Rupert Murdoch has learned his lesson now and is going to turn things around. He might change at 93, do you think? That's often the age at which people really change their pace. I'm sitting here in some of four's newsroom with a really small team feeling really good about what we're doing. There is this new space for star reporters toreally cut through on their own terms and write their own tickets.
To make sense of a turbulent and important week in media, we turn to Ben Smith who was the founding Editor in Chief of Buzzfeed News (2012 to 2020) and the former New York Times media critic (from 2020 to 2022). On the agenda: the shuttering of Buzzfeed News, the meaning of Murdoch's settlement with Dominion and what Ben is working on these days, including his news organization Semafor and his forthcoming book, Traffic.
Since we taped Kara got her blue check (against her wishes!) when Twitter re-verified some accounts over the weekend.
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