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This is Recode Media from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Stephen Pearlberg. I'm in for Peter Kafka.

I'm a media and politics reporter at BuzzFeed News,

and I'm here in the Vox Media Studios today in New York City.

Let me first say something that Peter usually says,

which I'm sure you're all familiar with. Please tell someone else about this show. Thank you very much. So today I'm really excited to be in the studio with Matt Taibi. He's a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. He's the author of several books. He's the author of a new book called The Fairway that he's releasing as an email newsletter. It's a very 2018 way to release a book. Matt, welcome to Recode Media. Thanks very much for having me. So lots of talk about, seeing as this is a podcast that focuses on the business of media, I wanted to start with your new project. You're releasing a book and some of your writings on Substack. For our listeners who aren't familiar with that platform, what is

Substack and why did you start working with them? It's an email subscription site where there's

all sorts of content, lots of different kinds of writers who are essentially sending out

emails of content on a regular basis. And when I was approached to do this, the only room in

my contract at Rolling Stone that wasn't covered was books. So I thought that it would be really

interesting to do something that I've always wanted to do, which was, you know, serialized books,

try that out. And I think in the Internet was, you know, serialized books, try that out. And I think in the Internet age,

you know, it may be a new way for people to experiment with different kinds of content

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