Ronan Farrow: “We are living in a post-privacy age”

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ronan Farrow’s latest investigative work for The New Yorker looks into the surveillance technology Pegasus — spyware that gives remote access to a smartphone’s camera, microphone, and contents. Be sure to power your phone completely off after you listen to the episode; Farrow will tell you why. Recode’s Peter Kafka also asks Farrow about his career — what it’s like to have his work put under a microscope, the impact of his Pulitzer-winning reporting on Harvey Weinstein, and what he doesn’t miss about working on cable news. Featuring: Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow), Investigative Reporter at the New Yorker Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.2	Welcome to Recode Media of Peter Kafka.
1:07.6	That is me.
1:09.0	Today I'm talking to one of the most high profile and highly praised
1:11.9	journalist of our time. That's Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker, who as you know shared the
1:17.4	Pulitzer Prize for his work exposing Harvey Weinstein's abuses. This is a wide-ranging conversation
1:22.8	about his work, how he was about doing it, the limits of TV journalism compared to the investigations
1:27.8	he does for The New Yorker now and a lot more.
1:30.9	But first, we spent a bit of time talking about his most recent piece for the magazine,
1:34.5	about the very big and very worrisome industry dedicated to hacking your cell phone.
1:40.1	This is not strictly a media topic, but it is one that's relevant to anyone who uses a phone,
1:44.6	and that's you, and you're probably using your phone right now at this very moment. And also, since we're here, this week I wrote about Netflix, and it's stunning about face on ads, as in it's going to have an ad-supported version of Netflix, even though Netflix has spent us years telling us that Netflix is a better product because it doesn't have ads.
2:02.1	And what that turnaround tells you with the state of streaming in general. even though Netflix has spent us years telling us that Netflix is a better product because it doesn't
2:01.0	have ads. And what that turnaround tells us with the state of streaming in general and why streaming
2:05.8	TV ads remain surprisingly crummy. So you could go read that on Vox.com. It's free just like this
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