Episode 212: Julia Turner

Published: Sept. 21, 2016, 7:07 p.m.

b'Julia Turner is editor-in-chief of Slate.\\n\\n \\u201cThat\\u2019s what we\\u2019ve 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\\u2019 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.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Audible, and Igloo for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@juliaturner\\n[03:15] Michael Kinsley on the cover of Newsweek\\n[06:15] Slate Plus\\n[07:45] Turner\\u2019s Slate Archive\\n[08:00] Other Magazines on Slate\\n[24:00] "The Secret Language of Signs" (Slate \\u2022 Mar 2010)\\n[33:30] "In Defense of the Take" (Slate \\u2022 Apr 2015)\\n[35:30] John Herrman\'s "Content Wars" Series\\n[37:00] "BuzzFeed v CNN: How One Snarky Comment Ignited a Fight for the Future of News" (Itay Hod \\u2022 The Wrap \\u2022 Aug 2016)\\n[43:45] Political Gabfest\\n[43:45] Culture Gabfest\\n[46:30] DoubleX Gabfest\\n[48:00] Panoply\\n[51:00] "The State of Slate" (Slate \\u2022 Jul 2014) [sub req\\u2019d]\\n[53:00] "A Death in Yellowstone" (Jessica Grose \\u2022 Slate \\u2022 Apr 2012)\\n[53:00] "What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?" (Emily Bazelon \\u2022 Slate \\u2022 Jul 2010)\\n[53:00] "The United States of Inequality" (Timothy Noah \\u2022 Slate \\u2022 Sep 2010)\\n[53:00] "The Welfare Queen" (Josh Levin \\u2022 Slate \\u2022 Dec 2013)\\n[53:30] "Prog Spring" (David Weigel \\u2022 Slate \\u2022 Aug 2012)\\n[55:15] "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (Herman Melville, Andrew Kahn \\u2022 Slate \\u2022 Oct 2015)\\n[56:15] Cover Stories on Slate\\n[57:30] "191 Things Donald Trump Has Said and Done That Make Him Unfit to Be President" (Chris Kirk, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Gabriel Roth \\u2022 Slate \\u2022 Sep 2016)\\n[58:00] "Why Slate Will Break the Traditional Information Embargo on Nov. 8." (Slate \\u2022 Sep 2016)\\n[1:00:30] Sasha Issenberg\\u2019s Slate Archive\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'