E236 - The Decline of Newsrooms w/ Borzou Daragahi

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads. Journalist Borzou Daragahi joins Danny and Derek to talk about the end of international journalism as we know it. They talk about how podcasting and alternative media both depend on and undermine legacy reporting, the economic pressures on foreign desks, the shift to commentary and “quick takes”, the limits of newsletters and Substack as newsroom replacements; the role of tech in accelerating these changes, and more. Read Borzou’s piece “Your Podcast Leaches Off My News Outlet.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	It's Derek, joined as always by my friend and comrade, Danny Bessner, and we are very pleased to welcome to the program, Borzu Daragahi.
1:12.6	He is a longtime foreign correspondent, writer of the newsletter Badlands at Borzu.
1:17.1	com.
1:18.4	We'll have a link to that in the show description.
1:20.4	Borsu, thank you so much for coming on the program.
1:22.5	It's my pleasure.
1:23.2	Thank you.
1:24.2	So I wanted to talk to you.
1:26.8	We wanted to talk to you about the death of journalism.
1:31.2	Basically, I don't want to be more of it about it, but death of international journalism, at least.
1:35.7	You wrote a piece for your substack that really resonated with me.
1:40.3	Your podcast leeches off my news outlet.
1:43.3	We will also have a link directly to that piece
1:45.5	in the show description. But it put me in mind of something. We did an interview a few months ago
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