Will Trump still dominate the news in 2018?

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🗓️ 4 January 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Washington Post Media Reporter Sarah Ellison and New York Times Media Columnist Jim Rutenberg talk with Recode's Peter Kafka about what the media got right and got wrong in 2017. Ellison says readers' interest in all things Trump, known as the "Trump bump," may be waning, so now is the time for journalists to figure out what comes next. Rutenberg agrees that more focus is needed, but says last year was the best for the media in his 25-year career. They also talk about what stories are currently under-covered in the media world, the challenges of balancing writing with investigative reporting and why the Harvey Weinstein scandal seems to have contributed more to the #MeToo movement than the oustings of Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes earlier in the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That's me. I am part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm saying these words from memory. I don't hear a script. To people who do not need scripts because they're awesome media reporters. Sarah Ellison, formerly of Vanity Fair, now at Washington Post. Jim Rutenberg, New York Times are joining us in studio. Welcome, guys. Hi. Thanks for having us. Thanks for coming. This is Jim's second visit, but the first time in person. He joined us for a brief cameo over the phone. inaugural in-person visit. I said, I promised we'll bring you in studio before the end of the year. And it's beautiful and a great colleague here. Yeah, we talked about Russia. Oh, of course. We did. They better slow down.
1:15.4	It's going to be this kind of podcast.
1:16.6	It's a year-end podcast.
1:20.8	We're going to talk about what happened in 2017 because some stuff happened, look ahead a little bit.
1:25.8	I was trying to figure out what the story of the year was besides Donald Trump.
1:28.7	But that seems a bit like a fool's era. It seems like Donald Trump swamped the media landscape and everything else that we talk about is still
1:32.9	related to Donald Trump. I mean, I think you could say Harvey was another really big story
1:38.3	and of sort of a media story. Yeah, and we can kind of link the two, right? There's a theory
1:43.5	I think you've written about. Other people read it said the Harvey Weinstein story has come out of a media story. Yeah, and we can kind of link the two, right? There's a theory I think you've written about, other people read.
1:46.0	The Harvey Weinstein story has come out of, in part, a reaction to Donald Trump.
1:50.0	Let's save that big thought.
1:51.0	Okay.
1:52.0	Besides Trump, I was thinking about media consolidation, which we can also tether to Trump,
1:58.0	right?
1:59.0	Facebook, obvious Trump angles there. So we could spend the entire
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