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1 week ago | 
semafor.com | Ben Smith |Max Tani
Listen to the latest episode of Mixed Signals here. The New York Times has weathered incredible changes in the media industry throughout its 174 years – and it’s managed to stay on top through the recent shift to digital, topping podcast charts and becoming a daily app for games and cooking.
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2 weeks ago | 
semafor.com | Ben Smith |Max Tani
Listen to the latest episode of Mixed Signals here. Cleo Abram left Vox and started her YouTube show, Huge If True, three years ago. Since then, the channel has grown to nearly 6 million subscribers and she’s become one of the most important tech journalists in the world.
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2 weeks ago | 
semafor.com | Ben Smith |Max Tani
One of the media industry’s great blood feuds could be headed for détente, as the United Talent Agency and the advertising dealmaker Michael Kassan appear close to reaching a settlement that could be announced in time for the annual Cannes Lions festival later this month.
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2 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | Ben Smith |Max Tani
One of the media industry’s great blood feuds could be headed for détente, as the United Talent Agency and the advertising dealmaker Michael Kassan appear close to reaching a settlement that could be announced in time for the annual Cannes Lions festival later this month.
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3 weeks ago | 
semafor.com | Ben Smith |Max Tani
Listen to the latest episode of Mixed Signals here. Top Chef, which is airing its 22nd season finale next week, has been shaping how we think and talk about food for the past two decades. This week, Ben and Max talk to Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons, longtime judges since the first season, about how the show influenced the restaurant industry, how food media has changed, and why the show has gotten nicer over the years. And – they also share the social media food trends they hate the most.
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4 weeks ago | 
semafor.com | Ben Smith |Max Tani
Listen to the latest episode of Mixed Signals here. Adam Friedland represents a new kind of comedian—one who rose up through podcasting and now hosts a late night-style weekly interview show… on YouTube. This week, Ben and Max bring on the comedian to talk about why he’s reviving a 1960s Dick Cavett-style talk show for the Internet, if podcasts have become too dumb, and whether he’s the long anticipated Joe Rogan of the left.
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1 month ago | 
semafor.com | Ben Smith |Max Tani
The libertarian journalist Michael Moynihan felt the shift on election night 2024, after it had become clear that Donald Trump would win. He was co-hosting a livestream for The Free Press, a new publication that had boomed in response to The New York Times’s leftward turn, and was ranting about the dangers Trump would pose to free speech to an impassive group of anti-woke talkers.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Ben Smith |Max Tani
NowTopless trans folks protest outside Downing Street in ‘deeply symbolic act’Trans folks went topless outside Downing Street during a protest calling out the oppression of the community across the UK.
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1 month ago | 
semafor.com | Ben Smith |Max Tani
Listen to the latest episode of Mixed Signals here. Christiane Amanpour has been on the front lines of global media since the 80s, while her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin, held top State Department jobs in the Clinton and Biden administrations. Now, with Jamie freshly out of the White House, they’ve come back together to make a podcast.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Max Tani |Liz Hoffman
6 hours agoFormer US President Joe Biden, 82, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, a statement from his office said on Sunday. Biden, who left office in January, was diagnosed on Friday after he saw a doctor last week for urinary symptoms. The cancer is a more aggressive form of …
