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Stop Press
Hosted by Newslaundry · EN
A podcast about the news ecosystem and its intersection with big tech.
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NL Conversation: Amit Varma on being a longform podcaster in an age of five-minute attention spans
Jul 14, 202201:00:00Tap to summarizeIn this episode of NL Recess, writer and host of the podcast The Seen and the Unseen Amit Varma joins Chitranshu Tewari to talk about evolving media cultures and patterns in the digital space, the binaries of “bhakts” and “wakes”, and the difficult bracketing of Indian conservatism.
Transcribe →NL Conversations: Vanita Kohli-Khandekar on business of news media, the need for not-for-profit journalism
Jul 14, 202200:40:01Tap to summarizeVanita Kohli-Khandekar is a journalist and author, whose book The Indian Media Business: Pandemic and After was released in October this year. In this interview with Chitranshu Tewari, Vanita explains the relationship between how broadcast media makes media and what the audience gets to see, the business economics of ad-funded media, and the lack of government foresight in seeing media as an industry.
Transcribe →NL Conversation: Sophie Zhang on what it took to become a Facebook whistleblower
Jul 14, 202200:49:07Tap to summarizeSophie Zhang is a former data scientist at Facebook, now Meta, who published a series of articles in the Guardian on the social media platform’s fake engagement accounts. She alleged these often lead to interference in political elections.In this interview with Chitranshu Tewari, Sophie describes the suspicious patterns of behavior she observed in 2019 with respect to India. On the company’s reluctance to act on matters involving fake accounts in India, she points at “political pressure and the general lack of motivation of the company to police its own system”.
Transcribe →NL Conversation: Gautam Mishra on creating the Spotify for news, regulating big tech, and paywalls
Jul 14, 202200:54:10Tap to summarizeCheck out Stop Press and subscribe at https://stoppress.substack.com/In the latest episode of NL Conversations, Newslaundry’s Chitranshu Tewari speaks to Gautam Mishra, joining in from Melbourne. Gautam is the founder and chief executive officer of Inkl, a bundle news subscription platform that unlocks coverage from premium publishers like the New York Times and the Economist with a monthly subscription of just Rs 250. Talking about the upsurge in demand for bundle news subscriptions, Gautam speaks at length about the longevity and breadth of news in 2020. “Twenty years ago if you were from Delhi, it was fine for you to mostly concentrate on news from Delhi, but today you cannot do that,” he points out.He adds: “If you want to know what’s happening with Brexit, you would want to know it from the Brits. If you want to understand what’s happening in Hong Kong, you actually need to get it from the South China Morning Post.”Defending Facebook and Twitter on being unable to police “fake news”, Gautam says, “Facebook and Twitter are open networks and anytime you have an open network, that, by definition...means anybody can publish anything.” He says the Australian Competition Commission’s decision to make big tech pay directly to the publishers is “completely ridiculous and nonsense”. “When somebody has cancer, you can’t just cure it by giving a band-aid,” he says.Tune in!
Transcribe →NL Conversation: Lakshmi Chaudhry on news fatigue, newsletters, and news as an experience
Jul 14, 202200:41:12Tap to summarizeThe news media, like most spaces, has a big blind spot when it comes to the representation of women, even as they bear the brunt of the negative impact of the information explosion. How and why is it so? What can be done to rectify the situation. To discuss these questions, Chitranshu Tewari spoke with Lakshmi Chaudhry, the founder of Splainer Media and the co-founder of Firstpost. She talks about her journey launching Splainer, how news is an exclusionary space for women on both the publication and the reader side, and why news needs to be conceptualised as an experience to begin with. She also talks about the overabundance of news causing "news fatigue", and how the comeback of newsletters is a response to this phenomenon.Subscribe to Splainer: https://splainer.in/subscribeSign up for Stop Press: https://bit.ly/StopPressNewsletterTune in.
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