How Johnny Harris Changed The News Forever

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

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4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Try Airalo and use code COLIN&SAMIR3 for $3 off your first eSIM https://try.airalo.com/ColinSamir On this episode of The Colin and Samir Show, we sit down with Johnny and Iz Harris to talk about the future of news on YouTube. Johnny and Iz explain their mission to provide context-driven news with their company New Press, the evolution of Johnny's YouTube channel, and the business model for journalism on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I could see exactly like the dark color scheme of the map.
0:03.6	I could see the thin lines connecting.
0:05.6	And I was like, done.
0:07.2	Like, yes.
0:07.9	The thing about news is actually the same thing about YouTube.
0:11.0	They have to be home runs every single time.
0:12.9	Is it click bait or click worthy?
0:14.8	Is advertising the right model for this?
0:16.4	Boy, that's a big number.
0:17.7	That's way more than a normal brand.
0:19.8	We did get called out at one point.
0:21.2	It almost made me confused and angry. And that is a travesty. That's a failing of our information
0:25.6	ecosystem. Don't think it's sustainable. It would get 100 million views per season. And then one day,
0:31.9	gone. Decided she didn't want to do it anymore.
0:39.9	Today on the Colin and and Smyr Show,
0:41.3	we're joined by Johnny and is Harris.
0:43.7	These are just two of my all-time favorite people.
0:47.4	We could have talked to them for five hours.
0:49.8	So if you're not familiar with Johnny Harris,
0:51.1	he's a creator, filmmaker, storyteller
0:52.9	with over 6.4 million
0:55.0	subscribers on YouTube. And he spent some time creating with Vox and was most known for his show
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