How to cover the Facebook leaks + SNL’s Heidi Gardner

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is handing over thousands of documents to reporters like The Verge’s Alex Heath. The next step: Sorting through all of those files, and figuring out how and when to write about them. Heath talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about the weeks of stories we’ll be reading in the future, and his first one - about Facebook’s rapidly aging user base. And then for something completely different: Saturday Night Live cast member Heidi Gardner joins to talk about her unlikely path into comedy, making live TV during Covid, and thinking about a life after SNL. Featuring: Alex Heath (@alexeheath), Senior Reporter for The Verge Heidi Garder (@heidilgardner), actress and comedian for Saturday Night Live Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:33.1	tis and see supply welcome to rica media peter kofka that is me i'm peter kofka i'm speaking to you
1:40.7	right now on this podcast i'm talking to alex for The Verge, who is one of the initial
1:46.6	parts of the Facebook Papers Consortium.
1:49.5	Those are the folks tirelessly turning reams of Facebook data, photos of monitors with
1:57.5	Facebook data, it turns out, into stories.
1:59.9	Alex has written one already. He'll be writing many more over the next few weeks. I wanted to talk to him about the story he wrote, it turns out. Into stories, Alex has written one already. He'll be writing
2:01.5	many more over the next few weeks. I wanted to talk to him about the story he wrote, which is about
2:05.0	Facebook's worry that it is losing all of its younger users, which is true. And also about the sort of
2:11.2	story behind the story, how the folks are getting the data, what they're doing with it, what's
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