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Mixed Signals — a podcast from Semafor Media
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The truth about modern media — from inside the machine. Every Friday, journalists Ben Smith and Max Tani pull back the curtain on key stories about media, revealing how money, access, culture and politics shape everything you read, watch, and hear.
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Mixed Signals: Davos, the inauguration, and media’s place in the new global order, with Ian Bremmer

Has digital media changed how global politics works, or vice versa?
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Mixed Signals: How technology will shape media in 2025, with Jessica Lessin

What do the big tech leaders want, and where will they push the media in 2025?
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Mixed Signals: How dating apps survive in the age of digital exhaustion, with Tinder’s Melissa Hobley

How do dating apps stay relevant in this age of screen fatigue, and what can digital media learn from their strategies?
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Mixed Signals: What digital media’s most notorious scandal says about the business

On Monday, Carlos Watson, the founder of Ozy Media, was sentenced to nearly 10 years —116 months — in prison for fraud.
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Mixed Signals: How YouTube became TV – with Colin and Samir

YouTube and podcasts have come fully of age as dominant forms of media, and legacy media companies are frantic to buy their way in.
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Mixed Signals: Elon Musk is today’s Ted Turner, and legacy media is “scared”

Mixed Signals from Semafor Media is back for Season 2, and this time we’re following the money in the ever-changing media business.

Mixed Signals: Media Bias from the Middle East to Manhattan, with The Economist’s James Bennet

Ben and Nayeema take on the question of bias in the media — a conversation that always seems timely, but especially so right now.
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Mixed Signals: How AI cures writer’s block

And when will the chatbots replace us? A conversation with playwright Ayad Akhtar.

Mixed Signals: Can centrism go viral? with The Bulwark’s Tim Miller

Is there a political caucus behind The Bulwark?

Mixed Signals: A safe space for CEOs (and politicians?) with All-In’s Jason Calacanis

What’s behind big tech’s breakup with traditional media?

Mixed Signals: It’s a man eat dog world, with food critic Pete Wells

On the menu: the health hazards of criticism, how celebrity chefs and TikTokers altered the power of his seat, and more.

Mixed Signals: The sports boom — football, pickleball, tennis and, um, cricket

Are we in a supply-side sports crisis?

Mixed Signals: Can Kamala keep it up? With Tommy Vietor

Will the Democratic Party’s newfound unity around Kamala Harris last through November 5?

Mixed Signals: Hacks, Olympics, and ‘Boomscrolling’

What makes a campaign hack newsworthy?

Mixed Signals: COVID Special — what the media got wrong & right, with Dr. Anthony Fauci

A look back at media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mixed Signals: Can Kamala hold on? With ‘Veep’ EP Frank Rich

We debate whether the VP can surf memes all the way to election day.

Mixed Signals: Trump, the man’s man at the RNC, AKA the happiest place on Earth

How Trump’s embrace of masculinity is defining his campaign in the media.

Mixed Signals: Is sex political? And will Biden — and Kamala — survive the vibe shift?

How shifting gender wars could define the 2024 election.

Mixed Signals: Democrat debate crisis...blame the media?

How did the media miss the biggest story in American politics?
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Mixed Signals: When Biden lost it & Nate Silver’s election forecast

A very special debate episode of Mixed Signals