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Fox and the New York Times face the end of the Trump era

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NY Mag's Olivia Nuzzi takes us inside Trumpworld, post Election Day

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Election 2020: What happens next?

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Why Zeynep Tufekci saw the pandemic coming - and what else she knows

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Google vs The U.S. Government

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ESPN’s Pablo Torre on balancing sports and politics

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Congress comes for big tech; Axios thrives in the pandemic

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Is big media bouncing back from the pandemic?

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Politico editor Carrie Budoff Brown on the challenge of covering 2020

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QAnon Explained with NBC's Ben Collins

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Ben Thompson explains TikTok, Trump and China

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Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman is building a media brand one newsletter at a time

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Baratunde Thurston wants to teach us how to be a good citizen

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NYT’s James Poniewozik on the virtual conventions; CNN’s Brian Stelter on Trump + Fox

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Why Desus & Mero are pandemic-proof

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NYT CEO Mark Thompson on subscriptions, platforms and internal Slack fights; IAC’s Joey Levin bets on betting.

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Kurt Andersen on the “Evil Geniuses” that got America into this mess

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Sports are back! But for how long?

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Why your favorite writers are taking their talents to Substack. Plus: Peacock!

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Hank Green on everything YouTube, Tik Tok, podcasting, and Montana

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How to run a newspaper in Hong Kong: South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu

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Why Fox bet $450 million on Tubi and free streaming

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How Netflix became a streaming giant

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W. Kamau Bell wants to help you understand racism

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Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez wants to make the Marvel of podcasts

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Conferences were a great business — before the pandemic

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Twitter, Trump, Facebook and George Floyd with NYT’s Charlie Warzel

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HBO Max is here!

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Meet the man who made Netflix’s most popular movie

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Joe Rogan takes his podcast to Spotify

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It’s Twitch’s Time: Talking live streaming with gamer Dr. Lupo and journalist Bijan Stephen

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How Tara Reade told her story

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Michael Jordan's Last Dance, with director Jason Hehir

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The man behind The Office brings you the future, on Amazon

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Matthew Ball on how the pandemic will remake TV, movies and video games

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How the Atlantic is thriving in the pandemic

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Jeffrey Katzenberg's $1.75 billion bet on Quibi

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TikTok, Facebook and podcasts respond to the pandemic

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Making people laugh during a pandemic, with Jon Lovett and Jon Gabrus

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How social media works - and doesn’t — during the pandemic

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Why the Coronavirus canceled the NBA, with ESPN’s Brian Windhorst

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How streaming changed comedy with Vulture’s Jesse David Fox

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ViacomCBS gets into the streaming wars, too. Sort of.

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Food52’s surprising success story, with co-founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs

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Local news is dying. John Thornton wants to save it.

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Spotify, The Ringer and the future of podcasts

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How Netflix is changing The Oscars

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Why Ben Smith is leaving BuzzFeed for the New York Times

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BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti reboots his business plan

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NBC’s Peacock enters the Streaming Wars

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Anna Wiener on disillusionment with startup culture

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How The Safdie Bros. landed Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems

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Adam Davidson on how to thrive in this economy

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Streaming wars! (Don’t call them streaming wars!) and everything else we learned in 2019, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw

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Eat up! Food talk with The Infatuation’s Chris Stang and the New Yorker’s Helen Rosner

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Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc on the internet, TV and her famous founder

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The anatomy of a hit song, with Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding

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Roger Lynch’s plan to save Condé Nast

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DAZN's John Skipper and the future of streaming sports

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The men who want to remake Sports Illustrated: Maven’s James Heckman and Ross Levinsohn

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Carolyn Everson runs the Facebook ad machine

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John Stankey’s plan for HBO, HBO Max and WarnerMedia

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Meet the man behind Disney+: Live from Code Media with Kevin Mayer

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Scott Z. Burns on making movies with Amazon, Netflix & Steven Soderbergh

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Did Disney+ and Apple TV+ live up to the hype?

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What's next for The New York Times after The Daily?

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Matt Levine left Goldman to become a journalist. Great move!

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It's not HBO... It's HBO Max. Plus Steve Swartz, CEO of Hearst on turning a magazine publisher into a diversified media company

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How the Wu-Tang Clan raised Sophia Chang

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Introducing Reset: Can AI Teach You To Write Better?

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How The Athletic CEO Alex Mather convinced people to pay for sports news on the internet

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How Shea Serrano used the internet to become a best-selling author

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BuzzFeed News' Ben Smith on covering Trump and making money

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Complex CEO Rich Antoniello on running a youth culture media empire

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Vox Media + NY Media CEOs Jim Bankoff and Pamela Wasserstein go behind the deal

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Behind the scenes of the Brett Kavanaugh investigation with NYT's Kate Kelly

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Craiglist's Craig Newmark is using his power and money to save journalism

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How Survivor and The Sopranos created Trump, with New York Times critic James Poniewozik

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Apple TV+ is coming. Will you pay for it?

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The epic battle for Uber, with Mike Isaac from the New York Times

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The decline of the right wing troll with CNN’s Oliver Darcy

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Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley wants to know where you are

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The Sportswriter: The Ringer's Bryan Curtis on the sports-media-politics mash-up

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Taylor Lorenz on TikTok, Twitter … and Tumblr

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John Harris, co-founder of Politico

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Splice's Steve Martocci wants to remake the music business + All things Amazon with Recode's Jason Del Rey

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Chuck Klosterman on Trump, Twitter and cancel culture - and his new book

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Media mogul watch at Sun Valley with Dylan Byers + Erin Lee Carr on making true crime documentaries

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The Texas Tribune’s secret sauce, with Emily Ramshaw

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How Roger Ailes built Fox News - and how Gabriel Sherman turned Ailes’ story into a TV show

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Vimeo’s Anjali Sud shifted the company’s strategy — and became its CEO + The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson on the limits of the ‘attention economy’

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New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger at the Code Conference

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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at the Code Conference

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Matthew Ball on Amazon vs Apple vs Netflix vs Disney, and how he built a digital media career by writing for free

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ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro on how he’s reshaping the network

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YouTube’s Neal Mohan is trying to police the world’s largest video site + Game of Thrones is gone. What’s next?

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Eugene Wei explains why we’re all ‘status monkeys’ on social media

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Nick Hornby on writing for TV, 10 minutes at a time

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Game of Thrones is down to its last dragon + Hulu CEO Randy Freer

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Digital media pioneer Jason Hirschhorn on Netflix vs. Everyone Else