Joseph Gonzalez
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The authority on all things cool
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Wall Street Journal publisher (and Dow Jones CEO) Almar Latour is on Decoder today -- we taped the day after the WSJ laid off a dozen tech reporters, so naturally I opened by asking what the plan is www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
![I want to start with the news. Just last night, The Wall Street Journal, of which Dow Jones is the publisher, restructured how it covers tech and media. That involved cutting about 10 or 15 editors and reporters. Obviously, I’m very interested in how you structure a newsroom to cover tech. Why make that decision? Why get smaller?
First, this is a newsroom decision, so this is squarely in the terrain of [editor-in-chief] Emma Tucker, who’s a new editor, relatively speaking. She’s in year two, moving into year three. Emma was hired with a remit of helping to increase engagement with our existing readers, to expand our readership, and to maintain and enhance the quality of our coverage. She has set out over the past two years to rethink how she wants to offer news with The Wall Street Journal newsroom.
Her consistent message, and this is one that I subscribe to, is that distinctive journalism is what makes the difference. It’s about knowing the interesting story, the story behind the story, and to have exclusive journalism and insights. That I say as a preface because Emma has been making changes to nearly every part of The Wall Street Journal and continues to do that.
So what happened yesterday was a continuation of that. Generally, when you look at the changes that she’s brought in — I’m not speaking specifically about the San Francisco bureau but tech — it’s been new talent. She has an antenna for what she thinks works there. And one of the areas where that’s been very pronounced in recent months is in Washington, D.C. That has gone through several cycles of changes.
She’s brought in new people, and that has had consequences. The marching orders are slightly different when there is a closer connection to the center of the newsroom, where the decisions about news can be made in the context of a broader story that’s happening around the world, rather than in isolation around a certain topic. So that’s the context for yesterday.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x56l2n7i7babgdzqul4bd433/bafkreie5yibulwe2tsylkdny3zcwedjvyrshfyz3u7uqjcfxli5lugywoe@jpeg)
March 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Wall Street Journal publisher (and Dow Jones CEO) Almar Latour is on Decoder today -- we taped the day after the WSJ laid off a dozen tech reporters, so naturally I opened by asking what the plan is www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz Why isn’t Decoder available on YouTube?
February 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz Why isn’t Decoder available on YouTube?
@davidimel.com is something wrong with the feed?
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
@davidimel.com is something wrong with the feed?
@reckless.bsky.social Yo…Nilay, I just realized I never got my physical magazine for subscribing to theverge.com Did they ship?
February 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
@reckless.bsky.social Yo…Nilay, I just realized I never got my physical magazine for subscribing to theverge.com Did they ship?
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@taylorlorenz.bsky.social The latest episode of Power User on the RSS feed is linking to the previous episode.
January 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social The latest episode of Power User on the RSS feed is linking to the previous episode.
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It's. Time.
www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24...
www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24...
Get ready for the Switch 2 announcement this week.
VGC reports that Nintendo will reveal its new console on Thursday, January 16th. This is according to claims from reliable video game podcaster Nate the Hate and supported by The Verge’s own insider s...
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January 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It's. Time.
www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24...
www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24...
Y’all ever have something you like, but NEVER need to see or hear again? Like, I grew up jamming to AC/DC, but if I never hear an AC/DC song again…that’s ok
January 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Y’all ever have something you like, but NEVER need to see or hear again? Like, I grew up jamming to AC/DC, but if I never hear an AC/DC song again…that’s ok
Imagine being JD Vance. Letting MAGA supporters talk shot about your wife and your kids for not being purebred whites…supporting President Frump, and then being pushed aside like a piece of trash for Elon’s pasty ass. Like, damn, bro…that’s cucking on a whole other level!
December 22, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Imagine being JD Vance. Letting MAGA supporters talk shot about your wife and your kids for not being purebred whites…supporting President Frump, and then being pushed aside like a piece of trash for Elon’s pasty ass. Like, damn, bro…that’s cucking on a whole other level!
The amount of pure garbage I receive on my Google iPhone app is pathetic. Nothing but garbage, ad-littered, SEO bullshit. If I could choose my own sources, that’d be awesome, unfortunately Google makes money by shoveling shit.
December 18, 2024 at 5:54 PM
The amount of pure garbage I receive on my Google iPhone app is pathetic. Nothing but garbage, ad-littered, SEO bullshit. If I could choose my own sources, that’d be awesome, unfortunately Google makes money by shoveling shit.
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Earlier this year, YouTube changed the web embed we use to disable the title link back to YouTube, which everyone hates -- I get notes about it all the time. Re-enabling that link would require us to... make less money on our work. Super cool all around: www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/2...
YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours
Here’s why you can’t click the title to go back to YouTube on our videos
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December 12, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Earlier this year, YouTube changed the web embed we use to disable the title link back to YouTube, which everyone hates -- I get notes about it all the time. Re-enabling that link would require us to... make less money on our work. Super cool all around: www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/2...
Fuck Time magazine’s dusty ass.
December 11, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Fuck Time magazine’s dusty ass.
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I honestly don’t know how to give a fuck anymore. During Trump’s first run up to election, the 24/7 news cycle was driving me into a depression. His whole presidency had me a whirlwind of emotions. At this point. Every headline about his cabinet picks, his positions, his executive orders, 1/2
December 10, 2024 at 5:52 PM
I honestly don’t know how to give a fuck anymore. During Trump’s first run up to election, the 24/7 news cycle was driving me into a depression. His whole presidency had me a whirlwind of emotions. At this point. Every headline about his cabinet picks, his positions, his executive orders, 1/2
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To the “high road” Democratic leaders who say Biden should pardon Trump, knock it off. What the hell kind of a message do you think that would send? We need to fight autocracy, not flirt with it.
December 9, 2024 at 10:13 PM
To the “high road” Democratic leaders who say Biden should pardon Trump, knock it off. What the hell kind of a message do you think that would send? We need to fight autocracy, not flirt with it.
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Ryan Murphy has already secured the rights to his story.
December 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Ryan Murphy has already secured the rights to his story.
Um, excuse me, @reckless.bsky.social I remember using a Palm Treo to set up a VPN and tethering it as a modem to my Dell Inspiron in 2007 to stream Season 3 of Supernatural in my apartment, so, uh, yeah, I think BT most definitely HAPPENED
December 9, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Um, excuse me, @reckless.bsky.social I remember using a Palm Treo to set up a VPN and tethering it as a modem to my Dell Inspiron in 2007 to stream Season 3 of Supernatural in my apartment, so, uh, yeah, I think BT most definitely HAPPENED
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it would also really own the libs to have ranked choice voting
December 9, 2024 at 3:41 PM
it would also really own the libs to have ranked choice voting
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I could not have been clearer about this
December 9, 2024 at 4:49 AM
I could not have been clearer about this
As an annual subscriber, I will be telling my friends and family I’m an official Lightning Round sponsor for @theverge.com Vergecast. I am, however, a proponent of a free press, so, I will not be using any of my financial pull to influence the journalistic integrity of the site.
December 7, 2024 at 5:22 AM
As an annual subscriber, I will be telling my friends and family I’m an official Lightning Round sponsor for @theverge.com Vergecast. I am, however, a proponent of a free press, so, I will not be using any of my financial pull to influence the journalistic integrity of the site.
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I have two stories in the @theverge.com zine we printed — one about a guy who has been an absolute menace spamming the web with AI garbage, and another about the scourge of obituary spam online.
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December 5, 2024 at 5:46 PM
I have two stories in the @theverge.com zine we printed — one about a guy who has been an absolute menace spamming the web with AI garbage, and another about the scourge of obituary spam online.
Available only to Verge subscribers 🦠 www.theverge.com/subscribe
Available only to Verge subscribers 🦠 www.theverge.com/subscribe
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We are in extremely odd and dangerous times for the First Amendment and press freedom specifically, but the root cause of our poisoned information ecosystem is broken networks owned by literal adversarial interests!
December 6, 2024 at 4:50 PM
We are in extremely odd and dangerous times for the First Amendment and press freedom specifically, but the root cause of our poisoned information ecosystem is broken networks owned by literal adversarial interests!
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It’s weird to think Musk owning X and other billionaires owning whatever newspapers and cable networks is a problem but not think China running TikTok is a problem
December 6, 2024 at 4:48 PM
It’s weird to think Musk owning X and other billionaires owning whatever newspapers and cable networks is a problem but not think China running TikTok is a problem
@theverge.com I’m still seeing ads even though I subscribed to the annual plan.
Are y’all seeing this a lot?
Are y’all seeing this a lot?
December 5, 2024 at 5:14 PM
@theverge.com I’m still seeing ads even though I subscribed to the annual plan.
Are y’all seeing this a lot?
Are y’all seeing this a lot?