some from working-class backgrounds but most from middle, and upper middle-class, public-schooled, redbrick silos.
TRASHIEST ARTICLE
We wish all the nominees luck!
SEE ADVANCE VOTE RESULTS HERE
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Enquiries: mediadiversityuk@gmail.com
P.S I know there is going to be some non-black women and/or middle class women who try to take my experiences and use them as their own. Trust me, I will hunt you down if you do and you will catch these hands.
The Trashies 2024