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Decoder with Nilay Patel

Recode Decode: CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.33.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

CNN.com editor in chief Meredith Artley talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about overseeing some of the most popular news sites on the internet and how things may change in 2019. In this episode: Artley's background at the New York Times and International Herald Tribune; the "complete chaos" of working at the Los Angeles Times; what actually works in digital news?; How CNN has changed its approach to covering President Trump's tweets; its relationships with social media companies; what it's like working under Trump's "enemy of the people" attacks; the speed of news; and how to earn the public's trust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:17.0

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0:24.0

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0:32.0

How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief second life, and then was buried for good.

0:42.0

Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.

0:47.0

Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Recode.

0:53.0

You may know me as someone who likes CNN a little better, just because Donald Trump hates it, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

1:02.0

Today in the red chair is Meredith Artley, the Editor-in-Chief of CNN.com and the Senior Vice President of CNN Digital Worldwide.

1:10.0

That's a big title, Meredith.

1:11.0

Previously she worked at the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times.

1:15.0

Meredith, welcome to Recode decode.

1:17.0

Thanks for having me.

1:18.0

I'm sorry, I was late today because I lost my phone of all things and I feel terrible.

1:22.0

I've had Meredith waiting. It's tragic. It's tragic moment for Cara Swisher. I can tell you that since I'm married to my phone.

1:27.0

It's the best relationship I've ever had.

1:29.0

In any case, I'm here because I'm really interested in what's going on at CNN and a lot of the different large websites.

1:37.0

I want to go into your back and you wrote me a really fantastic email about where news is going digitally.

1:45.0

And obviously so much news now is digital period, the whole business' decision.

1:50.0

I want to talk a little bit about your background, how you got to where you got.

1:54.0

People don't know that CNN is the largest purveyor of news on the planet. Is that correct?

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