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Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large at Recode. You may know me as the person who keeps sending

pictures of my cat to Nat Geo, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening

to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today I'm in Washington, DC and I'm joined

by three executives from Nat Geo. Courtney Monroe, the CEO of National Geographic Global

Networks, Rachel Weber, who leads the digital product team. Susan Goldberg, the Editor-in-Chief

of the National Geographic magazine, it was how a lot of people think of National Geographic.

Everyone welcome to Recode Decode. I'm thrilled to have you here. Thanks for having us.

I want to talk about a lot of things and I'm thrilled that I'm sorry to point out, but I'm

talking to three incredibly powerful women, which is great and I'm glad you're running the show

at National Geographic. Nat Geo, right? Is that how we call it? Whatever you want to call it.

I want to get into how you run a global brand like this because it's critical that you have all

parts of what's going on and how you think about publishing and information you get.

So why don't we just, I want to do one to talk, I like to get people's background just

really briefly because I think it's really helpful to people, how people get to where they got.

So Susan, why don't you start? Because you're like me, you're from an old newspaper background

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