The Death of Journalistic Swagger, Apple Is Crushing It, ‘The Office’ For Newspapers, and "The Revenge of the Homepage" With Julia Turner

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Hello media consumers! On the Final Edition, Bryan is joined by Julia Turner—one of the hosts of Slate's Culture Gabfest! They get into the following topics: Jack Shafer’s story in Politico about “journalistic swagger” (1:20). Ben Smith of Semafor’s interview with New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn regarding the 2024 election (20:26) The Apple ad about the new thin iPad (32:56) An ‘Office’ spinoff, but for a newspaper company (35:26) Reggie Miller has learned something from Bryan and other podcasters (40:00) Kyle Chayka's, of The New Yorker, story: "The Revenge of the Home Page" (42:59) Then, David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline.Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Julia Turner Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Join me Danny Kelly along with Danny Hyfeits and Craig Horrell back every week on the Ringer Fantasy Football show as we prepare for the 2024 Fantasy Football season.
0:10.0	We'll cover all the biggest news and topics across the league as well as whatever weird topics our listeners email us about.
0:15.6	That's the Ringer Fantasy Football Show on Spotify.
0:20.6	Hello media consumers, welcome to Press Box.
0:24.0	Brian Curtis of the Ringer here along with producer Brian Waters.
0:28.2	Coming up on the pod, has journalism lost its swagger?
0:31.5	And if so, where do we leave it? Should the New York Times try to stop
0:34.7	Donald Trump from winning the election? Plus, Apple wants to smash your creative tools.
0:40.5	A podcast cliche is creeping into broadcasting.
0:44.0	There's a journalistic spin-off of the office coming,
0:47.6	and home pages are, dare I say, having a moment.
0:51.8	All of this with today's guest host.
0:53.4	She is Julia Turner,
0:55.3	one of the hosts of the Slate Culture Gavfest,
0:58.5	a senior fellow at USC's Annenberg Center.
1:01.6	At Slate, she has been the editor. At the LA Time she has been many
1:05.2	things including Senior Vice President for Content Business Strategy. She's also
1:10.0	been my pal for 20-plus years Julia, welcome to the press box.
1:14.0	Brian, what a treat to be here.
1:16.0	I'm so excited.
1:17.0	Such a treat.
1:18.0	Can we start by talking about Swagger?
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