Recode Decode: The ups and downs of Reddit's history

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Inc. magazine senior writer Christine Lagorio-Chafkin talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Reco.
0:52.0	You may know me as the founder of a site where you can share and vote on tech exec screw ups.
0:57.0	It's called Blu-it. But in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Reco Decode on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:03.0	Today in the red chair is Christine Lugario Chafkin, a senior writer for Inc. Magazine.
1:08.0	She's also the author of a new book We Are the Nurs, The Birth and Tamultuous Life of Reddit,
1:13.0	the Internet's cultural laboratory. I often call it a cesspool.
1:17.0	Chris, I'm trying to say it is. Welcome to Reco Decode. Thank you for having me.
1:21.0	I want to get a little bit about you back. I always get people's back, so I don't know where they're coming from.
1:25.0	How you got to do this book. Let's talk about that a little bit. What got you to this moment?
1:29.0	Well, when I graduated college in Wisconsin, I moved out to Washington DC, started reporting on politics,
1:36.0	and got kind of sick of just only being around lawyers and lobbyists and politicians.
1:39.0	So moved to New York for an internship at the Nullies. So you cover just regular politics?
1:43.0	Yeah, congressional politics. And moved to New York for an internship at the Village Voice,
1:47.0	where I was really fortunate to work for Wayne Barrett, who was an incredible investigative reporter who we lost last year.
1:53.0	And you know, from there, I sort of worked on a book with him, I went to CBS News,
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