{"podcast":{"title":"what's this button do?","slug":"what-s-this-button-do-6698176","podcast_index_feed_id":6698176,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/dexdigi/","website_url":"https://dexdigi.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/78a711e2-fe03-4349-9b37-4f506cd136d7/wtbd-logo.jpg","author":"Dexter Thomas","episode_count":30,"summary":"technology for people who think they aren't nerds","last_synced_at":"2026-06-24T06:20:59.623023+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-this-button-do-6698176"},"episode":{"title":"$250M from Google ain’t gonna cut it: can journalists get paid? w/ Matt Pearce","slug":"250m-from-google-ain-t-gonna-cut-it-can-journalists-get-paid-w-matt-pearce","published_at":"2024-09-21T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-this-button-do-6698176/250m-from-google-ain-t-gonna-cut-it-can-journalists-get-paid-w-matt-pearce","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-this-button-do-6698176","url":"https://dexdigi.captivate.fm/episode/250m-from-google-aint-gonna-cut-it-can-journalists-get-paid-w-matt-pearce","audio_url":"https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e97c535a-345e-47a5-9f87-43e6f7aa95e7/CJPA-matt-pearce-episode.mp3","summary":"warning: you’re about to listen to two journalists talk about the news. But the news sucks! you say — so why should we care? Well, this $250 million deal might have just made it worse. Counterintuitive, but Matt Pearce (ex LA Times) has a pretty compelling argument. We talk about this, and AI, and a bunch of other stuff. Keep in mind that this is a pretty complicated topic, and there are some other viewpoints on this. For example, there’s this opposing stance: https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/the-california-journalism-preservation-act-would-do-more-harm-than-good-heres-how-the-state-might-better-help-news/ And on the other hand, there's Matt summarizing the situation, where he says 'hardly anyone won, except Google': https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/a-deep-dive-into-googles-shady-and And also this: https://mindandiron.substack.com/p/mind-and-iron-gavin-newsom-may-have There’s also Matt’s big spreadsheet on astroturfing, which we mention only briefly: https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/californias-sb-1327-and-the-big-tech You can find Matt Pearce at his newsletter, which I highly recommend: https://mattdpearce.substack.com Anyway, this is something a lot of people probably won’t even be aware of, because it’s a really boring topic. But I think this is going to be playing out repeatedly, soon. Stay in tune.","meta_description":"warning: you’re about to listen to two journalists talk about the news. But the news sucks! you say — so why should we care? Well, this $250 million deal…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2258,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-s-this-button-do-6698176/episodes/250m-from-google-ain-t-gonna-cut-it-can-journalists-get-paid-w-matt-pearce/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-this-button-do-6698176/250m-from-google-ain-t-gonna-cut-it-can-journalists-get-paid-w-matt-pearce.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}