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Hard Fork found its story by changing the subject
A crypto-era pitch became a weekly guide to the AI age. Now The New York Times podcast faces a fresh experiment: keeping the conversation alive after its original hosts have left.
Casey Newton and the Art of Leaving the Platform
He built a publication to scrutinize the companies that govern online life. Now, after leaving one platform and one long-running podcast behind, Casey Newton is testing how much independence a journalist can carry into the AI age.
Casey Newton & Zoe Schiffer
Casey Newton and Zoe Schiffer are two of the most influential tech journalists working today. Newton founded Platformer, a newsletter covering social networks at the intersection of tech and democracy, co-hosts the Hard Fork podcast with the NYT, and broke landmark investigations into Facebook's content moderation crisis. Schiffer co-ran Platformer as managing editor, authored 'Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter' (Penguin Random House, 2024), and now serves as Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Together they shaped some of the most consequential tech journalism of the 2020s.