Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
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Jun 15, 2024
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Every Friday media reporter Max Tani and Semafor Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith pull back the curtain on the most important stories about media, revealing why you see and hear what you see and hear.
Mixed Signals from Semafor Media is supported by Think with Google.
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Trump’s war on public media, with PBS CEO Paula Kerger
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Can the Supreme Court keep its secrets? With Jodi Kantor of the New York Times
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Derek Thompson on why everything is becoming television, and whether democracy can survive it
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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GQ Editor Will Welch on masculinity, celebrities, and staying cool as he ages
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Ken Burns on the future of PBS, the new age of media, and why documentaries will outlast TikTok
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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The inside story of Sydney Sweeney's 'Great Jeans' — and why American Eagle ignored crisis comms
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Governor JB Pritzker on Chicago, ICE, and the information war with Trump’s White House
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Alison Roman on cookbooks, food influencers, and the surprising way AI is changing her recipes
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Blackbird Spyplane’s Jonah Weiner on Substack, resisting selling out, and Obama’s pants legacy
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Can MS survive without NBC? Inside CEO Mark Lazarus’ efforts to save cable’s great brands
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Malcolm Gladwell’s theories on podcasting, America, and Joe Rogan
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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How AI is reshaping media, with Google’s VP of marketing, Josh Spanier
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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How to be elite in the age of populism, with the FT’s Roula Khalaf
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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How media drove America crazy, with Thomas Chatterton Williams
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Don Lemon on Elon Musk, Chris Cuomo, and why YouTube is better than CNN
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Mark Cuban on AI in politics, running for president (or not), and why he hates the media business
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Pablo Torre on ESPN, investigating LeBron, and becoming the New York Times' first 'creator'
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Emily Maitlis on Epstein, Prince Andrew, and why American journalists can’t do interviews
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Scott Galloway on money, marketing, and masculinity
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Director Ari Aster on ‘the movie that Twitter wrote’
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Why YouTube’s favorite doctor won’t stop talking about politics
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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The secret to Zohran Mamdani’s winning media strategy is simpler than you think
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Steve Inskeep on NPR cuts, Iran, and radio’s place in the podcast era
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Is journalism bad for The New York Times’ business? with CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Professional optimist Cleo Abram on tech’s bright future
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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The Great Rebundling — With Peter Kafka and Brian Morrissey
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons on how food ate media
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Adam Friedland on comedy, TV, and whether he’s the Joe Rogan of the left
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May 30, 2025 |
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Christiane Amanpour and Jamie Rubin on explaining the world — and podcasting with your ex
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May 23, 2025 |
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'Substack isn’t cool,' gatekeepers are, and other strong opinions from tastemaker Chris Black
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May 16, 2025 |
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Clay Travis on mixing sports and politics, his ‘pudding strike,’ and the billion-dollar bet on sports gambling
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May 09, 2025 |
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Jen Psaki on her journey from politics to cable, what the Trump White House is doing right — and whether there was a Biden cover-up
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May 02, 2025 |
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Ezra Klein on Trump, Sanity, and Podcasting
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Zeitgeist Genius Tina Brown on Meghan Markle, Vanity Fair and Whether We Still Need Editors
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Can YouTube Debates Bring America Back Together? with Jubilee’s Jason Y. Lee
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Piers Morgan On Going Independent, Meghan Markle, and Why He Likes Pouring Gasoline On the Fire
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Nick Denton’s Surprising Return, Courtesy of Elon Musk, Denmark, and Chinese Cars
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Secrets of YouTube with CEO Neal Mohan
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Does Mass Culture Still Matter? And How Snoop Dogg Mastered Commerce, with Frank Cooper
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Inside the Independent Creator World, with Substack’s Hamish McKenzie – and Nayeema Raza
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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New York Times Editor Joe Kahn, Podcaster Megyn Kelly and More on the Collapse of Trust
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Why Netflix Is “Obsessed” With Winning an Oscar, with Puck’s Matt Belloni
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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How Fox Is Embracing the Creator Economy, with Red Seat’s Chris Balfe
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Inside the Making of a Super Bowl Ad
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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How to Make Money in Media, with Kara Swisher
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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How the Creator Economy Has Transformed Advertising
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Davos, the Inauguration, and Media’s Place in the New Global Order, with Ian Bremmer
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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How Technology Will Shape Media in 2025, with Jessica Lessin
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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How Dating Apps Survive in the Age of Digital Exhaustion, with Tinder’s Melissa Hobley
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Ozy Founder Gets Prison Time: What Digital Media’s Most Notorious Scandal Says About the Business
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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How YouTube Became TV – with Colin and Samir
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Elon Musk Is Today’s Ted Turner, and Legacy Media Is “Scared”
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Post-Election: Escapism, Resistance, and Cheeseburgers
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Election 2024: What You’re NOT Seeing
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Is Fox News Winning the Election? Inside the Network with Nate Fredman
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Media Bias from the Middle East to Manhattan, with James Bennet
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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How AI Cures Writer’s Block
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Can Centrism Go Viral? With The Bulwark’s Tim Miller
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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A Safe Space for CEOs (and Politicians?) with All-In’s Jason Calacanis
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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It’s a Man Eat Dog World, with Food Critic Pete Wells
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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The Sports Boom — Football, Pickleball, Tennis and, um, Cricket
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Can Kamala Keep It Up? With Tommy Vietor
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Hacks, Olympics, and “Boomscrolling”
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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COVID Special: What the Media Got Wrong, and Right, with Dr. Anthony Fauci
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Can Kamala Hold On? With Veep EP Frank Rich
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Trump, the Man's Man at the RNC, AKA the Happiest Place on Earth
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Is Sex Political? And Will Biden — and Kamala — Survive the Vibe Shift?
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Did The Media Cover Up Biden’s Condition? And 13.5 Other Conspiracy Theories
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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When Biden Lost It & Nate Silver's Bet
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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TikTok Ban, Journalists Have Ethics?!, and the Gods of Cannes
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Hunter Biden Conspiracies, Coverage of Gaza and Sudan & Got Raw Milk?
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Brits vs Biden, Linklater on Sexless Cinema & the Song of Summer
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Media Circus of the Century, BuzzFeed Buzz & Sleeping with Your Phone
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May 31, 2024 |
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Introducing: Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
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May 23, 2024 |