Catherine Herridge on the Future of Journalism
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Guests: Catherine Herridge & James Webb
Host Scot Bertram talks with Catherine Herridge, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and founder of Catherine Herridge Reports, about the state of modern journalism and the importance of journalistic integrity. And James Webb, associate professor of accounting at Hillsdale College, tells us what’s fun about accounting.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:24.8 | One of the arguments I've always made is that, in fact, more people will access that information on a platform like X than they ever will on broadcast television. |
| 0:35.1 | That interview with Secretary Rubio, I think it stands at nearly |
| 0:38.9 | 10 million engagements or views right now. This is larger than any major network broadcast. |
| 0:46.5 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale |
| 0:53.0 | College Podcast Network. That was Catherine |
| 0:55.9 | Harridge, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist. We go in-depth with her today in a wide-ranging |
| 1:01.1 | conversation. Also later on in today's program, Dr. James Webb will tell us what's so fun about |
| 1:07.1 | accounting. But first, we're joined by Catherine Harridge, Emmy-winning investigative journalist. |
| 1:13.0 | You've seen her on Fox, CBS, and elsewhere. Also writing and reporting now at Catherine |
| 1:17.7 | Harwich Reports.com. She's our Pulliam fellow here on Hillsdale College's campus in fall of |
| 1:24.5 | 2025, which means she's here for about a week and a half, teaching our |
| 1:28.1 | journalism students and giving a public lecture and happy to have her in studio today. |
| 1:32.3 | Catherine, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:33.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:34.7 | You have spent decades covering national security, covering intelligence. |
| 1:39.5 | Your public lecture here at Hillsdale, you'd said something that struck me, which is that |
| 1:43.1 | 9-11 was the turning |
| 1:45.6 | point for the quality of national security reporting here in the U.S. What's happened since then, |
| 1:53.3 | and how do you think Americans have been less informed? Well, I do believe 9-11 was a turning |
| 1:58.4 | point. It was for me personally and professionally. I was in New York on 9-11, and then I came to Washington in October of 2001 as the first network television correspondent assigned to the Homeland Security beat when I was at Fox News. I just believe that 9-11 there began a very dangerous slide for national security reporting. |
| 2:20.3 | The country was very united after 9-11. |
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