Show Notes
Clare Malone is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her latest article is ”Hasan Minhaj’s ‘Emotional Truths.’” “You're going to work a lot of hours if you want to be successful, and you're probably not going to make as much money as your dumb friend from college does. You're choosing it for a different reason, but I do think we have to make efforts to have the [journalism] industry be a middle-class profession.” Show notes:
Malone's New Yorker archive
Malone's FiveThirtyEight archive
03:00 "CNN’s New White Knight" (New Yorker • Sep 2023)
08:00 "Ben Smith Can’t Say What His New Media Venture Is" (New Yorker • Jan 2022)
09:00 "How Trump Changed America" (FiveThirtyEight • Nov 2020)
18:00 Just Like Us (The Ringer • 2022)
25:00 Semafor (Newsletter)
25:00 Confider (Lachlan Cartwright • Daily Beast)
27:00 "Inside the Meltdown at CNN" (Tim Alberta • Atlantic • Jun 2023)
27:00 "What the Shakeup at CNN Says About the Future of Cable News" (New Yorker • Jun 2023)
28:00 "David Zaslav, Hollywood Antihero" (New Yorker • Aug 2023)
37:00 "Ann Selzer Is the Best Pollster in American Politics" (FiveThirtyEight • Jan 2016)
39:00 Politics Podcast (FiveThirtyEight)
48:00 The Ankler (Newsletter)
49:00 "The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set" (New Yorker • Dec 2022)
57:00 ”Hasan Minhaj’s ‘Emotional Truths’” (New Yorker • Sep 2023)
58:00 Patriot Act (Hasan Minhaj • Netflix • 2020)
61:00 "Hasan Minhaj Eyed For ‘Daily Show’ Host" (Brian Steinberg • Variety • Aug 2023)
65:00 "Episode 1273 - Hasan Minhaj" (WTF with Marc Maron • Oct 2021)
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