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When Tech Journalism Took A Critical Turn

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, April Glaser catches up with her former co-host Will Oremus. Then the two of them are joined by Future Tense editor Torie Bosch and New York Times opinion writer Farhad Manjoo to discuss why tech journalism has become far more critical in recent years.

Plus, April and Will discuss futuristic science fiction scenarios on this week’s edition of Don’t Close My Tabs. 


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0:00.0

Welcome to If Then. The show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. I'm April Glazer.

0:06.3

And I'm Will Aramis.

0:12.2

Yay, Will. Hi, everyone. Welcome to If Then. We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America.

0:22.2

We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 25th.

0:25.9

And first and very foremost, I want to welcome my former co-host, Will Orrimis.

0:31.0

It's so nice to have him back.

0:32.4

He's now a senior writer for One Zero, which is an imprint or section of Medium.

0:37.2

And he's been doing great work there.

0:38.9

And Will is joining us once more. Thank you so much for coming on, Will.

0:43.7

April, thanks for having me back. I'm happy to be here. Your guest hosts since I left the show

0:48.0

have been so good that I'm actually feel kind of honored just to be one of those guest hosts.

0:52.8

Thank you for having me. I'm flattered. Whatever. You're like so, your humbleness is like such a signature part of you. It's great to have that back too.

1:01.9

And it has been fun to have guest hosts, but I have missed you. And I also want to share some news.

1:06.6

For folks who have been listening to the show, we've been doing it now for like well over a year, almost two years.

1:12.2

I want to thank you all for listening.

1:14.2

This will be my last show for the foreseeable future.

1:17.9

Filling in from here on out for the next few months will be a rotating cast of amazing slatesters who will be interviewing all kinds of interesting folks, keeping up on the latest tech news.

1:30.1

I really recommend that you continue to listen in.

1:32.9

And I will miss hearing from listeners.

1:35.2

You can still keep in touch with Will and I, if you don't already follow us on Twitter or send us emails, complaints.

1:42.2

It's been a lot of fun interacting with everybody.

1:44.0

And that's why I wanted

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