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@standupkid conversations
by Mark Joyella
Mark Joyella, senior contributor at Forbes, talks to the people making the news--and the news people covering their stories. New episodes every Wednesday.
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Episodes
Episode 20: Bret Baier, Fox News
30m · PublishedAs Fox News marks its 25th anniversary this week, the network sits as the unrivaled ratings king of cable news, finishing the third quarter with an average prime time audience of 2.372 million viewersâmore than CNN and MSNBC combinedâa win that marks Foxâs 79th consecutive quarter as the most-watched cable news network.
âWeâve made huge strides over 25 years,â Fox anchor Bret Baier told me. âWhen Fox started it was this niche market. It turned out the niche was literally half the country.â
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In Episode 19 of the podcast, I spoke with Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney, whose new prime time show is American Built with Stuart Varney, which focuses on architects, engineers and historians and the iconic projects they created, like the Hoover Dam and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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28m · PublishedStuart Varney is a busy manâand heâs about to get even busier. Varney anchors host of Fox Business Networkâs market opening program, Varney & Company, a fixture of the networkâs programming thatâs often the highest-rated financial program on cable. But starting today, Varney takes on part of FBNâs prime time lineup as well, with the debut of American Built with Stuart Varney, which focuses on architects, engineers and historians and the iconic projects they created, like the Hoover Dam and the Hubble Space Telescope.
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In Episode 18 of the podcast, I spoke with Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, about Americaâs exit from Afghanistan. Griffinâs been reporting in and about the Middle East for 30 years, and is today one of the best-sourced journalists covering the Pentagon. In our conversation, Griffin talked about the first Saturday sheâd had off from work in 30 days of nonstop reporting on Afghanistan, and how stepping away from the story brought up a flood of emotions. She was attending the convocation at Georgetown University, where her two daughters are attending classes.
âI sat there listening, feeling extremely emotional at the idea that they made the announcement that 60% of the Georgetown class were women this year,â Griffin told me, the pain and sadness catching in her throat. âAnd I just thought of those Afghan university students in Kabul, and how those girls are not going to be getting educated. It is too much. This is 20, 30 years of scar tissue.â
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35m · PublishedFor Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, it was in a quiet moment, exhausted after a nonstop month of work that the emotional impact of Americaâs exit from Afghanistan caught up with her. It was her first Saturday off in weeks, and she attended convocation at Georgetown, where her daughters had just started college.
âI sat there listening, feeling extremely emotional at the idea that they made the announcement that 60% of the Georgetown class were women this year,â Griffin told me, the pain and sadness catching in her throat. âAnd I just thought of those Afghan university students in Kabul, and how those girls are not going to be getting educated. It is too much. This is 20, 30 years of scar tissue.â
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In Episode 17, I spoke with ABC News chief business, technology and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis, who has covered the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Thernos extensively in her podcast, The Drop Out, which returns for a new season focused on the trial.
âFor me, part of the joy of doing the work with The Drop Out: Elizabeth Holmes on Trialwas both the investigative side, but also this creativity where I was in this entirely new format...it was like painting with a paintbrush and getting to test things.â
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34m · PublishedThis week, Elizabeth Holmes, once described as Americaâs first self-made female billionaire, goes on trial for fraud. Sheâs accused of defrauding investors, doctors and patients who believed in the promise of her company, Theranos, which promised to test for hundreds of diseasesâall from a single drop of blood.
ABC News chief business, technology and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis has covered Holmes and Thernos extensively, and this week her podcast, The Drop Out, returns for a new season focused on the trial.
âFor me, part of the joy of doing the work with The Drop Out: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial was both the investigative side, but also this creativity where I was in this entirely new format...it was like painting with a paintbrush and getting to test things.â
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In Episode 16 of the podcast, I talked to Dateline NBC supervising producer Dan Slepian about his podcast, 13 Alibis, which told the story of a man convicted of murder despite having thirteen people willing to testify he was in another state when the crime was committed.
âI think that we would be stunned as a country to get a real understanding of how many people have been taken from their families, and put in prison for crimes they didn't commit.â
âThis isnât an aberration. Itâs how the system works,â he told me.
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31m · PublishedAfter spending nearly 30 years on death row, Ogrod was released from prison after an investigation uncovered misconduct by police and prosecutors. In his first national interview, set to air Friday night on Dateline NBC, Ogrod tells NBCâs Lester Holt how he was pressured to sign a confession filled with details he knew nothing about.
âI think that we would be stunned as a country to get a real understanding of how many people have been taken from their families, and put in prison for crimes they didn't commit,â says Dateline supervising producer Dan Slepian, who worked on the story, digging into what Slepian describes as âa thirty year old case with thousands and thousands of pages of documents.â
In our conversation, we talked about the details of this caseâand his podcast, 13 Alibis, which also featured a man wrongfully convicted of murder. âThis isnât an aberration. Itâs how the system works,â he told me.
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In Episode 15 of the podcast, I talk to Bill Kurtis, veteran anchorman and one of broadcastingâs most identifiable voices, familiar to viewers in Chicago, where he anchored newscasts at CBS owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV for decades alongside Walter Jacobson. Today, he can be heard on true crime shows like American Justice, Cold Case Files and American Justice. He was also the narrator of the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. If you donât watch movies or television, you can catch Kurtis as the announcer and scorekeeper of NPRâs Wait, Wait⌠Donât Tell Me.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standupkid.substack.comEpisode 15: Bill Kurtis, 'We Interrupt This Broadcast'
35m · PublishedVeteran anchorman Bill Kurtis has one of broadcastingâs most identifiable voices, familiar to viewers in Chicago, where he anchored newscasts at CBS owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV for decades alongside Walter Jacobson. Today, he can be heard on true crime shows like American Justice, Cold Case Files and American Justice. He was also the narrator of the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. If you donât watch movies or television, you can catch Kurtis as the announcer and scorekeeper of NPRâs Wait, Wait⌠Donât Tell Me.
Now Kurtis is adding a podcast to his credits, hosting We Interrupt This Broadcast alongside MSNBCâs Brian Williams. Each episode focuses on a major news eventâthe 9/11 attacks, the shooting of President Ronald Reagan, the death of Princess Dianaâas seen through the voices of the reporters, anchors, producers and crew who covered the stories in real time.
âIt show us how chasing the truth is hardâfinding it is even harder,â Kurtis told me. âIt gives us a whole new perspective on the story.â
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In Episode 14 of the podcast, I talked to Bill Kurtisâ podcast partner Brian Williams, the anchor of MSNBCâs The 11th Hour and a confessed geek about the history of broadcast news. We talked about We Interrupt This Broadcast and some of what Williams hopes to cover when the podcast returns for its second season.
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30m · PublishedAs the anchor of MSNBCâs nightly The 11th Hour, Brian Williams is no stranger to live coverage of major breaking news, and now heâs narrating a new podcast about broadcast news, We Interrupt This Broadcast, which tells each story through the voices of the broadcast journalists, producers, photographers and others who covered the story on that day.
Based on the book of the same name by writer Joe Garner, We Interrupt This Broadcast tells each story as it unfolded through the eyes of reporters, news anchors and the photographers, producers and technical crews that drop everything to cover major news. âYou know, I was there for some of these,â Williams told me. âAnd Iâve delved into all the audio, and Iâve sat in the studio and narrated them, and they still make my pulse race. They still make me emotional.â
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In episode 13 of the podcast, I spoke with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace on the 25th anniversary of the Fox News Sunday public affairs show.
âWhen I came on [in 2003], I wanted to put Fox News Sunday at the forefront of the conversation, that it would be taken as seriously and make as much if not more news than any of the other Sunday shows,â Wallace told me. âAnd I think weâve succeeded at that.â
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standupkid.substack.comEpisode 13: Chris Wallace, 'Fox News Sunday'
28m · PublishedThis weekend will mark the 25th anniversary of Fox News Sunday, the public affairs program which debuted April 28, 1996 with the late Tony Snow as host. Chris Wallace took over as host in 2003 and will mark the anniversary with a special edition of FNS, which airs Sunday mornings on Fox Broadcasting stations and later in the day on Fox News Channel.
âWhen I came on [in 2003], I wanted to put Fox News Sunday at the forefront of the conversation, that it would be taken as seriously and make as much if not more news than any of the other Sunday shows,â Wallace told me this week. âAnd I think weâve succeeded at that.â
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âUntil the world is vaccinated, no one is vaccinated,â said NBC News correspondent Cynthia McFadden. âThe virus will continue to spread. This pandemic could go on for another 7 years if we donât succeed in distributing the vaccine around the world.â
In Episode 12 of the podcast, I talked to McFadden, who recently traveled to Uganda, where she had exclusive access to the international teams working to bring Covid-19 vaccines to some of the most vulnerableâand remoteâcommunities on Earth. âWe got to see a small part of a very big puzzle,â McFadden said.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standupkid.substack.comEpisode 12: Cynthia McFadden, NBC News
37m · PublishedâUntil the world is vaccinated, no one is vaccinated,â said NBC News correspondent Cynthia McFadden. âThe virus will continue to spread. This pandemic could go on for another 7 years if we donât succeed in distributing the vaccine around the world.â
McFadden recently traveled to Copenhagen and Uganda, where she had exclusive access to the international teams working to bring Covid-19 vaccines to some of the most vulnerableâand remoteâcommunities on Earth. âWe got to see a small part of a very big puzzle,â McFadden said.
McFadden took two international flights, a soaking boat ride and then a three-hour drive alongside UNICEF teams carrying a small ice chest packed hopeâ40 vials of vaccine destined for health care workers in the Buvuma Islands of Uganda. Itâs the first time a broadcast news crew has seen the global distribution effort first hand, showing viewers of NBC Nightly News and Today exactly how difficult it is, both to access the vaccine and then to get it to remote communities in the worldâs poorest countries.
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In Episode 11 of the podcast, I talked to Politicoâs Eugene Daniels about race, journalism and covering the Biden-Harris Administration.
âWhen I go into the White House itâs not lost on me the reason that Iâm there is because of the hard work of my family members, the hard work of Black people in general, and the fact that slaves built that building.â
In our conversation, we talked about covering DC, being a Black man and a gay man working the White House beat, and about his experience in local news in Colorado, when a news executive told him his âvoice was too Black to be a full time reporter in Colorado Springs.â
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standupkid.substack.comEpisode 11: Eugene Daniels, Politico
33m · PublishedPolitico reporter Eugene Daniels says his grandmother, who was active in politics and the civil rights movement, instilled in him both a love of history and politics. She died in 2012, but he knows she would have loved seeing him step into his new role: covering Vice President Kamala Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and the First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden as part of Politicoâs White House team. Heâd also be one of the new writers producing Politicoâs iconic Playbook.
âWhen I go into the White House itâs not lost on me the reason that Iâm there is because of the hard work of my family members, the hard work of Black people in general, and the fact that slaves built that building.â
In our conversation, we talked about covering DC, being a Black man and a gay man working the White House beat, and about his experience in local news in Colorado, when a news executive told him his âvoice was too Black to be a full time reporter in Colorado Springs.â
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In Episode 10 of the podcast, I talked to NBC News correspondent Kate Snow, who recently talked to kids across the country about how theyâre coping after a year in pandemic lockdown. The kids told her: theyâre struggling. Stress around isolation and grappling with remote and hybrid learning has kids feeling disconnectedâand for some, feeling profound pain.
Snow wrote last year about the stress she felt when her husband fell ill with Covid, leading her to seek treatment with a therapist.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit standupkid.substack.com@standupkid conversations has 20 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 10:11:38. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 20th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 1st, 2024 15:15.