Don’t know the backstory, but listening to your show nearly daily had become something I looked forward to. Our station has replaced your time slot with Freshair. It is lovely and inspiring, but airs 2x each day, so I would rather have the opportunity to listen to both. Hope you are all faring well and that you may return in some form or fashion soon!!!

I’m so sad it’s over, I recently started following this show on podcasts because I wanted to finish episodes I started hearing in the car. I really enjoyed that The Takeaway talked about interesting topics that were a little off the beaten path. They shared different perspectives and I really enjoyed it.

I can’t believe this podcast is ending. I’ve learned so much from this very informative program. Wishing the best to all the staff and employees.

I discovered this podcast during the pandemic and have really appreciated the points of view and information. No idea what I will replace it with! Thank you MHP and team for your excellent work. You’ve helped me learn and grow.

I’m crushed to learn this podcast is ending … I feel like I only just found you! These episodes encapsulate big ideas quickly, without much loss to either detail or nuance. Additionally, to a U.S. listener, each topic covered is one at the heart of our democracy. Although topical, each episode always examines one of the cultural, structural, moral, legal, or political underpinnings of our nation. That’s really what you want: a show which, by examining the particulars, can reveal the fundamentals, and then explain the whole picture. Wow, am I going to miss you.

I am thrilled beyond measure that Ms. Perry is on the air! The Takeaway is smart and informative, having conversations that we all need to hear and learn from.

Melissa Harris-Perry’s The Takeaway is inspiring and grounded at the same time. My local station, KQED, dropped it from the line-up and put a big hole, not just into the day, but into my daily reminders of how we are really faring. No other show covers how women, particularly women of color, in the country are doing in quite the same way. Hers is a voice from within. Please consider podcasting the show whole rather than in topical pieces.

…her style and stories are vital esp the deep dives.

I have long been a fan of public intellectual Melissa Harris-Perry. I watched her MSNBC show weekly when it ran in the early to mid 2010s and was thrilled when she was named host of The Takeaway. She doesn’t disappoint. Her interviews are warm, thoughtful, bold, and unapologetic in naming racial justice, gender, disability rights, the importance of healthcare access (including abortion), democracy reform, and otherwise. Great range of topics and guests. Highly recommend.

I try to listen to Mellisa Perry as often as I can , her shows a interesting and informative. I love she speaks to me and my concerns as a woman in America.

Utilizes too much “newspeak” and doesn’t give enough time to the important stories it gives an entire 8 minutes to, after intro and ads. When the topic is of personal interest to the host, much more passion and enthusiasm is given to those stories. This is, of course, at the expense of equally important stories, that are often being left up to “experts” and “authorities,” whether capable or prepared to provide adequate comment or information on the topic, or not. Minimization and misinformation are the result of externalizing the news coverage to any willing commentators. Platforming pitches for insufficient or downright ignorant “solution” for each social problem. This podcast is far from “progressive” and is insincere in it’s goals. Much better podcast before current host. It’s just a centrist corporate mouthpiece that rarely gets it right, and I’m happy to get coverage on these topics on Today in Focus (The Guardian), Post Reports, The Slow Newscast, The Daily (NYT), There Are No Girls on the Internet, The New Abnormal (The Daily Beast), and even other daily NPR podcasts like Here & Now and 1A every chance I get. Every time I try to give this podcast a new go, I find myself getting more upset with the messaging than feeling compassion for the subject matter being covered — and that’s extremely unusual for me. It’s just too corporate and mistakenly depends on political pundits and so-called “experts” to do the reporting for the host. It’s not reporting if no reporting on behalf of the publisher, goes into it.

I first saw Ms. Perry at The New School in New York where she was a member of a panel with Chris Hayes, Eric Foner, and Katrina Vanden Heuvel. She keeps issues of dire importance to the vast underclass front and center, but she does it with panache, intelligence, and a great reserve of patience for a society that too often is dangerously indifferent to the majority of its members. Without people like her, determined, capable, honest reporters of the growing national crises we face each day we would be in a very sorrowful state indeed. Kudos to her, and her staff, for the good work they do to right ourselves for the common good.

An outstanding commentator and interviewer. So good to hear Melissa Harris Perry’s brilliant voice on NPR. Keep the diversity trend going.

Melissa Harris-Perry has brought a huge breath of fresh air to NPR as well as to The Takeaway. Her gifts include the fact that she relies on her academic discipline to always be thoroughly prepared for her interviews. And then, in the most empathetic way I have ever heard on either radio or TV, she is able to connect with her guests and put them so completely at ease. This is especially true with guests who have to relate their own personal tragedies or traumas. Her ability to gently lead such guests to relate these difficult experiences without breaking down on the air is singular within the broadcast media. This ability, in my estimation, makes a living legend within NPR, and is why I try to listen to her live broadcast everyday. Thank you, Melissa!

I love the way Dr. Harris-Perry conducts interviews! The topics she covers are important and interesting.

The topics are quite interesting. BUT, Melissa’s voice turns my stomach! She has such a phony tone of voice ! Pathetic and conveys a superficial perspective! One star for topics; one for the presenter. I used to like The Takeway. Now I ditch it.

I am a huge fan of the Take Away but, your conversation with Holly Robinson Peet about autism spoke directly to me. As a mom with an autistic daughter I was very happy to listen to this episode. I appreciated her transparency and yours. Thank you very much for letting me know I am not alone.

I’m a middle aged black woman who lived through gentrification of my neighborhood. I was a member of organization that help get trees planted and cared for in my neighborhood. I have to tell you as someone who loves trees it was so annoying hearing your guest talk about “tree equity.” Can the left talk like real human beings and not tack the latest leftist buzz words on everything? It’s silly and turns off people. You can talk about trees in a way that generates interest and enthusiasm. There’s no need to weigh it down with mind numbing leftist terminology mill.

Truly. Moronic.

This episode is an inspiring tribute to the life, work and legacy of bell hooks. The segment with the founding members of the Crunk Feminist Collective explores important themes of what it means to meet young people where they are. Melissa Harris-Perry is doing great work with the Takeaway.

A string of woke platitudes - utterly predictable and often offensive to someone seeking fact based discussions carried out by critical thinkers who want to get to truth.

Podcast Listeners come to the podcast space longing for two things: 1. Content and stories that the mainstream media ignores or worse purposely rejects. AND 2. Nuanced long form discussions that are, for the most part, uncut and unedited. The Takeaway accomplishes #1 but fails at #2. In college a 50% on an exam is an F, hence the 1 star review. Much like Cable News, in the Takeaway as soon as you get to to the meat of the discussion the show has moved on to the next block/story. 😞 There’s potential here though.

Where do I start? If the left wants an outlet that outdoes Fox News as far as bias…. Congratulations! You have the takeaway. If I want to get angry from hearing flat-out lies, I listen to this show. From the “courage” of athletes to crap all over the one and only country that men and women have DIED to give them the freedom to act out their”bravery” to do what they are immediately lauded for, and called heroes 😂, to slandering the men and women who keep our borders safe from terrorists deliberately misrepresenting horse reigns as whips!? They are either incredibly stupid or extremely manipulative. Remember this is a national PUBLIC radio show! Yeah right. This is the most politically divisive show I’ve heard in a long time, and this is obviously their objective, AWFUL!

American women with the help of men have continued to pursue advancement and equality for all women. You do us no favor by seeking equality by stepping on their work and forgetting the sacrifices born by them. You hurt me deeply by attacking “white” women and feminism, they are my sisters too, and I join them in elevating all humanity to a kinder and gentle world that children can be born into.

Really appreciate Melissa Perry as host of this show!

I started listening a couple years ago and at first really liked this perspective of their coverage. I found myself starting to leave episodes un-listened-to, tho, because it was feeling like either Tanzina Vega’s interview style had changed or I had. She asks extremely long questions that seem more like editorializing with a question mark at the end, and it feels like the interviewees are boxed in by this style. I enjoy more open ended questioning where the expert can offer their perspective instead of (what feels like) having to parse thru where the host is trying to get them to go. I am bummed to give this up because I really liked having this as a news source but it’s just not for me any longer.

The topics of this show are great - interesting, informative, and refreshing. The host, though, interrupts her guests so much it’s honestly distracting and annoying. She interjects when they are truly mid-sentence, and I wish they would have been able to finish their thought, because these are professors, scientists, reporters etc - people with great insights. I just can’t listen even though I love every other NPR host.

mellow, fierce and informative. the real deal.

The takeaway consistently covers important topics in depth and really dives into the issues by bringing in top notch guests. If I had to pick only one podcast to help me stay informed it would be the takeaway.

Setting the right tone we need right now

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UpChuck Todd gets some made up gift from Poynter and then makes a horse’s backside out of himself with his Five “Naive” Hasbara shovel in Rolling Stone... ...and this Big Apple media doormat ignores all of it in yet another blatant access play. A completely worthless “media” analysis shtick. Expect this Big Apple media doormat to bring UpChuck on her daily shovel after the first of the year to whine “Me UpChuck! Me Victim!”

I enjoy the in depth exploration of key news stories, and the podcast lets me listen far earlier than my local NPR station broadcasts the show (9 pm!) BUT the podcast doesn’t include all the segments of the broadcast show, which runs for about an hour. Fortunately, the podcast makes it easy to find those left-out segments by providing links to the Takeaway website.

I discovered this show on my morning drive via Oregon Public Broadcasting radio - always late to work. Now I’m hooked on the podcast because I can take the time to listen to it in full, on my own time. Tanzina Vega is one of my journalism superheroes. We need more shows like this, more bold and tough radio hosts like Vega. So damned good. Listen! Tell your friends!

I’ve loved The Takeaway for about 4 years, and found it an excellent relatively mainstream source for insight on underreported topics. Unfortunately, I’m leaving 3 stars, because the Friday episodes with Amy Walter are just more centrist political noise than anything valuable. It’s very biased against the actual left in politics, and seems to be another cog in the status quo wheel. You’ll hear right wing people and liberals, but any leftist who is interviewed (rarely, except for Bernie Sanders because they kind of have to) is grilled and treated as pie in the sky dreamer. Very disappointing, and I wish it would be the way it once was, or have a real journalist hosting. The country doesn’t need more centrist insiders being platformed, when we face existential threats like climate change and fascism.

I like how this show makes us hold compassion for the animal in a situation. I would love to see this podcast push and open itself to indigenous knowledge about animals in the wild. How much of what we know comes from indigenous people who lived nearer to animals than we do now? This is a white man doing this work and while I do find the show interesting, I wonder if the show will consider how white people “exploring” has led to lots of harm and I wonder how much he has learned from elders of any place.

Interesting interviews and information

I am always trying to listen to the side’s political views and shows like this can help further engagement But when you completely mischaracterise guests like the Pelosi-bot who was described as “non partisan” and “independent” on Social Security issues, you made me angry. Agree or not, she was not as you described. She dismissed and slandered everyone who disagrees with her. Denigrated solutions like 401ks and private programs, etc. She subscribed to conspiracy theories about billionaires. She dodged simple questions, and then blathered on about fairness. Her one bit of clarity was describing SS as an insurance program, vice an individual retirement fund. She was as dependent on the dem platform and as partisan as possible. please don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

This podcast covers all the topics you'd expect, and a lot of stories you wouldn't. Tanzina Vega has been a great host, navigating all the week's news. The Takeaway team are all very sharp too. The Friday conversations with Amy Walter have been really interesting as well, more in-depth on political topics behind the scenes. All in all this show is a great way to keep up with the news and conversations behind the headlines, and hearing from listeners is always great too.

Prefer in-depth analysis with guests. This one follows the usual trend, keeping it mostly superficial, entertaining, and with music and sound bites for variety. Love Amy Walters' commentary, and she is among the very best, but on the podcast she is yielding to entertainment realities.

The addition of Amy Walter on Friday is just great, because she is!

Great podcast!

It’s okay. There’s some moderately deep dives on extremely specific topics, but in doing that, I think the pod falls short of the full picture. Loses context in dealing with the details. Also, like most NPR casts, leans center-left and is careful not to endorse dem-socialist views.

Walter is the best.

Love this channel!!

The frame, flow and content of the program allowed me to visualize and be fully present in the issue. Really appreciated the contextual nature of the conversation. Brilliant move to bring Amy Walter to this show!

This show covers a really wide array of issues and they are more frequently diving deep on some of these topics. Production value is also pretty great.

Thoughtful, informative, balanced, well produced — perfect

I was thrilled to hear a variety of opinions from Americans about what it means to be an American. Not to mention the interview with one of my favorite Americans, Jimmy Carter. This is a much needed conversation.

Takeaway has changed my belief in journalism. I am impressed with the coverage and the choice of their topics. I like the host Todd Zwillich the most.