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Julia Turner is editor-in-chief of Slate.

“That’s what we’ve been focused on: trying to double down on the stuff that feels distinctive and original. Because if you spend all your time on a social platform, and a bunch of media brands are optimizing all their content for that social platform, all those media brands’ headlines say the same, all the content is pretty interchangeable. It turns media into this commodity where then what is the point of developing a media company for 20 years? You might as well take the Silicon Valley approach and just make a new one every three years for whatever that moment is.”

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[03:15] Michael Kinsley on the cover of Newsweek

[06:15] Slate Plus

[07:45] Turner’s Slate Archive

[08:00] Other Magazines on Slate

[24:00] "The Secret Language of Signs" (Slate • Mar 2010)

[33:30] "In Defense of the Take" (Slate • Apr 2015)

[35:30] John Herrman's "Content Wars" Series

[37:00] "BuzzFeed v CNN: How One Snarky Comment Ignited a Fight for the Future of News" (Itay Hod • The Wrap • Aug 2016)

[43:45] Political Gabfest

[43:45] Culture Gabfest

[46:30] DoubleX Gabfest

[48:00] Panoply

[51:00] "The State of Slate" (Slate • Jul 2014) [sub req’d]

[53:00] "A Death in Yellowstone" (Jessica Grose • Slate • Apr 2012)

[53:00] "What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?" (Emily Bazelon • Slate • Jul 2010)

[53:00] "The United States of Inequality" (Timothy Noah • Slate • Sep 2010)

[53:00] "The Welfare Queen" (Josh Levin • Slate • Dec 2013)

[53:30] "Prog Spring" (David Weigel • Slate • Aug 2012)

[55:15] "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (Herman Melville, Andrew Kahn • Slate • Oct 2015)

[56:15] Cover Stories on Slate

[57:30] "191 Things Donald Trump Has Said and Done That Make Him Unfit to Be President" (Chris Kirk, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Gabriel Roth • Slate • Sep 2016)

[58:00] "Why Slate Will Break the Traditional Information Embargo on Nov. 8." (Slate • Sep 2016)

[1:00:30] Sasha Issenberg’s Slate Archive

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Naomi Zeichner is editor-in-chief of The Fader.

“Right now in rap there’s kind of a huge tired idea that kids are trying to kill their idols, and kids have no respect for history, and kids are making bastardized crazy music, and how dare they? I just don’t even know why we still care about this false dichotomy. Kids are coming from where they come from, they’re going where they’re going. And it’s like, do you want to try to learn about where they’re coming from and where they’re going, or do you not?”

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Zeichner on Longform

[05:00] "Zayn Malik’s Next Direction" (Duncan Cooper • The Fader • Nov 2015)

[10:30] "Gucci Free" (Andrew Nosnitsky • The Fader • Jul 2016)

[17:00] "America Is Brutal and Meek Mill Is a Hero" (Will Stephenson • The Fader • May 2015)

[17:30] "Rae Sremmurd’s Best Life" (The Fader • Jun 2016)

[25:00] Young Thug on YouTube

[30:00] Flagpole

[32:45] "Yo-Yo Ma, The Silk Road Ensemble—Empire State of Mind" (YouTube)

[43:30] David Remnick on the Longform Podcast

 

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Ben Taub is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.

“I don’t think it’s my place to be cynical because I’ve observed some of the horrors of the Syrian War through these various materials, but it’s Syrians that are living them. It’s Syrians that are being largely ignored by the international community and by a lot of political attention on ISIS. And I think that it wouldn’t be my place to be cynical when some of them still aren’t.”

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Taub on Longform

[02:45] David Remnick on the Longform Podcast

[08:45] "Was U.S. Journalist Steven Sotloff a Marked Man?" (Daily Beast • Sep 2014)

[28:00] Taub on The Voice (YouTube)

[33:00] "Journey to Jihad" (New Yorker • Jun 2015)

[49:00] Rukmini Callimachi on the Longform Podcast (Part 1)

[49:00] Rukmini Callimachi on the Longform Podcast (Part 2)

[50:30] "The Shadow Doctors" (New Yorker • Jun 2016)

[50:30] "The Assad Files" (New Yorker • Apr 2016)

[52:00] "’They were torturing to kill’: inside Syria’s death machine" (Guardian • Oct 2015)

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Sarah Schweitzer is a former feature writer for the Boston Globe.

“I just am drawn, I think, to the notion that we start out as these creatures that just want love and were programmed that way—to try to find it and to make our lives whole. We are, as humans, so strong in that way. We get knocked down, and adults do some horrible things to us because adults have had horrible things done to [them]. There are some terrible cycles in this world. But there’s always this opportunity to stop that cycle. And there are people who come along who do try that in their own flawed ways.”

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Schweitzer on Longform

[2:45] With Her

[3:15] Pineapple Street Media

[4:45] "The life and times of Strider Wolf" (Boston Globe • Nov 2015)

[16:45] Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Adrian Nicole LeBlanc • Scribner • 2004)

[27:45] "Only a few tackle the trying times" (St. Petersburg Times • Oct 2000)

[32:45] "Chasing Bayla" (Boston Globe • Oct 2014)

[38:00] "Struggling town votes to end itself" (Boston Globe • Mar 2004)

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Rachel Monroe is a freelance writer based in Texas.

“I will totally go emotionally deep with people. If I can find a subject who is into that then it will probably be a good story. Whether that person is a victim of a crime, or a committer of a crime, or a woman who spends a lot of time on the internet looking for hoaxes, or whatever it may be—I guess I just think people are interesting. Particularly when those people have gone through some sort of extreme situation.”

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Monroe on Longform

[00:45] "Fire Behavior" (Oxford American • Apr 2014)

[01:00] Love and Ruin: Tales of Obsession, Danger, and Heartbreak from the Atavist Magazine (W.W. Norton & Company • 2016)

[04:45] "From Pickup Artist to Pariah" (New York • Jan 2016)

[15:45] "Evil Genius" (Pacific Standard • Sep 2015)

[18:15] "Have You Ever Thought About Killing Someone?" (Matter • Apr 2015)

[42:00] "Cancer Cons, Phoney Accidents and Fake Deaths: Meet the Internet Hoax Buster" (The Guardian • Feb 2016)

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McKay Coppins is a senior political writer for Buzzfeed News and the author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House.

“I am part of the problem. Not in the sense that it’s my fault Trump ran, but in the sense that I’m one of many who for his entire life have mocked him and ridiculed him. He’s a billionaire—I don’t feel any moral guilt about it. But if being I’m honest with myself that same part of me can also, when not checked, be projected onto vast swathes of people. It’s easy to have a lazy classism about the type of people who would vote for Donald Trump.”

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Show Notes:

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McKay Coppins’ Buzzfeed Archive

[2:28] "A Mormon Reporter On The Romney Bus" (Buzzfeed • Nov 2012

[10:56] No Man Knows My History (Fawn M Brodie • Vintage • 1995)

[11:18] Rough Stone Rolling (Richard Lyman Bushman • Vintage • 2007)

[14:20] 36 Hours On The Fake Campaign Trail With Donald Trump(Buzzfeed • Feb 2014)

[25:40] The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House (Little, Brown • 2015)

[30:05] Donald Trump’s Mormon Problem (New York Times • Jun 2016)

[32:35] "Trump Campaign Rally Erupts In Chaos And Ugly Confrontation " (Buzzfeed • Dec 2015)

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Gabriel Sherman is the national affairs editor at New York and the author of the New York Times best-seller The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News—and Divided a Country.

“There was a time when we got death threats at home. Some crank called and said, ‘We’re gonna come after you. You’re coming after the right, we’re gonna get you.’ That was scary because, again, you don’t know if it’s just a crank when you have right wing websites that are turning you into a target. You know, it’s one thing if they do it with a politician. They have security or handlers—I don’t have any of that.”

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Jon Mooallem is the author of "American Hippopotamus," a story included in Love and Ruin, the new Atavist Magazine collection. Buy your copy today.

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Ezra Klein the editor-in-chief of Vox.

“I think that if any of these big players collapse, when their obits are written, it’ll be because they did too much. I’m not saying I think any of them in particular are doing too much. But I do think, when I look around and I think, ‘What is the danger here? What is the danger for Vox?’ I think it is losing too much focus because you’re trying to do too many things.”

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Klein on Longform

Vox

[01:00] The Ezra Klein Show

[2:00] The Weeds

[2:45] Ezra Klein’s Blog

[5:00] "Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lessons, and interrogating strangers" (The Ezra Klein Show • Jun 2016)

[8:45] Videos on Vox

[11:15] Wonkblog

[16:00] "If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon" (Washington Post • Apr 2013)

[21:30] Matthew Yglesias’s Blog

[23:45] What It Takes: The Way to the White House (Richard Ben Cramer • Vintage Books • 1993)

[25:15] Ezra Klein’s Washington Monthly Archive

[26:30] Ezra Klein’s American Prospect Archive

[34:15] "Top Wonkblog Columnist to Leave Washington Post" (Ravi Somaiya • New York Times • Jan 2014)

[49:15] The Verge

[49:15] Eater

[49:15] SB Nation

[49:15] Polygon

[49:15] Curbed

[49:15] Recode

[49:15] Racked

[1:00:30] Card Stacks on Vox

[1:03:00] Ezra Klein’s New Yorker Archive

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Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His new podcast is Revisionist History.

“The amount of criticism you get is a constant function of the size of your audience. So if you think that, generously speaking, 80% of the people who read your work like it, that means if you sell ten books you have two enemies. And if you sell a million books you have 200,000 enemies. So be careful what you wish for. The volume of critics grows linearly with the size of your audience.”

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Gladwell.com

Gladwell on Longform

[00:15] Malcolm Gladwell on the Longform Podcast

[00:15] Revisionist History

[08:30] "Episode 01: The Lady Vanishes" (Revisionist History • Jun 2016)

[08:30] "Episode 03: The Big Man Can’t Shoot" (Revisionist History • Jun 2016)

[08:30] "Episode 02: Saigon, 1965" (Revisionist History • Jun 2016)

[10:30] "Hulk Hogan v. Gawker: A Guide to the Trial for the Perplexed" (The New York Times • Mar 2016)

[19:30] "Episode 06: My Little Hundred Million" (Revisionist History • Jul 2016)

[23:45] "Malcolm Gladwell just went nuts on a Wall Street billionaire’s $400 million donation to Harvard" (Business Insider • Jun 2015)

[28:45] Gladwell on Audible

[31:45] "Episode 05: Food Fight" (Revisionist History • Jul 2016)

[32:30] "Episode 04: Carlos Doesn’t Remember" (Revisionist History • Jul 2016)

[32:45] Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Longform Podcast

[37:45] "Thresholds of Violence" (New Yorker • Oct 2015)

[38:30] "Threshold Models of Collective Behavior" (American Journal of Sociology • May 1978)

[43:30] The Weeds

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