Recode Decode: HuffPost editor in chief Lydia Polgreen (Live at Code Media 2018)

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Lydia Polgreen, the editor in chief of HuffPost — the website formerly known as The Huffington Post — talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka at the 2018 Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif. Polgreen explains what she has been changing since taking over the top editor role in December 2016, how she's trying to reach a broader audience that includes Donald Trump supporters and why HuffPost is investing less in Facebook than it used to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode coming to you from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:37.5	Hi I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:40.2	You're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's key players, big ideas
0:44.2	and how they're changing the world we live in.
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0:56.3	Today, we're going to play an interview Peter Kafka and I conducted at the 2018 Code Media
1:02.0	Conference.
1:03.0	Let's take a listen.
1:04.0	It's great to be here.
1:07.0	I mean look, I know that last year you had Hillary Clinton hard to top that, but I'm,
1:13.1	you know, luckily I was available.
1:15.0	Covefethy?
1:16.0	Covefethy.
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