Diversity Hire

Hello and welcome to episode 59.

This is our last interview for a while, and we decided to talk to our friend Camille Bromley, who is one of our favorite magazine editors. We talked about why magazines still matter, even when working at them is incredibly painful. We think you guys will really like this conversation and have so enjoyed all the conversations we’ve had so far. Thank you (REALLY) for listening.

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Today, Kevin & Arjun talk about nihilistic tendencies with regards to Ben Simmons, 1 on 1 hangouts, The Believer, and our own podcast. We’ll have a guest next week!

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Hello and welcome to episode 57 of Diversity Hire.

Today we talked to Ian F. Blair, the editor of the LA Times’ weekend magazine Image. Our conversation covered: keeping a low profile online, why the fuck do we keep making magazines, how not to make a bland milquetoast publication, telling the story of a community, Laker fandom, and much more.

Kevin and Arjun talked about not understanding the Bad Art Friend discourse and why Franklin Park is the lamest party location in all of New York. Thanks for listening!

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Hello and welcome!

We are back from the hiatus. We talked to journalist and editor Tristan Ahtone about how badly the mainstream media covers Native issues and what can be done to make it better, how the edit a magazine like a painter, the vast and weird world of the Southwest, getting to know a community rather parachuting in for one-off reports, the cruel history of land grant universities and whether and the possibility of reparations, and much more.

Kevin and Arjun also deliver a state of the pod (we might be winding down soon and working on new projects!!!), our favorite grocery stores, why media news is so boring right now.

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Hello and welcome to episode 55 of Diversity Hire.

We are proud to present our state of the pod with a podcast reporting legend and small business owner Nick Quah. We talked about the past, present, and future of the medium we all participate in, vibes vs audio fidelity, why narrative podcasts are annoying, why we keep listening to podcasts we know are bad for us, why we pod (friends!!), and much more. 

Also, Kevin and Arjun are going to take a month off from the pod! See you guys in September. Thanks for all the support so far.

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Hello and welcome to Diversity Hire. Today is a special episode, a pilot for a potential pay-walled project we are thinking of calling The Minority Report. Our inaugural guest is art world maven Dean Kissick. Lots of tea was spilled about the origins of current hot neighborhoods, E-flux talks, autofiction, the SCENE, working out and staying healthy, and why fiction is the hardest art of all. Kevin and Arjun talk about the misplaced nostalgia of current partying, being grumpy, and whiteboy bands that suck. Thanks for listening!

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Hello and welcome to episode 53 of Diversity Hire. Today’s guest is Wesley Lowery, who is a journalist at CBS News for 60 Minutes and a contributing editor at the Marshall Project. We talked about the ways public humiliation can be used to create change inside newsrooms, the publishing power afforded to journalists via social media, the myth of objectivity, and what virtues journalism should instead model itself after, being profiled by Ben Smith, and much more. This episode was part of our collaboration with Montez Press! Welcome if you came upon it from there.

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Hello and welcome to episode 52 of Diversity Hire. Longtime listeners will be glad to know this is the episode with the BEST AUDIO QUALITY we’ve ever achieved. That’s because we got a professional podcast producer to talk to us: B.A. Parker of the Cut. We had a really fun and wide-ranging conversation about Columbia grad programs, having NO JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE!!!, developing one’s podcast/radio voice, the presumed (white) audience for podcasting, and much more. Thanks for listening!

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Hello and welcome to an old episode of the Diversity Hire.

It’s our podcast’s first birthday and we’re tired. We are busy at work on our collaboration with Montez Press Radio, so we decided to revisit an episode we released on July 1, 2020: Our conversation with Jay Caspian Kang. Pretty much everything Jay has said about the cynical way the media implicated itself during the uprisings of last summer came true.

Anyway….thanks for bearing with us and we are excited to bring you a new episode next week.

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Hello and welcome to Episode 50 of Diversity Hire. Thanks for making it this far with us. We have a special guest for you guys this week: Max Tani of The Daily Beast. WE 👏GOT👏 MESSY👏

A few of the topics include: Who invented the concept of Dimes Square, going to parties, Google docs full of gossip waiting to become news, hating DC, the ups and downs and ups of the media labor movement, our thoughts on B*n Sm**h, media’s broken star system, shouting out our influential listeners, and a WHOLE LOT more. 

If you are a new or old listener, thanks for sticking it out with us. Enjoy this episode!!

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