Reporter Roundtable: Discussing Media Narratives and Tech Industry Attacks On The Press

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When the Big Technology Podcast debuted last month, The Verge’s Casey Newton joined to talk about why people can’t stand the tech press. Our wide-ranging discussion explored how tech reporters should be more upfront about their values, how algorithms and social media reframe their work, and why some go astray in the quest for retweets. But there was more to discuss. This week, three talented reporters—Bloomberg’s Eric Newcomer, the Financial Times’ Hannah Murphy, and OneZero’s Brian Merchant—join the show to pick up where Newton left off.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kwame Christian, CEO of the American Negotiation Institute, and I have a quick question for you.
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0:28.3	making negotiate anything part of your daily routine. Hannah? Hi. Yeah. Hey, what's up? We finally got
0:36.8	you on. Eric. Hey, how's it going? Good. Brian, what's up? We finally got you on. Eric.
0:38.3	Hey, how's it going?
0:39.3	Good.
0:40.3	Brian, are you there?
0:41.3	I am.
0:42.3	Hello.
0:43.3	Okay, great.
0:44.3	Let's get going.
0:45.3	I'll just roll the music. Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for calm, cool-headed and nuanced
1:03.8	conversation about the tech world, much less yelling than you get elsewhere.
1:07.7	It's our new tagline.
1:08.7	We're going to roll with it in the beginning.
1:10.2	This is Alex Cantoritz joining us today. Our three incredible reporters slash editors.
1:16.5	We have Hannah Murphy from Financial Times, Eric Newcomer from Bloomberg,
1:22.2	and Brian Merchant from One Zero. You know, one of the things we like to do on this podcast
1:26.9	is start conversations
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