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The Webby Podcast
by The Webby Awards
The Webby Podcast is a weekly program celebrating the people and phenomena that make the Internet awesome. Hosted by Webby Awards CEO David-Michel Davies, the show features conversations with Internet innovators and experts, tips from The Webbys team, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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S10 E09: Marta L. Tellado
In the final episode of Season 10 of The Webby Podcast, David-Michel Davies speaks with Marta Tellado about Consumer Reports’ shift into the digital, the importance of educating younger generations on the protections they’re allowed as consumers, and what safeguarding consumer rights look like in...
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S10 E08: Emma Lembke
In this episode we are joined by Emma Lembke, who founded LOG OFF, a global movement to help youth re-examine their relationship to social media and insert Gen Z’s voice in discussions around responsible technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S10 E07: Rex Woodbury
In today's episode we sit down with Rex Woodbury, Partner at Index Ventures, founder and CEO of the app Worthy, and avid writer about the intersection of tech, culture and startups. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S10 E06: Jasmyn Lawson
On this episode of The Webby Podcast we sit down with special guest Jasmyn Lawson, who is a Content Executive at Netflix and a cultural media strategist. Centering on a passion for tech, media, and culture, Jasmyn has led a career dedicated to amplifying and championing Black stories made by…
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S10 E05: Accidentally Wes Anderson
On this episode of the Webby Podcast, we welcome our special guests Wally and Amanda Koval, Founders of the two-time Webby Winning project, Accidentally Wes Anderson, The Website. In 2017, Accidentally Wes Anderson started as an Instagram account to function as a visual bucket list for Wally and...
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S10 E04: Cathy Hackl
On this episode of the Webby Podcast, we’re joined by Cathy Hackl, better known as the Godmother of the Metaverse. As a seasoned strategist around new technologies, she has made extraordinary contributions to this new frontier. From consulting tech companies such as HTC VIVE and Magic Leap to her...
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S10 E3: Elle Key on The History of Sketch Comedy
Director, Writer and Producer Elle Key talks us through her podcast The History of Sketch Comedy, hosted and performed by her husband Keegan-Michael Key, and for which she won the Webby for Best Writing at the 26th Annual Webby Awards! Join us for a journey through the history of comedy, with...
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S10 E2: Michele Lawrence Jawando & Dr. Fallon Wilson on Responsible Tech
How do we promote responsible use of technology? And how do we make sure that everyone has equal and equitable access to it? Webby Awards President Claire Graves explored this and the responsibilities we have to each other as we use technology at the It’s Up To Us: A Responsible Tech Future…
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S10 E1: LeVar Burton
Actor, podcaster, TV host, children’s literacy advocate, and Webby Award winner LeVar Burton joins us as we kick off Season 10 of The Webby Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S9 E6: Professor Anita Hill
Professor Anita Hill has devoted her life to combating gender based violence. She is a lawyer, an educator, and was at this year’s Webby Awards to accept the Best Public Service and Activism Webby on behalf of Pineapple Street Media and The Meteor for the Podcast, Because of Anita. In 1991, she...
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S9 E5: Adam Scott
Adam Scott isn't just a podcast pioneer and award-winning actor, most recently in Apple+'s Severance. He's also the 26th Annual Webby Awards Best Actor Winner. In Severance, Adam Scott plays Mark an employee of Lumon Industries who agrees to a "severance" program in which his non-work memories…
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S9 E4: 2022 Webby Winner Roundtable
Host David-Michel Davies is joined by Claire Graves, President of The Webby Media Group and Steve Marchese, Webby Awards Chief Production Officer to discuss a few of their favorite Webby Winners ahead of the 26th Annual Webby Awards, happening Monday May 16th. Check out all of this year's winners...
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S9 E3: Hans Jørgen Wiberg
Hans Jørgen Wiberg is the founder of the Be My Eyes App, which connects blind and low-vision users with fully-sighted volunteers to help with daily tasks. Hans joins us to talk about the app's origin story, how they connect their surplus of volunteers to users in need of help, and their new...
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S9 E2: Chani Nicholas
Chani Nicholas is one of today’s most prominent astrologers, a Webby Award winner, and best-selling author. She’s also the founder of the CHANI app, which helps downloaders use astrology for radical self-acceptance. There, in addition to guiding the apps’ users on their personal journeys, she’s...
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S9 E1: 2022 Webby Nominees Roundtable
Season 9 of The Webby Podcast kicks off with a special roundtable on the 26th Annual Webby Awards Nominees. Host David-Michel Davies is joined by Claire Graves, President of The Webby Media Group and Steve Marchese, Webby Awards Chief Production Officer to discuss a few of their favorite Webby...
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Bonus: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is a food writer, and chef and cook of over 20 years. He’s behind the New York Times Best Seller The Food Lab, the website Serious Eats, and a YouTube channel that offers science-proven methods for home cooking. Kenji spoke to us about everything from cooking techniques to his...
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S8 E8: UNPCKD: Essentials for an Inclusive Internet
Listen to the first event in our series UNPCKD: Essentials for an Inclusive Internet, in partnership with the NAACP. A discussion on misinformation and disinformation campaigns that target AAPI and Black communities, featuring XiXi Yang, award-winning journalist and founder of XYZ Media, and...
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S8 E7: Allbirds with Jad Finck
Jad Finck is the vice president of Innovation & Sustainability at Allbirds. In 2014, the sneaker company started as a kickstarter to build running shoes using merino wool. Now, Allbirds has blossomed into both a full brand, and a mission-driven company that puts sustainability at the forefront.…
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S8 E6: Bellingcat with Eliot Higgins
Eliot Higgins is a citizen journalist and founder & executive director of Bellingcat, an international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists. They use the Internet — information available in maps, videos, social media and much more — to investigate and break some of the...
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S8 E5: YouGov with Hamish Brocklebank
Hamish Brocklebank, chief of YouGov Safe at YouGov — an international research data and analytics group — has built a tool that allows consumers get paid to share information about everything they do online. The consumers share what they buy, watch and play — all of which helps inform the next…
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S8 E4: The Meteor with Cindi Leive
Cindi Leive is a journalist, advocate and co-founder of The Meteor, a media collective whose goal is to advance the freedom and dignity of all women. They’ve produced a lot of very important work, from the Undistracted with Brittany Packnett Cunningham podcast, to their most recent tour de force…
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S8 E3: Waze with Noam Bardin
If you’ve driven a car, chances are you have used a GPS system, like Google Maps or Waze for the most accurate routes.Today, we talk to Noam Bardin, who served as CEO of Waze from 2009 until his departure in February. He joins us to talk all about the early days of the popular navigation app, and...
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S8 E2: Born This Way with Cynthia Germanotta
Cynthia Germanotta is the President of Born This Way Foundation, which she started with her daughter Lady Gaga in 2012. Through their initiatives they are providing tools to support the mental health of young people. They're also a foundational partner for The Anthem Awards.Through initiatives…
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S8 E1: Clubhouse with Maya Watson
In March, entertainment and marketing expert Maya Watson was tapped as the Head of Global Marketing at Clubhouse, at the helm of its meteoric rise. There, she’s laying the foundation for what Clubhouse can become, and how it can help creators who are hosting some of the Internet’s most…
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S7 EP 13: Overwrite: How We Live
For our final episode of the season, we share our final Overwrite virtual event: “Overwrite: How We Live.” Secretary Julián Castro: Host of Our America With Julián Castro, Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for the Obama administration and mayor of San Antonio joins…
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S7 EP12: WPEngine with Heather Brunner
Heather Brunner, CEO and Chair of WP Engine, joins to talk about how the WP Engine team has met the real-time needs of brands and businesses that were forced to pivot to online-only operations, by taking on new product demands. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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S7 EP11: YouGov with Tamara Alesi
Tamara Alesi, Sector Head of Agencies and Media, Americas at YouGov joins to discuss topics ranging from how Covid has effected the food choices of young people to its impact on holiday shopping - and even why older Americans are watching more news than ever. Hosted on Acast. See…
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S7 EP10: Comp-U-Dopt with Megan Steckly
Megan Steckly, is leading the charge to provide laptops to underserved students in cities across the country. She is the CEO of Comp-U-Dopt, a non-profit that provides students with refurbished computers, as well as educational opportunities surrounding STEM. We talk about her work, the digital...
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S7 EP9: Overwrite: How We Stay Healthy
For our third Overwrite event we focused on the new ways we keep ourselves healthy. We are joined by Andy Slavitt, former Administrator of CMS under Obama, host of Lemonada Media’s “In the Bubble,” and author of the book Preventable and Naj Austin, Founder And CEO, Somewhere Good And Ethel’s…
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S7 EP8: Autonomous Schooling and Honest Discussions with MK Asante
MK Asante is a filmmaker, scholar, professor, and author of his memoir Buck. He’s also the host of two Snap Originals docuseries “Free Tuition with MK Asante” and “While Black with MK Asante.” We talk about how current schooling models limit black students’ self expression, to how students thrive...
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S7 EP7: Consumerism and What We Buy Into with Kulap Vilaysack & SuChin Pak
Kulap Vilaysack & SuChin Pak join to talk about how shopping habits have changed from the early days of the pandemic to now, how our shopping habits reflect our relationship to money, our upbringing and more. We even touched what’s in our personal carts: for Kulap, it’s an e-bike, while SuChin…
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S7 EP6: Tech and Government with Megan Smith
Megan Smith, part of one of the most important teams in Silicon Valley in the late 1980s: General Magic and also the former Chief Technology Officer to the United States under President Obama joins us to talk about her role as the country’s CTO looked like, from pushing for tech policy to…
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S7 EP5: Overwrite: How We Learn
Our second Overwrite event featured David Rogier, CEO & Co-founder of Masterclass, and Wendy Kopp, CEO & Co-Founder, Teach For All, and tackle the lessons we have learned about how we learn in these unprecedented times. And then we have a special bonus conversation with Josie Jeffies, Design...
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S7 EP4: Navigating an Ecosystem of Polluted Information with Whitney Phillips
Misinformation. Conspiracy theories. “Lulz.” meme-ified racism and QAnon theories. Professor of Communications and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University, Whitney Phillips is with us to talk about how early alarms on trolling language were ignored, to how we need to reconstruct how our sites…
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S7 EP3: Sports & Podcasting in the Age of Social Media with Jalen Rose
Jalen Rose is with us to talk about basketball in the age of social media, being an early podcaster and the moments surrounding the killing of Breonna Taylor. Check out his new podcast, Renaissance Man! Our Producer is Taylor Griffin Our Editorial Lead is Jordana Jarrett Our Editor is Terence...
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S7 EP2: Overwrite: How We Advocate
Listen as we kick off the first of our five-part Overwrite event series, Overwrite: How We Advocate - a discussion on advocacy in the quarantine era with Rashad Robinson (President, Color of Change) and Shaniqua McClendon (Political Director, Crooked Media). Keep up with David-Michel @dmdlikes…
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S7 EP1: The Student Tracking Covid-19 with Avi Schiffmann
In early January Avi Schiffman, a high school student in Washington, was inspired to build a website to track a disease rapidly moving through China. He launched nCoV2019.live before the novel coronavirus had an official name, and long before elected officials took it seriously. 2020 Webby Person...
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S6 EP 12: Building an Accessible Internet with Sinéad Burke
Closing out Season 6 is a very special episode with Sinéad Burke, host of "As Me, with Sinéad." At The Webbys, we spend a lot of time looking at the Internet, and determining what we want it to be. Sinéad is someone actively doing the work to create the Internet we want. On her show, she…
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S6 EP 11: Contextualizing the Web with Glitch’s Anil Dash
Early Web pioneer and Glitch CEO Anil Dash has been a strong voice championing the core values of the Web since practically as long as it has existed. Along the way, he was an early executive at Movable Type, an adviser to the Obama Whitehouse’s Office of Digital Strategy, and adviser to…
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S6 EP 10: Waves of Design with The New York Times' Tracy Ma
If you remember those amazing Bloomberg BusinessWeek covers from back in the day or seen design in the New York Times that made you pause, chances are it was designed by Tracy Ma. Our next guest is one of the most impactful graphic designers out there today, and is currently a Designer for The…
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S6 EP 9: Beyond Museum Walls with The Met's Sofie Andersen
Our next guest, Sofie Andersen, has spent her career thinking about how the Internet and technology can enrich museums and museum going. Her work has transformed the experience of some of the world’s most visited museums, like the Whitney where she was the Director of Digital Media and the Tate…
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S6 EP 8: Decentralizing the Internet with the EFF’s Cindy Cohn
Data privacy has become hot button issue for anyone using the Internet. Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a key figure in protecting the digital civil liberties of millions of people around the world. She joins The Webby Podcast to discuss her first case at...
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S6 EP 7: Designing His Own Path in the Design World with John Maeda
For anyone who is part of the design world, the name John Maeda immediately commands respect. Having served as the President for the Rhode Island School of Design, transitioned to the world of Silicon Valley, and now in a new role at Publicis Sapient, our next guest has had a breadth of…
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S6 EP 6: Privacy and Protections with the ACLU's Jennifer Granick
The ACLU has been more visible in recent years, which is a great thing. Whether it’s fighting the US government’s Muslim ban or working to end the suffering of young immigrants at our borders, the ACLU has played a big role in the defense of American Civil Liberties and been a champion for their...
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S6 EP5: A News Community for the Compassionate with #NewsNotNoise’s Jessica Yellin
As the former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, our next guest Jessica Yellin knows a lot about why the news is so combative and uninformative, and is on a mission to change it. Her independent Internet news organization, NEWS NOT NOISE, is an oasis for people looking for just that - great...
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S6 EP 4: The Fight For Data with David Carroll
David Carroll is an Associate Professor of Media Design at Parsons School of Design, and is one of the main subjects of the Netflix documentary, The Great Hack. David’s been an advocate for data privacy for many years and as we discover in the documentary, initiates a type of UK freedom of...
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S6 EP 3: Working with Words featuring Textio’s Kieran Snyder
We write a lot on the Internet—emails, tweets, texts, direct messages—on any window, any device. This proliferation has impacted how we write, making good writing more important than ever. We’re joined by Kieran Snyder, co-founder of Textio, a company that makes machine learning software to…
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S6 EP 2: Accountability and Media Outsiders with The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur
Cenk Uygur and his online news show The Young Turks are known for keeping it real. That willingness to embrace what other political news programs won’t say is what’s kept TYT popular since its premiere in 2002. Uygur joins us for the Webby Podcast. Listen to his interview with host David-Michel...
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S6 EP 1: Saving Planet Earth with David Wallace-Wells
David Wallace-Wells isn't going to sugarcoat it for you: The climate is in a state of emergency, and we are running out of time to turn things around. But, can we still turn things around? Yes. With action. Journalist and author David Wallace-Wells joins us for the first episode of Season 6 of…
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BONUS: Webby and Lovie Award Winners Roundtable
The Webby Podcast is on a summer break, but we're putting out a special episode today celebrating some particularly amazing work that won both a Webby Award *and* a Lovie Award this past year. The Lovie Awards is the European sister to the Webby Awards, now in its ninth year celebrating the best…
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The Webby Podcast is a weekly program celebrating the people and phenomena that make the Internet awesome. Hosted by Webby Awards CEO David-Michel Davies, the show features conversations with Internet innovators and experts, tips from The Webbys team, and more.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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