Best Jimmy Apple blogger Podcasts (2025)

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ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro on streaming, the NFL and sports betting 48:14

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The media industry has been waiting for ESPN to cut the cord for a decade. Now it’s finally happening: This week the sports TV giant will let you start streaming — without a cable TV subscription — for $30 a month. Why now? ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro is quite frank about it: Along with his boss — Disney CEO Bob Iger — he wanted to make as much money fr…

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A Busy - and Expensive - Summer for AI, with NYT's Mike Isaac 51:42

7d ago51:42

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What makes a particular engineer worth $250 million to Mark Zuckerberg? What does Trump 2.0 mean — and not mean — to people building large language models? I didn’t know the answers to these questions either. So I got the New York Times’ Mike Isaac, who covers this stuff for a living, to walk me through some of the biggest questions in AI right now…

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Why the Algorithm is Making Comedy Boom, Again 58:53

15d ago58:53

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The last time I talked to Jesse David Fox about the comedy boom it was… March 5, 2020. Since then, some things have changed. But in other ways it’s just the same: comedy - or at least, some kinds of comedy - seems almost custom-built for our current technological and cultural moment, and it’s easier than ever to get this stuff on your devices whene…

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What is TV’s endgame? 47:28

22d ago47:28

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A decade ago, Disney CEO Bob Iger freaked out the media industry by acknowledging something many of us saw coming — his previously unassailable TV business was starting to erode. But even with a 10-year warning, today’s moguls seem unable to cope with 2025’s reality: The pay TV business is permanently eroding, and there’s nothing in its place that’…

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Why Trump is defunding NPR and PBS - and suing Rupert Murdoch 35:59

28d ago35:59

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Reporting on the place you work is not fun. But it is an occupational hazard for media reporters — particularly for NPR’s David Folkenflik. That’s because National Public Radio — along with Public Broadcasting Service, its TV counterpart — is quite frequently the target of attacks from critics on the right, who would like the federal government to …

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Inside the Rise and Fall of Condé Nast with Michael Grynbaum 47:38

1M ago47:38

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Here's one way New York Times reporter Michael Grynbaum described Condé Nast to me in this week’s chat: “A real exporter of American cultural influence in the late 20th century.” And here’s another one: "A kind of enchanted land” but also a “lost world." And here’s one way I’d describe it: it’s hard to imagine in 2025, but just a few decades ago, m…

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Inside the NYT - and Everywhere Else - with Semafor's Max Tani 48:09

1M ago48:09

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You’re probably a normal person, so you didn’t spend your holiday weekend talking to people at the New York Times about a local politics story that some people didn’t like. But that’s Max Tani’s job: He’s Semafor’s media reporter, which means he’s supposed to burrow into the paper of record — as well as other important media institutions — and tell…

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Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker on the problem with tech - and people 43:47

2M ago43:47

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"Black Mirror" creator Charlie Brooker knows that everyone thinks his show is about tech-fueled dystopias. But he says it's really about humans, not their tools. I loved this chat back when we recorded it in 2023, when Brooker was promoting the sixth season of his Netflix show. Now there's a new season - and Brooker's vision of the world is as rele…

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How to become a Substack Star with Emily Sundberg 47:07

2M ago47:07

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What's the best way to describe what Emily Sundberg does? Substacker? Influencer? Journalist? Brand-builder? Let's go with "yes". And she does a much better job of describing herself in our conversation, where we talk about how she went from being a laid-off marketer at Meta to a one-woman business with a devoted following and a revenue line that’s…

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Why did Apple ice out the most famous Apple blogger? 1:04:48

2M ago1:04:48

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If you want smart, nuanced insight into Apple’s products and would-be products, you turn to John Gruber, who’s been blogging about this stuff for more than two decades at his Daring Fireball site. So in March, when Gruber announced that Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino — focusing on Apple’s botched plans to imbue its ailing Siri servic…

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On the hunt for media optimism, with Semafor’s Ben Smith and The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey 28:22

2M ago28:22

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Here’s one where we try to do two things at once: Have a convo about green shoots in media with two smart guys who know media really well — Semafor’s Ben Smith and The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey. Try to find new audiences for our respective podcasts, by cutting up that conversation into 3 parts, and distributing those parts to our respective feeds…

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Scott Frank on Netflix, the future of Hollywood, and Dept. Q 43:42

2M ago43:42

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Scott Frank used to write great movies, like “Out of Sight.” Now he’s a Netflix guy, and a super successful one: he made “Godless,” a horses-and-everything Western for the streamer, then had a pandemic-era phenomenon with “The Queen’s Gambit.” Now he’s back with “Dept. Q”, his take on the British mystery genre. You can find that one on Netflix’s to…

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Bluesky Wasn’t Supposed to be a Twitter Rival. Now It Is. 37:01

3M ago37:01

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I admit it: I most definitely rolled my eyes in 2019, when Twitter announced vague plans to build an "open and decentralized standard for social media". At the time I didn't really understand what then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was trying to do — or why the head of a social media company with plenty of problems was messing around with plans to create…

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How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired’s Katie Drummond 47:58

3M ago47:58

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Today we’re talking about how you take a media property that’s been around for a long time, and find a way to bring in new eyeballs — and new revenue. That property is Wired — the place that told you about the internet before the internet even existed — and the person who’s reviving it is Katie Drummond, who has been running the property for a coup…

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Meta's Adam Mosseri explains how Instagram really works - and how he wants to build Threads 58:46

3M ago58:46

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Adam Mosseri's official title is head of Instagram, Meta's massive photo and video app. He also runs Threads, the Twitter clone the company launched two years ago. Unofficially, he's become one of Meta's chief explainers, frequently jumping on social media to defend and proselytize on behalf of his employer. So when I got a chance to interview Moss…

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How Apple trapped itself in China 1:07:32

3M ago1:07:32

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The iPhone you’re reading this on was made in China. For a long time, that fact was a huge part of Apple’s success story: Working hand-in-hand, Apple and China built a sophisticated supply chain that let Apple manufacture very complicated technology at an enormous scale. Now that relationship seems like Apple’s achilles heel, says Patrick McGee. Mc…

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Ian Rogers tells me I need a crypto wallet 1:04:41

4M ago1:04:41

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I wanted to talk to Ian Rogers about his fascinating career. He wanted to talk to me about Ledger, the crypto wallet company he’s working at now. So we did both things. Background: Rogers was an important figure in the digital music business, back when the music business was being fundamentally reshaped by digital. He helped the Beastie Boys get on…

Jimmy Apple Blogger Podcasts

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An Apple A Day

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Channels with Peter Kafka

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ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro on streaming, the NFL and sports betting 48:14

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A Busy - and Expensive - Summer for AI, with NYT's Mike Isaac 51:42

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Why the Algorithm is Making Comedy Boom, Again 58:53

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What is TV’s endgame? 47:28

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Why Trump is defunding NPR and PBS - and suing Rupert Murdoch 35:59

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Inside the Rise and Fall of Condé Nast with Michael Grynbaum 47:38

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Inside the NYT - and Everywhere Else - with Semafor's Max Tani 48:09

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Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker on the problem with tech - and people 43:47

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How to become a Substack Star with Emily Sundberg 47:07

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Why did Apple ice out the most famous Apple blogger? 1:04:48

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On the hunt for media optimism, with Semafor’s Ben Smith and The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey 28:22

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Scott Frank on Netflix, the future of Hollywood, and Dept. Q 43:42

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Bluesky Wasn’t Supposed to be a Twitter Rival. Now It Is. 37:01

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How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired’s Katie Drummond 47:58

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Meta's Adam Mosseri explains how Instagram really works - and how he wants to build Threads 58:46

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How Apple trapped itself in China 1:07:32

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Ian Rogers tells me I need a crypto wallet 1:04:41