Hello folks, welcome to the relaunch of the Inside The Newsroom podcast! It’s been a while since I got the microphone out, but I’m back and will be podcasting with a top journalist at least monthly from now on. What better way to get back on th

🎧 #89 — Olga Khazan (The Atlantic)

Dec 1st, 2020 40m 46s

Hello folks! Happy December and welcome to another episode of Inside The Newsroom, where today’s guest is Olga Khazan! As you might know, The Atlantic is my favourite news outlet of them all, so it was an absolute delight to speak to Olga about

#88 — Josh Morgerman (Hurricane Man)

Nov 24th, 2020 52m 5s

Hello folks and welcome to another episode of Inside The Newsroom, where today’s guest is the hurricane man himself, Mr. Josh Morgerman. I had Josh and his director Caroline Menzies on the pod last year to talk about their hit TV show, Hurrican

🎧 #86 — Dalal Mawad (Associated Press)

Nov 3rd, 2020 45m

Hello folks! Happy U.S. election day and welcome to another episode of Inside The Newsroom! Best of luck to everyone voting today, I’ll be following along every step and making a whole lot of charts along the way! Before I do, I can’t wait to s

#82 — Louise Story (Wall Street Journal)

Oct 5th, 2020 49m 15s

Hello! Welcome to another episode of the Inside The Newsroom podcast. It’s been a while since we hit the airwaves, but now that the paywall is up and the bulk of the world’s elections are completed, I plan to bring you a podcast every week unti

#80 — Cass Sunstein (Harvard University)

Jul 21st, 2020 42m 39s

Hello! Welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom, as we welcome in Cass Sunstein, a professor at Harvard Law School and one of the foremost behavioural economists to have ever lived. Cass has a new book out in September called Too Much

#79 — Janelle Shane (AIWeirdness.com)

Jun 16th, 2020 52m 1s

Hello! Welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom! Today’s podcast is the first in a while, so it felt great to get back on the horse and devour some knowledge. Today’s guest is Janelle Shane, research scientist in artificial intelligenc

#78 — Mark Gamba (U.S. House Candidate)

May 15th, 2020 50m 6s

Happy Friday folks, and welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom, where today we’ll have the latest in our series of candidates running for public office. This time it’s the turn of Mark Gamba, who’s vying to represent Oregon’s 5th dis

#77 — Francesco Marconi (Applied XL)

May 11th, 2020 50m 19s

Hello! Welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom, where today’s guest is… one of the smartest people to grace this podcast’s airways, Francesco Marconi! Francesco recently left the Wall Street Journal where he was R&D Chief to form his

#76 — Betsy Sweet (U.S. Senate Candidate ME)

May 8th, 2020 49m 46s

Hello! Welcome to another episode of Inside The Newsroom where today we welcome Betsy Sweet to the podcast! Betsy’s a veteran of Maine politics and is running for U.S. Senate, where she must defeat Sara Gideon and Bre Kidman in July’s Democrati

#75 — Alex Schiffer (The Athletic)

May 4th, 2020 45m 38s

Hello! Welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom where today’s guest is… friend and former colleague Alex Schiffer from The Athletic! Alex and I met in 2015 at journalism school at the University of Missouri, and he’s gone onto become o

#74 — Major Garrett (CBS News)

Apr 30th, 2020 50m 26s

Hello! Welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom where today’s guest is… Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News and one of the hardest working journalists in the world today. Major and I discussed everything from ho

#73 — Nick Rubando (U.S. House Candidate)

Apr 27th, 2020 50m 19s

Hello! Welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom, where today’s guest is… U.S House of Representatives candidate from Ohio’s 5th district Nick Rubando. Nick must defeat two other Democrats in tomorrow’s primary in order to face Republic

#72 — Ryan Broderick (BuzzFeed) on YouTube's 15th Anniversary

Apr 23rd, 2020 1h 9m

Hello! And welcome to a very special edition of Inside The Newsroom where we’ll celebrate the 15th anniversary of YouTube, and go through the ups and downs of the world’s largest video sharing platform with today’s guest Ryan Broderick of BuzzF

#71 — Andrea Jones-Rooy (Social Scientist, Comedian)

Apr 20th, 2020 1h 6m

Andrea Jones-Rooy is a social scientist, standup comedian and circus performer. She teaches a course on data diversity at New York University and is the host of Ask A Political Scientist for Caveat NYC.Andrea 👇Job CornerA couple of weeks ago I

#70 — Amy Webb (Future Today Institute)

Apr 16th, 2020 54m 12s

Hello! Welcome to another episode of Inside The Newsroom, where today’s guest is Amy Webb, a world-renowned quantitative futurist and the founder of the Future Today Institute. You can find out more about who Amy is and what she does below, but

#69 — James Spann (ABC 33/40)

Apr 3rd, 2020 55m 15s

Hello! And welcome to another episode of Inside The Newsroom. It’s April, which means we’re officially inside the 2020 U.S. tornado season, so today we have WEATHER ROYALTY on the podcast. James Spann is chief meteorologist at ABC 33/40 in Birm

#68 — Mckayla Wilkes (U.S. House)

Mar 30th, 2020 42m 41s

Hello! And welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom. Today we have a very special guest from Maryland’s 5th district, Democratic candidate for U.S. House Mckayla Wilkes, who’s taking on fellow Democrat Steny Hoyer, with the vote curren

📊 Coronavirus U.S. State Trajectories

Mar 27th, 2020 28m 5s

Well that happened quick, didn’t it? The U.S. has now overtaken China for the most confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, and there is no sign of America’s trajectory from slowing down. This is what you get when 62 million people vote for a

#67 — Sarah Nöckel (Femstreet)

Mar 25th, 2020 45m 8s

Hello! And welcome to another episode of Inside The Newsroom. We’re in crazy times, so I thought it’d be good to take a break with today’s podcast guest… Sarah Nöckel, founder of Femstreet, a newsletter dedicated to women in tech and venture ca

Coronavirus: What every country is doing (J-Z)

Mar 16th, 2020 36m 24s

Hello. Welcome to Inside The Newsroom. We’re in unprecedented times. The coronavirus pandemic has swept through most of the planet, with total cases at more than 167,000 and deaths at 6,449, as of Monday morning. It’s quickly becoming one of th

Coronavirus: What every country is doing (A-I)

Mar 16th, 2020 36m 24s

#66 — Francesca Fiorentini (Comedian, Journalist)

Mar 2nd, 2020 58m 15s

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom! I’m vacationing in Greece this week, but that ain’t no damn reason for no podcast. Bad English aside, today’s guest is… Francesca Fiorentini, journalist, author, comedian and officia

#65 — Andrew Flowers (Journalist > Politician)

Feb 28th, 2020 49m 1s

Hello! Welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom, where we’ll be interviewing a political candidate for the second straight week! Last week Paula Jean Swearengin, star of the Netflix documentary Knock Down The House came on to talk abou

#64 — Paula Jean Swearengin (U.S. Senate)

Feb 18th, 2020 40m 32s

Hello! And welcome to another edition of Inside The Newsroom. Today’s guest is… the formidable Paula Jean Swearengin, star of the Netflix documentary Knock Down The House and current candidate for U.S. Senate from the great state of West Virgin