How to Make Sense of the Media, With Jill Abramson

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🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week on the Upgrade, we spoke in front of a live audience at On Air Fest with journalist Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the New York Times, and the co-author of Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. We covered a wide range of topics, including: how journalists are affected by social media, how to keep up to date with the news while maintaining your sanity, and where the “Me Too” movement is (or should be) taking us. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:17.4	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. Pause for applause break.
0:23.7	And I'm Alice Bradley, deputy editor of Lifehacker.
0:27.4	Yay.
0:28.3	Great and great. And we're live today at On AirFest in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It's our first live
0:34.1	show. Yeah, we're live. It's all new. It's all different. This is very different.
0:37.4	You don't know what's going to happen.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:39.9	Literally anything could happen.
0:41.5	Well, basically, something has already happened, which is that we're letting Levi sit in.
0:45.0	We're letting our producers sit with us.
0:46.7	Yeah.
0:47.2	Normally, we have to have glass between us.
0:49.1	Yes.
0:49.5	Now he's here. So this is already very weird. So Levi, watch yourself. At LifeHacker, we tell you how to make your life better. More and more these days, we find ourselves explaining the news. What it means to make people's lives better right now is to help them understand their world. Yeah, in fact, some people have said that we are becoming too political and that we should stick with hacks like how to open a jar and not political topics,
1:12.9	like how to stop gun violence.
1:15.1	But in this kind of this day and age, the question we're asking ourselves more and more
1:18.9	is how do you not be political in this time?
1:22.0	So here to talk with us about all of this is journalist, author, and Professor Jill Abramson.
1:30.5	Jill is best- as the first female executive editor of the New York Times, a position
1:34.8	she held from 2011 to 2014.
1:37.5	She was also the first female Washington Bureau Chief and managing editor at the Times.
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