TPS69 GRINDSET | Symeon Brown, Moya Lothian-McLean

We're talking about the work of young people entering the online 'influencer' economy and journalism today. Symeon Brown was shortlisted for an Orwell Prize in 2019 and shortlisted at the 2018 British Journalism Awards and is author of a new book on online influencers, Get Rich or Lie Trying. Moya Lothian-McLean is politic editor for Gal-Dem and a freelance journalist. The episode covers the pathologies of this deeply itinerant work, 'black-fishing', Jussie Smollett, emerging online media, and the effect all this is happening on the politics of the so-called 'Generation Left'. Support us at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod and help us grow. For the music we used in this episode and loads more, follow the TPS Spotify playlist.