03 Dec 2020

242 Liz Gannes | In the Room Where It Happens

Posted in podcast By pjadmin On December 3, 2020

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Reporter, Journalism Fellow at Stanford and Product Manager at Google, Liz Gannes joins the show to share her fascinating career journey. Liz has been a Silicon Valley-based business technology reporter since 2004, where she started her career at Red Herring. Since then, she has worked at the startup company, 60db, as well as the technology giant, Google. In this episode, Harry and Liz discuss the importance of keeping informed with local news, content consumption patterns, and the work Liz is doing in News Initiatives at Google.

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What We Covered:

  • 06:00 – Liz Gannes joins the podcast to discuss her career trajectory and where her passion for journalism started
  • 14:36 – Liz shares her thoughts on the impact social media has had on society and, particular, how we consume news
  • 17:54 – Liz talks about her podcast origin story and how she consumes content
  • 22:12 – Liz opens up on how she earned a fellowship at Stanford University and the work she’s at 60db and Google
  • 34:45 – Liz speaks to her passion for local news and the importance of these local outlets
  • 44:39 – Liz provides best practices and strategies for those looking to start a podcast
  • 50:43 – What is something that Liz has changed his mind about recently and the most misunderstood thing about Liz
  • 53:07 – Harry thanks Liz for joining the show, and let’s listeners know where they can connect with her

Tweetables

I wouldn’t say I was trying to create technology. I was just interested in it as a story.

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Having a dad who’s a reporter can be a little hard sometimes. I feel like, as a kid, he was always finding the storyline, running through things that I thought were large problems that he thought he could really simply. And…

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I would call myself a fairly early podcast junkie. I’ve been excited to see how podcasts have expanded because in the early days they related a lot to the same kind of topics that were for that early adopter audience.

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At a startup you can dream up ideas, make them come true – engineering willing – and have two people use them. And at Google, you can dream up ideas, make endless decks about what they could be and potentially be able to do them…

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Local [news] is something that we value very highly and are working to understand how we can help those local outlets, how we can recognize the new and emerging local outlets and how we can just connect our users to them.

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That is my pitch is that your podcast doesn’t need to be two hours long, news or not.

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Here’s my hill to die on. Everyone is a news reader. Everyone’s interested in the news. I know that the news can be overwhelming and that you want to turn it off sometimes and look inward. But, knowing what’s going on in the…

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Links Mentioned

*FullCast Website *

Podcast Junkies Junkies Facebook Group

Liz’s LinkedIn

Liz’s Twitter

Link to Molly of Denali Podcast

Link to Rabbit Hole Podcast 

Link to Season of the Witch Book 

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