Recode Decode: Michael Barbaro, host of the New York Times podcast The Daily (Live)

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Michael Barbaro, who hosts the hit podcast The Daily for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Barbaro explains why he fell in love with newspapers at a young age, how he got into journalism and how he transitioned from being a political reporter to a self-described audio "geek." He discusses what happens behind the scenes every day at the show and why, in the edited interviews, he sometimes can be heard taking long ... pauses. Plus: How The Daily staff decides what goes on the air, why Barbaro doesn't read the ads on his show and why he's not interested in talking about Donald Trump's tweets on the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.5	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large at ReCoDecode.
0:35.6	You may know me as Michael Barbaro's arch nemesis, but in my spare time, I talk tech and you're
0:40.2	listening to ReCoDecode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:43.8	Today, we're going to play an interview I conducted at the 92nd Street Y in New York City
0:47.9	called the Age of Podcast Journalism with Michael Barbaro, who is the host of the New
0:53.4	York Times popular podcast The Daily.
0:56.3	This was an event put on by XYZ, which is a new free membership group for forward thinking
1:01.3	individuals in generations X, Y and Z that the 92nd Street Y launched in March.
1:07.4	I don't know what one of those I'm in.
1:08.7	I may be in part of X, not definitely not in I have children in Z.
1:12.2	But anyway, XYZ puts you up close and personal with the people, ideas and conversations
1:17.6	and performances shaping culture.
1:20.0	There are some great upcoming guests, such as Pod Save America's Dan Fyfer, the former
1:25.1	White House director of communications under President Obama, who will talk with
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