Diversity Hire
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -A podcast about being "POC" in media. Hosted by @arjununcle & @krevinlorenzo
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Episode 59 -Longform Podcast with Camille Bromley
November 05, 2021 11:05 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 59. This is our last interview for a while, and we decided to talk to our friend Camille Bromley, who is one of our favorite magazine editors. We talked about why magazines still matter, even when working at them is incredibly painful. We think you guys will really like this conversation and have so enjoyed all the conversations we’ve had so far. Thank you (REALLY) for listening. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscriber...
Episode 58 - Whatsup with Kevin & Arjun
October 22, 2021 12:45 - 17 minutesToday, Kevin & Arjun talk about nihilistic tendencies with regards to Ben Simmons, 1 on 1 hangouts, The Believer, and our own podcast. We’ll have a guest next week! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit diversityhire.substack.com
Episode 57 - Get On Their Level with Ian F. Blair
October 15, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 57 of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Ian F. Blair, the editor of the LA Times’ weekend magazine Image. Our conversation covered: keeping a low profile online, why the fuck do we keep making magazines, how not to make a bland milquetoast publication, telling the story of a community, Laker fandom, and much more. Kevin and Arjun talked about not understanding the Bad Art Friend discourse and why Franklin Park is the lamest party location in all of New York...
Episode 56: Getting Acknowledged with Tristan Ahtone
October 08, 2021 12:59 - 1 hourHello and welcome! We are back from the hiatus. We talked to journalist and editor Tristan Ahtone about how badly the mainstream media covers Native issues and what can be done to make it better, how the edit a magazine like a painter, the vast and weird world of the Southwest, getting to know a community rather parachuting in for one-off reports, the cruel history of land grant universities and whether and the possibility of reparations, and much more. Kevin and Arjun also deliver a sta...
Episode 55: Pod Forsaken with Nick Quah
August 13, 2021 11:30 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 55 of Diversity Hire. We are proud to present our state of the pod with a podcast reporting legend and small business owner Nick Quah. We talked about the past, present, and future of the medium we all participate in, vibes vs audio fidelity, why narrative podcasts are annoying, why we keep listening to podcasts we know are bad for us, why we pod (friends!!), and much more. Also, Kevin and Arjun are going to take a month off from the pod! See you guys in Sep...
Episode 54 - The Minority Report featuring Dean Kissick
August 06, 2021 11:35 - 1 hourHello and welcome to Diversity Hire. Today is a special episode, a pilot for a potential pay-walled project we are thinking of calling The Minority Report. Our inaugural guest is art world maven Dean Kissick. Lots of tea was spilled about the origins of current hot neighborhoods, E-flux talks, autofiction, the SCENE, working out and staying healthy, and why fiction is the hardest art of all. Kevin and Arjun talk about the misplaced nostalgia of current partying, being grumpy, and whiteboy b...
Episode 53 - The Objectivity Line with Wesley Lowery
July 30, 2021 11:09 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 53 of Diversity Hire. Today’s guest is Wesley Lowery, who is a journalist at CBS News for 60 Minutes and a contributing editor at the Marshall Project. We talked about the ways public humiliation can be used to create change inside newsrooms, the publishing power afforded to journalists via social media, the myth of objectivity, and what virtues journalism should instead model itself after, being profiled by Ben Smith, and much more. This episode was part of our...
Episode 51 - Finding Your Voice with B.A. Parker
July 09, 2021 13:00 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 52 of Diversity Hire. Longtime listeners will be glad to know this is the episode with the BEST AUDIO QUALITY we’ve ever achieved. That’s because we got a professional podcast producer to talk to us: B.A. Parker of the Cut. We had a really fun and wide-ranging conversation about Columbia grad programs, having NO JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE!!!, developing one’s podcast/radio voice, the presumed (white) audience for podcasting, and much more. Thanks for listening! This...
Episode 51 - 1 Year Anniversary with Kevin & Arjun
July 02, 2021 11:48 - 1 hourHello and welcome to an old episode of the Diversity Hire. It’s our podcast’s first birthday and we’re tired. We are busy at work on our collaboration with Montez Press Radio, so we decided to revisit an episode we released on July 1, 2020: Our conversation with Jay Caspian Kang. Pretty much everything Jay has said about the cynical way the media implicated itself during the uprisings of last summer came true. Anyway….thanks for bearing with us and we are excited to bring you a new episo...
Episode 50 - Getting Messy with Max Tani
June 25, 2021 13:13 - 1 hour(Sorry if you’re receiving this for a second time, there were technical difficulties) Hello and welcome to Episode 50 of Diversity Hire. Thanks for making it this far with us. We have a special guest for you guys this week: Max Tani of The Daily Beast. WE 👏GOT👏 MESSY👏 A few of the topics include: Who invented the concept of Dimes Square, going to parties, Google docs full of gossip waiting to become news, hating DC, the ups and downs and ups of the media labor movement, our thoughts on B*n...
E49 - Talking Trash with Arit John
June 18, 2021 11:50 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 49 of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Arit John, who is a lifestyle reporter for the LA Times. We talked about the surprising similarities between politicians and Tik Tok stars, covering the 2016 campaign, how awful the three media capitals - NYC, LA, DC - truly are, appearing on C-SPAN, and much more. Kevin and Arjun talked about the end of Gemini season and a special birthday. Thanks for listening. Arit’s work: Some Democratic Candidates Face a Reckoni...
Episode 48 - Let That Motherfucker Burn
June 11, 2021 12:36 - 34 minutesHello and welcome to episode 48 of Diversity Hire Kevin and Arjun dished on: boat parties, roof parties, gallery parties, the Deans list (Baquet, Blunt, & Kissick), the NBA playoffs, friends leaving NYC for LA, giving up on veganism, the A**a W*nt*ur picket, Bugbee/Sicha Freaky Friday, the future of the Styles desk, dating, practicing ad reads for when we get bought, our new favorite coffee startup, and a whole lot more. Thanks for listening!! This is a public episode. If you would like...
Episode 47 - Nothing But The Truth with Tyler R. Tynes
June 04, 2021 10:12 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 47 of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Tyler Tynes who is the staff sports writer at GQ. Our conversation covered annihilating objectivity in order to cover athletes and the politics of sports more honestly, Tyler’s stint as a local beat reporter in Atlantic City, the commodification of protest, why sports reporting always seems to lack a much-needed dose of nuance, and much more. Kevin and Arjun talk about how it sucks to be busy as the season of Summer Friday...
Episode 46 - Fuck Zuck with Julia Carrie Wong
May 28, 2021 10:14 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 46 of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Julia Carrie Wong, who is a reporter at the Guardian US. Much of our conversation focuses on Julia’s incredible reporting on Facebook’s abuses of power and oversight all around the world. If you wanted to hear about just how evil Facebook is—from its colonial disposition to its thirst for global power—this is the podcast for you. But we also talked about the state of freelance journalism, the long shadow of the Karen mem...
Episode 45 - What Even Is Sports with Andrew Keh
May 21, 2021 11:39 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 45 of Diversity Hire. Today’s guest was New York Times sports reporter Andrew Keh. We talked about the meaning of sports and competition in our times, how bad the food in Berlin is, what it’s like to travel around the world to cover every kind of sport imaginable, how Andrew practices a kind of reporting that looks beyond boxscores, the Olympics and protest, and much more. Kevin and Arjun talked about the arrival of shorts weather, complicated feelings about ex...
Episode 44 - Fight This Generation with Terry Nguyen
May 14, 2021 08:57 - 1 hourHello and welcome to our 44th episode. Today we talked to Terry Nguyen, who is a reporter at the Goods by Vox. Our conversation covered generational politics and why they are rooted in whiteness, the feeling of being caught between generations (AKA cusp-fucked), talking to our Asian American elders, memes, crushes, and much more. Arjun and Kevin talked about the narcissism of differences that define young millennials and elder millennials and how the only real difference between generations...
Episode 43 - Pivoting with Justin Ellis
May 07, 2021 10:30 - 1 hourHello and welcome to 43 of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Justin Ellis, who is the special projects editor at Defector and is also at work on a book about Black life in Minneapolis. We talked about reporting from his hometown in the last year, what it was like to be at the courthouse when the decision from the Chauvin trial was made public, the unsavory and exhausting but sometimes necessary task of being asked to report on your identity and race, how reporting on the media during the...
Episode 42 - Duality of Horniness with Allison P. Davis
April 30, 2021 11:30 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 42 of Diversity Hire. (This episode is rated M for Mature. Listener discretion is advised.) Today we talked to New York Magazine’s Allison P. Davis, America’s greatest commentator on sex, love, dating, and the myriad ways those forces intersect with power and celebrity. Our conversation covered Allison’s incredible skills as a host, dating during COVID, the different definitions and expressions of being horny, the life and death of the celebrity profile, celibac...
Episode 41 - Getting There with Joshua Hunt
April 23, 2021 11:21 - 1 hourHello and welcome to the 41st episode of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Joshua Hunt, a globe-trotting freelance reporter, who originally hails from Petersburg, Alaska. We talked about Josh’s winding path to journalism, the consequences of the personal essay economy, writing from an Indigenous perspective, how and why first-person experience can affect reporting, ageism, hype beasts and sneakerheads, why you shouldn’t wear Nike, and a lot more. This was a really fun conversation an...
Episode 40 - Parasocial Anxiety with Arjun and Kevin
April 16, 2021 10:30 - 22 minutesHello and welcome to episode 40 of Diversity Hire. We had planned to release a wonderful interview (which will come out next week), but instead, we decided to give ourselves some breathing room and talked about media, perception, and being seen/scene. No guest this week, just vibes, mostly bad ones! Twitter sucks (Kevin just deactivated!!) Work sucks. And most of all Kevin and Arjun hate being perceived right now. So pull up a chair, and listen to our 20-minute rant about why we need a bre...
Episode 39 - Finding Our Humanity with Siddhartha Mahanta
April 09, 2021 10:49 - 1 hourHello and welcome to Episode 39. To all the new listeners who found our podcast from Camille Bromley’s CJR profile, welcome. To our Day Ones, welcome back. Today we talked to Siddhartha Mahanta, who is an editor at the New York Times Opinion section. We talked about the oft-ignored humanity of journalism, the journalist’s commitment to be humane, why publications need to stand up to bullies, why writers hate the dreaded ‘nut graf,’ the fine art of editing, corny Indian-Americans, and much ...
Episode 38 - Being Optimistic with Delia Cai
April 02, 2021 10:12 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 38! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Today we talked to Delia Cai, who is the proprietor of the wonderful Substack Deez Links and a growth and trends editor at Buzzfeed. We talked about go-to orders at Dimes, content strategy, why she’s optimistic about the future of the media, the pernicious feeling of needing to catch up to your peers, knowing when things reach their natural end, what it’s like to be in the Substack game, and much more. Arjun and ...
Episode 37 - Vibing with Doreen St. Felix
March 26, 2021 12:18 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 37 of Diversity Hire. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Today’s guest is Doreen St. Felix, who is the New Yorker’s television critic. We have been looking forward to this conversation since we first started the pod, and we think you guys will enjoy everything we talked about, which ran the gamut from the art of ambiguity and ambivalence, when we figured out what a critic even was, finding a place in white-dominated spaces, the concessions we make to ...
Episode 36 - Asian Invisibility with Chris Gayomali
March 19, 2021 10:33 - 1 hourHello and welcome to P̶o̶p̶u̶l̶i̶s̶t̶ ̶T̶i̶p̶s̶ Episode 36 of Diversity Hire. It has been a tough and trying week and we weren’t sure if we should even do an episode this week. But we’re so happy that our guest, Chris Gayomali, was down to talk with us. Chris is an articles editor at GQ. Fifty weeks ago, Chris wrote an article for GQ titled “The New Fear for Asian-Americans Going Out in Public.” It’s surreal to think about what has and, sadly, hasn’t changed since March 2020. In today’s ep...
Episode 35- What Is Journalism with Tommy Craggs
March 12, 2021 11:30 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 35 of Diversity Hire. Today’s guest was Tommy Craggs, and we had a rollicking conversation about an era of media we are still trying to understand: the reign of Gawker. We dove into Tommy’s time as the editor Deadspin and later the executive editor of Gakwer and what both of those sites contributed to what we now call THE DISCOURSE. We also talked about the halcyon days of NY media, why blogging sucks, arbiters of bad faith and the climate around cultural polit...
Episode 34 - The Biggest Story in America with Emmanuel Felton
March 05, 2021 11:35 - 59 minutesHello and welcome to Episode 34 of Diversity Hire. Today’s guest was Emmanuel Felton, who is an investigative reporter at Buzzfeed. We talked about his experiences covering education and segregation in the South and in Boston, why the identity and biases of journalists matter, especially when covering race and education, what it was like to talk to Black police officers who fought back rioters at the capitol on 1/6, abolishing Ivy League schools, and much more. Kevin and Arjun also talk abo...
Episode 33 - Stilliberal with Kevin and Arjun
February 26, 2021 11:21 - 32 minutesHello and welcome to episode 33 of Diversity Hire. No guest this week, so go ahead and 30-second-fast-forward through this entire episode. Kevin and Arjun ramble incessantly about how you can’t mourn the loss of something that was already dead (Dimes Square), the problem with “diversity” in the New York Times Diversity Report, how white people need to stop telling other white people what is and isn’t cultural appropriation, and more. If you like this episode please tweet at us about it beca...
Episode 32 - Growing Old with Hua Hsu
February 19, 2021 11:54 - 1 hourHello and welcome to our longest episode of Diversity Hire yet!! On our 32nd episode, we were honored to have a conversation with Asian America's foremost tastemaker, the one and only Hua Hsu. This barnburner of a conversation covered Julius Randle and the Knicks, how campus politics has changed since Hua was in college, what it was like to teach one of our podcast co-hosts, being washed and making zines, being a public school person, West Coast vs East Coast aesthetic and intellectual expe...
Episode 31 - Unsettling Opinions with Osita Nwanevu
February 12, 2021 07:00 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 31 of Diversity Hire. Today’s guest was Osita Nwanevu a staff writer at The New Republic. We talked about why we are all sick of talking about cancel culture, the shitty incentives of the online writing economy, reactionary liberals, the ups-and-downs of elite media, and much more. Kevin and Arjun also talk about one podcast host’s grievous injury and why you should go to urgent care when you get hurt. Thanks for listening! * Arjun & Kevin talk about Arjun’s ...
Episode 30 - Everyone’s a Critic with Maya Phillips
February 05, 2021 11:03 - 1 hourWelcome to the 30th episode of Diversity Hire! Today’s guest was New York Times critic-at-large Maya Phillips. We talked about the pleasure and terror that comes with fandom, the perils of colorblind casting, the role a critic’s identity and politics play in the way they evaluate art, why there need to be more editors of color, and much more. Kevin and Arjun also talk about the novel the media elites are all reading and the media elites who are listening to the podcast. You can buy Maya’s f...
Episode 30 - Everyone’s a Critic with Maya Phillips
February 05, 2021 11:03 - 1 hourWelcome to the 30th episode of Diversity Hire! Today’s guest was New York Times critic-at-large Maya Phillips. We talked about the pleasure and terror that comes with fandom, the perils of colorblind casting, the role a critic’s identity and politics play in the way they evaluate art, why there need to be more editors of color, and much more. Kevin and Arjun also talk about the novel the media elites are all reading and the media elites who are listening to the podcast. You can buy Maya’s ...
Episode 29 - The "Latin" Trap with Isabelia Herrera
January 29, 2021 10:48 - 58 minutesHello and welcome to the 29th episode of Diversity Hire. Today's guest was Isabelia Herrera (Pitchfork, Remezcla, MoMA PS1 Warm Up). We talked about explaining facets of one’s culture to a dumb Anglo-American audience, toxic media workplaces, why Latinx and POC are similarly toothless terms, and Kevin’s attempt to DJ at the next edition of Warm Up. Arjun and Kevin also talk about the pay transparency discourse and living in New York when you make NO MONEY. Thanks for listening! * Arjun & ...
Episode 28 - Guillotine the Gatekeepers with Iva Dixit
January 22, 2021 11:28 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 28 of Diversity Hire. Today’s guest is Iva Dixit, who is the audience editor of the New York Times Magazine. Previously she has held positions at The New Yorker, Newsweek, and the Economist. We talked about being an immigrant in the media, the reasons why most social media departments are filled with women and people of color, how the nerd culture mindset has infiltrated the antiracist discourse, becoming a grown-up who buys antiques, and more. Also, Arjun and Iv...
Episode 27 - Group Chatting with Donnie Kwak
January 15, 2021 10:00 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 27 of Diversity Hire. Today's guest is Donnie Kwak who is the General Manager of Complex. We talked about how Donnie survived decades of many media pivots, music blogging in the early 2000s, why Asian American Twitter sucks, the vexed relationship ASAM folks have with other marginalized peoples, the plague of corniness, and much more. Kevin and Arjun also talk about the James Harden trade...and Kevin’s podcast listening habits. Thanks for listening! * Arjun & K...
Episode 26 - Coup and the Gang
January 08, 2021 10:55 - 34 minutesWelcome to 2021 aka the 26th episode of Diversity Hire. Today on this guestless episode, Kevin and Arjun talk about what the hell happened on Capital Hill yesterday, how the internet and the media working in concert destroyed discourse, why having an opinion sucks, why you should save all your thoughts for the group chat, and why, amidst it all, Kevin is having a good 2021 so far. Thanks for listening! We’ll have a guest next week we promise. This is a public episode. If you would like ...
Episode 25 - We’re Not Spokespeople with Rachelle Hampton
December 18, 2020 11:25 - 1 hourHello and welcome to the 25th episode of Diversity Hire: Our season 1 finale!! Today we talked to the wonderful Rachelle Hampton, who is a staff writer at Slate. Our conversation covered why you should appreciate your fact-checker, the psychic toll of being a diversity hire, Charlamagne Tha God and white America’s desire for one Black voice, the experience of being a Black journalist in the last decade, and much more. Kevin and Arjun meanwhile didn’t talk about much besides the snow day that...
Episode 25 - We’re Not Spokespeople with Rachelle Hampton
December 18, 2020 11:25 - 1 hourHello and welcome to the 25th episode of Diversity Hire: Our season 1 finale!! Today we talked to the wonderful Rachelle Hampton, who is a staff writer at Slate. Our conversation covered why you should appreciate your fact-checker, the psychic toll of being a diversity hire, Charlamagne Tha God and white America’s desire for one Black voice, the experience of being a Black journalist in the last decade, and much more. Kevin and Arjun meanwhile didn’t talk about much besides the snow day that ...
Episode 24 - The Diversity Tribunal with Arjun & Kevin & Guests
December 11, 2020 11:35 - 45 minutesHello and welcome to Episode 24. This is Arjun. My head hurts. I feel like I’ve been in nonstop pain this entire year. Yes, it’s because of the pandemic, and we cannot forget the unmanageable political anxiety that continues to fester in Biden’s America. But on top of it all, the question that has prolonged this never-ending migraine is: How can I fix the lack of diversity in the media? Over the course of this podcast’s existence, we’ve presented this mind-melting noggin noodler to some o...
Episode 23 - Reviving the Labor Beat with Lauren Kaori Gurley
December 04, 2020 10:52 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 23 of Diversity Hire. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Today we talked to one of the best labor reporters in the game—Lauren Kaori Gurley. We talked about why labor reporting was once (and still is to some) an underappreciated beat, how race informs the way we talk about workplaces, her run-ins with the feds while reporting on meatpacking workers, why unions are GOOD, and much more. Thanks for listening! * Arjun & Kevin talk about the upcoming layo...
Episode 22 - Interrogating Whiteness with Rafia Zakaria
November 27, 2020 11:43 - 1 hourHello and welcome to the twenty-second episode of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Rafia Zakaria, who is a lawyer, activist, and columnist for Dawn and the Baffler. This was a very spicy EP! We talked about white supremacy in second-wave feminism, “allies of whiteness” in the media and politics, Kamela Harris’ place in the diaspora, how Rafia writes for both audiences in Pakistan and in the states, and much more. Kevin and Arjun also talk about recent articles from friends of the pod - J...
Episode 21 - Critiquing Open Debaters with Gabe Schneider
November 20, 2020 05:32 - 54 minutesListen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Hello and welcome to episode 21 of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Gabe Schneider, the assistant managing editor Vote Beat and the co-founder of The Objective, a Substack newsletter that focuses on media criticism and covering communities ignored by mainstream journalism. We talked to Gabe about the Substack economy, what it was like to publish a rebuttal of the Harpers letter, what’s the deal with ‘open debaters’ who are deathly afraid of ca...
Episode 20 - Abolishing Tech with Edward Ongweso Jr.
November 13, 2020 09:20 - 1 hourListen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Hello and welcome to our 20th episode of Diversity Hire. Today's guest is tech writer and Vice/Motherboard staffer Edward Ongweso Jr. We talked to Edward about living a post-Prop 22 world, his winding path to the media which includes stops in labor organizing, politics, and other random gigs, the ways in which hollowness of diversity in the media overlaps with the tech industry, how to center tech reporting on workers, and much more. Kevin and...
Episode 19 - Election Special with Special Guests
November 06, 2020 05:41 - 1 hourHello and welcome to Diversity Hire election headquarters in Brooklyn, NY—the bellwether district for media idiots. Today Arjun and Kevin invited some special correspondents—Maya Binyam and Gaby Del Valle—to talk about exit polls, post-election narratives, and DATA. We also talked about the usual things: Why POC is a meaningless term, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and gossip. Enjoy this special episode! And thank you for listening. * Arjun’s disclaimer (0:00) * Kevin & Arjun reporting live...
Episode 18 - The Pie Saga with Clio Chang
October 30, 2020 07:01 - 1 hourHello and welcome to Episode 18 of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Clio Chang about how we balance loving the work of reporting and the undeniable shittiness of the media world/life generally, why unionizing is not just great for your workplace but also your social life, how our generation’s work lives have been shaped by layoffs and how she became an expert in the unemployment beat, and much more. Kevin and Arjun also talked about Chris Christie’s Cameogate, fellow Substacker Glenn Gree...
Episode 18 - Chekhov's Pie with Clio Chang
October 30, 2020 07:01 - 1 hourHello and welcome to Episode 18 of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Clio Chang about how we balance loving the work of reporting and the undeniable shittiness of the media world/life generally, why unionizing is not just great for your workplace but also your social life, how our generation’s work lives have been shaped by layoffs and how she became an expert in the unemployment beat, and much more. Kevin and Arjun also talked about Chris Christie’s Cameogate, fellow Substacker Glenn Gre...
Episode 17 - Nobody Reads Art Criticism With Rahel Aima
October 23, 2020 07:00 - 1 hourHello and welcome to episode 17 of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to freelance critic, editor, and writer Rahel Aima, who lives between Dubai and Brooklyn. We talked about the uncertain future of art criticism post the Covid lockdowns, the role art criticism used to play in the art market, why museums and galleries and most cultural institutions continue to be evil year after year, the misunderstood heyday of aughts NYC little magazines, what it's like to be a journalist beholden the whim...
Episode 16 - Class Diversity & The End of Asian America with Madeline Leung Coleman
October 16, 2020 07:00 - 1 hourHello and welcome to Episode 16 of Diversity Hire. Today we talked to Madeline Leung Coleman, writer and editor based in New York City, who writes about art, immigration, race, labor, food. We discussed the need for both class diversity and non-NYC perspectives in the media, why liberal arts colleges suck, the limits of a term like Asian American, and hapa pride. Also, Kevin and Arjun talked about autumn in NYC and Kevin's OOO vibe this week. Thanks for listening! * Arjun & Kevin talk a...
Episode 15 - Cool Brown Kids Club with Meher Ahmad
October 02, 2020 04:00 - 1 hourHello and welcome to Episode 15 of Diversity Hire. Apple Podcasts Spotify Today we talked to Meher Ahmad a senior editor at Rest of World, an international nonprofit journalism organization that focuses on global stories about technology and culture. We discussed Meher’s time as a hardboiled kid journalist in Indianapolis, how she went from a blogger to a globe-trotting video journalist and foreign correspondent, what it feels like to be a fish out of water as a brown ex-pat journalist a...
Episode 14 - Log Off with Kevin & Arjun
September 24, 2020 04:52 - 52 minutesWassup...(not hello and welcome) to a guestless episode of the pod. Today Arjun and Kevin talked about why Arjun left Twitter, a psychoanalytic method of understanding social media (courtesy of Max Read in Bookforum), student journalists vs. old school journalists, why journalism school is a waste of time, how hopeless we feel about the future of the media, and much more. We also have some more clips for you guys. We'll have a guest next week. Enjoy the episode! * Arjun and Kevin try s...
Episode 13 - Everybody's Really Weird with Gaby Del Valle
September 17, 2020 04:03 - 1 hourHello and welcome to Episode 13 of Diversity Hire. Apple Podcasts Spotify Today we talked to Gaby Del Valle a freelance immigration reporter and the co-author of BORDER/LINES, a newsletter about immigration policy. We discussed how Gaby connects with her sources, the prejudices publications have around her beat, how media people were not cool in high school, the pros and cons of starting a Substack newsletter (you should subscribe to Gaby’s!!), and how she balances grad school, freelanci...