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How TikTok (still) works

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How does Wall Street think about Trump, media and tech?

103

Why Katie Notopoulos still loves the internet

104

Looking back, and ahead, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw

105

1440’s newsletters are short, popular and profitable

106

Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0

107

How to build your own media company - without VCs or billionaires

108

Meet the man making money for Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly

109

Taylor Lorenz on Joe Rogan, Joe Biden and goodbye to big media.

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Elon Musk funds Trump — and owns Twitter. What does that mean?

111

Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett wants to win an election and make money

112

Emma Tucker brought fresh eyes to the Wall Street Journal

113

Tubi CEO Anjali Sud says you can’t beat free

114

Behind the scenes of the Trump movie you almost never saw

115

Matt Yglesias on the election, Substack success and the great unbundling

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I tried Orion, Mark Zuckerberg's $10k face computer

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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan wants to share the wealth

118

How David Remnick remade the New Yorker

119

Welcome to Channels with Peter Kafka

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That’s a wrap (for now)

121

Sam Altman’s back at OpenAI. What’s next?

122

What just happened to OpenAI?

123

Why so, Sirius?

124

No seriously. What’s the future of Disney? And why did Fox News fire Tucker Carlson?

125

Land of the Giants: What We All Got Wrong About Twitter

126

How Dropout found success streaming comedy for $6 a month

127

Inside the New York Times’ controversial Gaza headline

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How the Washington Post is covering the Israel-Hamas War

129

The rise and (maybe) fall of Marvel

130

The internet, explained by Taylor Lorenz

131

Warner Music Group’s CEO says AI songs are coming whether you like it or not

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HBO boss Casey Bloys on the strikes, the bundle and AI

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Why did it take 5 months to solve the Writers’ Strike?

134

Why did Rupert Murdoch just leave his media empire?

135

How Matthew Berry made fake football his real job

136

Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Rise and Fall

137

The Business of Taylor Swift

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It’s the US vs China with tech in between

139

CNN is Mark Thompson’s problem now

140

How The Try Guys survived going viral

141

Today, Explained: Sound of Freedom is the surprise movie hit of the summer

142

Land of the Giants: How Tesla became the Elon Musk Co.

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Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker says tech isn’t our problem - it’s us

144

Why Lina Khan is fighting big tech - and losing

145

Strikes! AI! And a Steven Soderbergh show he’s selling himself.

146

Can Meta Make a Twitter Killer?

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Why ESPN’s old boss made movies you can’t see - yet

148

How to make laughs on TikTok and action on Netflix

149

Is Instagram the place to unbreak news?

150

Meet the AI company that wants to remake Hollywood

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CNN’s CEO is out; Apple reveals its goggles

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NYT rising star Astead Herndon on podcasts, power, and the 2024 race

153

Meet the media insider who makes Succession feel real

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It’s TV’s biggest week - and TV is on strike

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Ken Jennings on the future of Jeopardy!

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How worried—or excited—should we be about AI?

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Jonah Peretti, Nick Denton and Ben Smith on digital news’ past and future

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Inside the AI Gold Rush

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AI is the future! AI is a fraud. Let's debate.

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Has Fox News learned a $787 million lesson?

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'Chef Reactions' blew up on TikTok. But will TikTok blow up?

162

Why is a talent agency buying pro wrestling? Plus a green media startup

163

Is Apple sure about Apple’s new Goggles? Plus Roger Bennett, Media Mogul

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Podcast pioneer Jesse Thorn built his own business. Now his employees own it.

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An SVB (phew!) update + Benedict Evans on the future of (almost) everything

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Science fiction pioneer Neal Stephenson on the metaverse, the movies and why he still believes in blockchain

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Meet the woman who got De La Soul streaming

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Real-life “Succession”: Jim Stewart on Sumner Redstone’s sordid saga

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We quiz BuzzFeed’s CEO about AI

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Why is tech in trouble if the economy is ok?

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Land of the Giants: The Hidden Hand Behind Your Swipes

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Don't tell investor Li Jin that Web3 is dead

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How The Last of Us went from hit game to hit zombie tv

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"Resist trying to make things better" - a conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos

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Was YouTube’s NFL deal a $2 billion mistake?

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Apple’s new goggles; Hollywood’s new streaming pitch.

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Reader Mail!

178

An Elon-free year in review

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A n00b’s guide to the Microsoft / Activision deal the FTC wants to stop

180

Why the media landscape is “dire” with WSJ’s Jessica Toonkel

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How Eventbrite survived the pandemic, and why it’s not fighting Ticketmaster

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It’s not TV it’s HBO — the book

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How to watch a complicated World Cup

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Life, the internet, and everything with Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick

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What Elon’s past tells us about his present

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Tech’s big bust, plus Marvel (and Wakanda) Forever?

187

Election special with Punchbowl's Jake Sherman

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Jason Gay isn’t making Elon Musk jokes

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Bloomberg’s Matt Levine still loves crypto; Ankler’s Janice Min loves newsletters

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Ben Smith says Semafor will take 10 years to get right

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Netflix is back (?) + Julia Boorstin on women who lead

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Inside the curious mind of XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe

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Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Really. (Really?)

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Interview with Interview with a Vampire’s Eric Bogosian

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YouTube fights TikTok with cash

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José Andrés has a full plate, but he's adding more

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The inside story of YouTube

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Why the Good Fight creators are glad they moved from CBS to streaming

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Algorithms that give you anxiety and a Web3 project that doesn't suck.

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Home Box Office of the Dragon