In this chapter, guests Casey Newton and Kevin Roose discuss the challenges of creating a podcast that covers rapidly evolving tech news and talk about their approach to selecting topics for each episode.
Casey Newton writes the Platformer newsletter. Kevin Roose is a technology columnist for The New York Times. Together they co-host the podcast Hard Fork.
CN: “People actually like to be a little bit confused. They like listening to things where people are talking about things they don’t quite understand, which was very counterintuitive to me. I think a lot of editor-types would scoff at, but I’ve come around.”
KR: “We can revisit subjects and we do. We can change our minds. Print pieces feel so permanent, they feel so definitive. Podcasts, we can just sort of say, ‘I don't know what to make of this, ask me again in a month.’”
Show notes:
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices