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Why the Democrats finally got on TikTok

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Land of the Giants: Why Instagram Broke Its Square

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B.J. Novak on “Vengeance”, podcasts and the downside of the streaming boom

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What is the metaverse, when is it going to show up and who’s going to run it?

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Ken Auletta on the Harvey Weinstein story he wrote, the story he couldn’t write, and the one he’s publishing now.

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Netflix has a huge hit with Peaky Blinders — and Caryn Mandabach owns it.

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The future of: Crypto criticism; Substack and ABC News

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Is this a Netflix problem or a streaming problem?

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Bill Simmons on podcasts, celebrity interviews and life at Spotify

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Why is this VC on your TikTok?

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Engineer Molly White explains why Web3 isn’t going great

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Is Big Tech getting better about misinformation?

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What can you learn from the guy who built the iPod?

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Ronan Farrow: “We are living in a post-privacy age”

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Behind the scenes at Apple with journalist Tripp Mickle

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NYT’s Wesley Morris on writing, podcasting and staying off TikTok

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Can Elon Fix Twitter? Can Reed Fix Netflix?

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Elon and Twitter: A love/hate story

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Disney vs. Itself vs. The Right

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The State of Streaming

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Judd Apatow on The Bubble, TikTok and The Slap

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The Oscars: Hollywood’s smallest biggest night?

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Dan Le Batard on life after ESPN; Russia sanctions upend big-time soccer

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Big Tech takes a side, finally + Zappos' tragic founder

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Covering the war in Ukraine, online and on the ground

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Uber, but for TV

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Chuck Klosterman relives the 1990s & Sarah Palin loses her NYT libel suit

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What's next for CNN? + The Afterparty's Ben Schwartz writes jokes for C-3PO

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Is Spotify’s Joe Rogan problem over? Plus how to launch a new media startup.

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Game on: Behind the sports betting boom

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Gaming out Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal

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So … what the hell is Web3? With the Chernin Group’s Jarrod Dicker

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How the right covers 1/6 + tales from the Theranos trial, with Oliver Darcy and Erin Griffith

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The Verge’s Ashley Carman on podcasting’s big year

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What the hell happened in 2021? With Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw.

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WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar’s almost-exit interview

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BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti has gone public

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@Jack is leaving Twitter. What now? + Lina Khan’s battle with Big Tech

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Director Rhys Thomas on his unlikely journey from SNL to Disney’s Hawkeye

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The inside story of HBO, with Jim Miller

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What is Twitter Blue and is it worth $3?

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Facebook’s Metaverse explained - by metaverse explainer Matthew Ball. Plus Justin Smith builds a media biz for Bloomb

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How to cover the Facebook leaks + SNL’s Heidi Gardner

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Dotdash CEO Neil Vogel on his $2.7 billion Meredith deal

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Land of the Giants: "He's No Steve Jobs"

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Ozy Media, RIP with NYT’s Ben Smith + Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on remaking a magazine giant

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Streamers shrink Hollywood, again + What’s a “Hate Raid”?

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How Peter Thiel went from Silicon Valley to The White House with Max Chafkin

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Instagram boss Adam Mosseri on teenagers, Tik-Tok and paying creators

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Big changes at Apple: New phones, new AR glasses, and big app store changes.

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Defector Media: Life after Deadspin is good (and profitable)

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OnlyFans’ weird week with MEL’s Magdalene Taylor; BuzzFeed’s Joe Bernstein on the problem with our misinformation problem.

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WWE’s Nick Khan on pivoting his streaming strategy and getting back in the ring

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NYT’s Shira Ovide on the everything and nothingness of tech.

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Reese’s $900 million deal; ScarJo vs Disney with Matt Belloni, + Derek Thompson on how the media covers Delta

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Director Tom McCarthy on Stillwater, finishing a movie in a pandemic and playing one of the Wire’s best villains

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Deep fakes come to the movies and Hollywood resets for the streaming era

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WeWork's rise and fall (and rise again?) with Eliot Brown

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Kevin Delaney turns the future of work into a media business; plus a Sun Valley update from David Gura.

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Men In Blazers’ Roger Bennett loves soccer and America

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One of the most popular streamers on Twitch… is a lefty political commentator? Hasan Piker explains

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One of Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors is now a media company, too

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Jake and Amir on being Web famous, fed up with Hollywood, and podcast bosses

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How to make it in the creator economy with Rob Walker

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Why is Amazon buying MGM?

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Jim Miller on HBO’s new home; Alan Yang on a very different season of “Master of None”

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Why did AT&T just bail on WarnerMedia? And what happens next?

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Antonio García Martínez's controversial exit from Apple

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Live music is back! Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino can't wait

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The Jeff Bezos Empire with Brad Stone & Jason Del Rey

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Apple vs Epic with John Gruber; Truth, Doubt and History with Jill Lepore

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AMC Networks can’t compete with Netflix. CEO Josh Sapan is fine with that.

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Did the pandemic kill the Oscars?

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Apple and Facebook's ambitious audio plans

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Substack’s next target: Local news

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How Hollywood and the NBA are betting on NFTs

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WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on a wild first year on the job

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Media Merger Mania with Axios’ Dan Primack and WSJ’s Ben Mullin

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The rise and maybe fall of YouTube star David Dobrik; inside Facebook with the Markup’s Julia Angwin

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How Christina “Tinx” Najjar became a TikTok star overnight

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How did - and didn’t - the pandemic transform media?

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Fubo TV is a Reddit meme stock. CEO David Gandler has bigger ambitions.

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Have we hit peak streaming? + NYT’s Kevin Roose on his new book “Futureproof”

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Australia vs. Facebook; Al Madrigal means business about All Things Comedy

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Pandora founder Tim Westergren on the future of streaming

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New York Times CEO Meredith Levien on the future of news, and her newspaper

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How To Make An Influencer In America with Nick Bilton

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Andrew Ross Sorkin on Gamestop, Robinhood, Reddit and how to fix the system.

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How Jessica Lessin got people to pay for The Information

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Trump vs the Press - a final report card from Jay Rosen

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What the Capitol Riot tells us about online power

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Behind the making of The Dissident, the movie about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

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Zach Seward started Quartz, sold it, and bought it back. Now what?

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Kemp Powers spent years breaking into Hollywood — and his first film is Pixar’s Soul

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Trump is leaving; Trump media isn't

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Behind the scenes with Queen’s Gambit creator Scott Frank

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Eli Pariser wants to build a better Facebook

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Gimlet’s Lydia Polgreen wants to shake up podcasting

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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti explains his HuffPost deal

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ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish on Paramount+, Pluto TV