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Big Technology Podcast

Can The Media Fix Its Trust Problem? β€” With Nicholas Thompson

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 β€’ 395 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Nicholas Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of Wired. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a nuanced conversation about why the media is losing the public's trust and whether it has a chance to regain it. Listen for a wide-ranging discussion on business models, politics, and the tech press's relationship with the industry's builders.

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0:25.6

Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool, headed, nuanced conversation

0:39.6

of the tech world and beyond.

0:41.7

And this is the fourth in our series of podcasts coming to you from Davos.

0:46.9

And we are here in collaboration with Web3 Foundation and unfinished.

0:51.7

Our guest today is someone I'm really excited to get a chance to speak with.

0:55.7

Nick Thompson is the CEO of the Atlantic. We're going to speak about trust in media, the economy

1:00.8

at large, and then maybe how his fitness routine is going. I always see him running in Brooklyn.

1:05.8

Nick, welcome to the show. Thanks, Alex. Yeah, I'm going to talk to you about trust in media and maybe we'll talk a little bit about the Brooklyn bubble.

1:11.6

But I really don't.

1:12.7

There's, you know, I can't throw too many daggers because I see you running by while I'm eating donuts.

1:17.7

So we're in the same media bubble out there.

1:21.0

But I'm really glad to have a chance to speak with you.

1:23.2

Yeah, it's great to talk with you.

1:24.0

Thanks, you're inviting me on. So let's start with trust to me. I mean, it's really at an all-time low. Every, every poll I look at shows how it's dropped

1:33.2

even further and further. I didn't really know there was further that it could go down, but it

1:37.4

keeps, keeps going. You've worked on the editorial side. Now you're on the business side of

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