Former NYT Producer on Groupthink in Journalism | Interview: Andy Mills

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The Dispatch

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4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Jamie is joined by Andy Mills—host of Reflector and a co-creator of the New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast—to discuss why he left seminary for journalism and what’s gone wrong inside American newsrooms. The Agenda: —Andy’s background —Why is everyone in New York? —Policing curiosity —The outsized power of young journalists —Take them seriously, not literally —Woke McCarthyism —The Twitterization of journalists —What makes a great podcast? Show Notes: —The Dispatch Podcast with A.G. Sulzberger —Andy Mills and Matthew Boll’s Reflector —The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling —Nellie Bowles' book —Tom Cotton's op-ed in the NYT —Adam Rubenstein's Chick-fil-A story The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and weekly livestreams—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.2	ek slash special offer welcome to the dispatch podcast I'm Jamie Weinstein my
0:30.3	guest today is Andy Mills.
0:33.4	Andy was one of the first producers hired by the New York Times
0:37.4	to help build their audio team and was part of the team that created the Daily Podcast,
0:43.2	the very highly popular New York Times podcast,
0:45.4	among others.
0:46.4	He ultimately would resign from that position
0:49.3	amid some controversy.
0:50.7	I encourage those who want to know more about that to go and listen to an
0:54.5	episode that he did with blocked and reported podcast. Suffice to say I think a lot of
0:59.8	the allegations around there were not worthy enough to have Andy resign over at least the ones that I have read but that is not the topic of a conversation that we get into today.
1:09.7	Andy would go on to work and make the podcast the witch trials of JK
1:14.0	Rowling that was done by the free press and he is debuting a new
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