Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
Roben Farzad
The business of culture. The culture of business. Policy; media & tech; entrepreneurs and more.
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Apr 29, 2016 • 57min
What Are Words For?
Joshua Topolsky (stealth mode digital exec) and NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik on print journalism's ancient struggle to make a digital living. We also talk the New York Times, Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, NPR and beards in Brooklyn. Twitter: @FullDRadio

Apr 19, 2016 • 50min
Yahoothanasia
Internet pioneer Yahoo! -- once worth $140 billion; its core business is now worth under $3 billion -- has reluctantly put itself up for sale. Activist investor Eric Jackson tells us where the company's board and management went wrong and what this says about the broader state of corporate governance.
Twitter @FullDRadio

Apr 13, 2016 • 1h 3min
Young House LIVE
Sherry and John Petersik -- "Young House Love" -- are bestselling DIY authors, accidental Internet business moguls and overall millennial badasses. Hear their story of reinvention ... at our first show from Richmond's historic Hippodrome Theater. Follow us @FullDRadio and on Facebook.com/FullDRadio

Mar 23, 2016 • 56min
Reinventing Phil
After 37 years as a prolific writer, editor and blogger at TIME and Fortune, Philip Elmer-DeWitt is going solo as Apple 3.0. We talk about the heyday of expense-account journalism, magazines' prolonged decline and the challenges of getting readers to shell out for your content. Also: bathrobes.

Mar 16, 2016 • 56min
Tuesdays With Marty: Episode 2
An hour around the world and across the headlines with one of my favorite journos: Marty Schenker, senior executive editor at Bloomberg News. We talk Election 2016, oil, China, markets, hedge funds, activism, real estate and the meaning of life.

Mar 9, 2016 • 56min
Dr. Arnold Kim, Mac Daddy
Paging the nephrologist turned MacRumors guru. We talk about his unlikely career pivot, all things Apple, blogging, bathrobes, Tesla, kidney stones and making money on content in 2000 vs 2016.

Feb 25, 2016 • 56min
On "Hate-Selling"
Frequent travelers Rafat Ali of Skift and Meg Riley of the Martin Agency lament the industry's record levels of passive-aggression -- and how technology and innovation are giving customers more leverage and new choices.
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Feb 17, 2016 • 57min
The Great 2016 Supermarket War
Kroger. Whole Foods. Wegman's. Publix. Ahold Giant. Lidl. Aldi. Trader Joe's. AMAZON! Old regional monopolies, be damned. The supermarket industry is in an arms race to scratch and claw for single-digit profit margins. Why is this otherwise sedate and mature business suddenly in hyper-expansion mode? Is it a bubble? Consider the case of Richmond, VA -- perhaps the country's most supermarketed city. Twitter @FullDRadio

Feb 4, 2016 • 57min
Shooting the Bull$h*t with Jason Zweig
Finally: veteran investing columnist Jason Zweig of the WSJ agrees to come on Full Disclosure. He talks about the markets, his career, Wall Street's rampant bullshattery and his handy little book, The Devil's Financial Dictionary. We're @FullDRadio on Twitter and Facebook.com/FullDRadio ...

Jan 13, 2016 • 58min
Quit Your Job Without a Backup Plan
Tess Vigeland, longtime Marketplace host, left her job, sold her belongings and is now traveling the world to reinvent. She authored the book Leap: Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want.
We patched her in from Vietnam.


