Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?

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Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Noah Shachtman, the editor in chief of the Daily Beast, talks with BuzzFeed's Steven Perlberg about taking over that job in May and how he's thinking about the "gonzo" site's place in the media landscape. In this episode: (01:07) How The Daily Beast fits into the media ecosystem; (04:55) How the rest of the media is handling the Trump moment; (08:25) Access journalism and Axios; (11:42) Being opinionated on Twitter; (13:51) How should outlets respond to bad-faith attacks?; (17:04) Social media policies; (19:30) Facebook's algorithm tweaks; (22:51) Running the Daily Beast and optioning stories to Hollywood; (24:50) Beast Inside and being owned by Barry Diller; (26:58) Covering political campaigns and why "next year may be the craziest year yet"; (29:31) The "gonzo spirit" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.2	This is Recode Media from Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Stephen Pearlberg. I'm in for Peter
0:45.5	Kafka. I'm a media and politics reporter at BuzzFeed News, but I'm here at Vox Media Studios today in
0:50.6	New York City. Today I'm really excited to be back in the studio. You might have heard my interview with Matt Taibi a couple weeks back. This week, I'm here with Noah Shackman, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. Noah, welcome to Recode Media.
1:01.5	Hey.
1:02.0	So, The Daily Beast just celebrated its 10-year anniversary, Mazel Tov.
1:06.4	Thank you.
1:07.1	Our listeners probably know the Beast from its mix of reporting on everything from politics
1:12.1	to the national security, White House, pop culture.
1:15.2	I wanted to start with, you know my boss over at BuzzFeed News, Ben Smith, and I was telling
1:20.7	him that I was coming to interview you.
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