Coming soon: The Times Tech Podcast with Danny and Katie

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Danny Fortson in California - 'Danny in the Valley' - joins Katie Prescott in London to talk to the people changing tech across the world. As The Sunday Times’ West Coast Correspondent, Danny Fortson has witnessed first hand the technological whirlwind coming from Silicon Valley. Katie as Technology Business Editor at The Times has reported on how digital technology is transforming businesses and society around the world. Now ‘Danny in the Valley’ meets ‘Katie in the City’ - with a podcast presented from San Francisco and London. Each week sees a fresh interview with pioneers in tech from the brightest start-ups to the tech giants as they chronicle the AI revolution. Sounds good, but what will it sound like? Here's a taste.

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0:00.0	I am Danny Fordson and now we have a brand new podcast, the Times Tech podcast, where Danny in the Valley meets...
0:09.6	Me, Katie Prescott sitting here in London, Katie in the City of London.
0:14.5	Danny in the Valley meets Katie in the City. Welcome to the Times Tech podcast.
0:19.9	Hello and thanks for listening.
0:25.4	So, Katie, you are the technology business editor of the Times, and I would imagine your work is full on.
0:32.3	Doesn't stop on a daily paper.
0:34.7	You're right.
0:35.5	You may remember those days with deadlines every afternoon.
0:39.0	Yeah, there's a lot of stories to write and tech and media and telcos fall to me.
0:46.5	Just a really small universe. I just about scrape the surface of it. But yes, it's amazing.
0:53.7	I mean, when I look back at the last couple of
0:55.2	of years of doing this job, Elon Musk bought Twitter on my first day. On your first day?
1:00.7	My first day, I had to write, and I'd come from the BBC, so I didn't know what the terminology
1:05.4	was at newspapers. And my boss asked me to write The Splash, which for other people who don't
1:10.6	work in newspapers,
1:11.4	is the main headline story.
1:13.3	Yeah.
1:13.8	But for my purposes on that day, it just meant I had to generate 650 words on Elon Musk.
1:19.0	So that was terrifying.
1:19.6	And do it quickly and make it totally unique from what everybody else is writing and go.
1:34.6	I actually pitched this job to the paper.
1:35.5	It didn't exist.
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