Slate Money - Media Media
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Edmund Lee, media journalist for The New York Times, joins the Slate Money hosts to discuss the demented rollercoaster that is Tesla stock, The New York Times’ surprising subscription numbers and the revenue of Youtube and other social media sites.
Plus: Spotify buying The Ringer.
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the media media edition of Slate Money or guide to the business and finance news |
| 0:19.4 | of what was a very busy week. |
| 0:23.4 | I am Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm joined by Emily Peck of Huffpost. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm joined by Anna Shamansky, our breaking views. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello. |
| 0:31.5 | And because we love him so much, we have the best person coming back to join us. |
| 0:36.4 | Ed Lee from the New York Times. |
| 0:38.4 | The media media, media reporter. Ed covers all things media at the times and is here to talk to |
| 0:47.3 | us about Spotify in the plus segment, also about the New York Times itself. He's getting very |
| 0:53.3 | navel-gazazy in this particular issue. |
| 0:55.3 | As media reporters are wanted to do. We're going to talk about Instagram. We're going to talk |
| 0:59.8 | about YouTube, lots of media content this week, but also, of course, Tesla content. Because |
| 1:08.2 | What's going on with Tesla? If you want to know whether to buy Tesla stock, you can do two things. |
| 1:12.8 | You can either just Google should I buy Tesla stock or you can listen to Slate Money. |
| 1:16.5 | We will answer that question for you coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:22.1 | So this is the segment where we talk about Google searches. |
| 1:26.6 | I have my Google app and we have all tried this with various degrees of logged in and anonymous and WhatsApp browsing. |
| 1:33.5 | For me, when I type should I buy into Google, the first autofil is, should I buy Tesla stock? |
| 1:40.2 | And then it's followed by should I buy Apple stock and should I buy Bitcoin. |
| 1:44.0 | So I get, I all have to type is should. And I get should I buy Apple stock and should I buy Bitcoin. So I get, I all have to type is should. |
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