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Katie Couric

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“Right, exactly. It's all about you. It's going to be a case. Not about me, I don't think. But you could consult for sure. You seem to know a thing or two about that. When you look at all that, though, they are moving rather heavily. They are. You kn”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But any Two questions, though. Netflix just paid Ryan Murphy or Chanda Ryan a million dollars. And then Shonda Rhimes has a similar. Obviously, Apple just invested in Aris Witherswin thing that's very expensive.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's a great name. You know, I think they paid a lot of money to come up with oath, whatever. But anyway, so I think that, you know, I think these companies are maybe they'll wake up and smell the coffee, but I think they're just very lumbering and slow. And so at some point, ironically, right? But at some point, you want to do quality work and make sure that someone values what you do and make sure that they hopefully want to get it out into the world, which is increasingly fragmented, by the way.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I think you're right. I think they just didn't understand what it required. And I would try to say, hey, let me bring this person in to run media who really gets it. And they just, I don't know. It was strange.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They hired a lot of people, so it was more than a press, it was something, you know what I mean? Like, that was what was interesting. The whole, I just was, it was sort of a sidelight, and I don't think it was even as cynical as just a press release. I think they thought they wanted it. No, I think you're right”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you know who is I don't think they meant it in the first place. No, no, no. I think the beer they never intended to do it, but it wasn't even, it sounded good.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then get these interviews as a business proposition. It's not like I'm all that in a bag of chips, but like if you are going to invest in somebody like me who has a quote-unquote brand, which I hate that, but you know, who is recognizable and has a connection with people, why not leverage that? It was bizarre. I don't think.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, Rox does. We try to, but we don't own the pipes. You know what I mean? I do think sometimes when I talk to Evan Spiegel, I do think, well, at least he gets the concepts around it. Like the idea that you differentiate or you curate. And I think that's the question is the curation. And I think one of the things that I found fascinating from your tenure at Yahoo, besides all the other things I was writing about there, was they made this enormously high profile hire, and you are. It was a big giant hire that they made. And then they literally hit you anywhere they could hit you. It was so weird.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think that's why I think the secret sauce are people who are technologically savvy, but also respect and care about storytelling. And the company that I think combines those two things Is going to win the day. And I haven't really found it yet. Have you? Well, I guess not going to win away.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not even no respect. It's as if it's anything. Not even that. It's really weird. It's like, oh, it's just another thing they're pushing through the system, essentially.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, no. I wasn't paying. I did bring someone in who was really an expert on micro-targeting because, you know, I would say to him, how can my stuff get seen more? And I would, you know, say to the Yahoo folks, can we please do a newsletter? I'll totally push out everybody's content. I'll make sure everyone sees Matt Vai's column, or I'll make sure that people see Jose's fashion thing. Because they hired a lot of people. Yeah, they hired some big names. And yet, you know, they're in the witness protection program. So I said, let me help you help them help us help everybody.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, they didn't put it on the front page, or they didn't really know how to. I mean, even now, they really don't have very good distributions. They didn't really know how to market things properly. They didn't know how to take quality and make it scalable.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That would take. And I just think she had a lot of other things on her plate in fairness. And so I wouldn't say it was unhappy marriage, but it was certainly not very fulfilling for me because I had all this great content. I was getting big interviews and it was sort of like a tree falling in the forest.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I thought, you know, I thought, yeah, I saw the world changing. I saw people consuming information. I saw this pipeline, whether, you know, direct disintermediation or using these pipes to reach people as something that was incredibly promising. And I thought, Yahoo, I said to Marissa Meyer, I said, do you want to be known as the company that serves up stories about the boy who lived on ramen noodles for 13 years? Or do you want to kind of have really important, interesting, substantive interviews? Do you want to educate and enlighten people? Do you want to raise the bar? And, you know, it doesn't mean you can't have the ramen noodle story, but you could do maybe a high low thing like they do in fashion. You know, you wear a sweater from birch dors and jeans from J. Crew, whatever. So she seemed to be open, but I don't think she was ever sort of understood the commitment.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think it was a really interesting experience. I think that, you know, I think the real issue is many of these tech companies, I mean, it's what we were talking about earlier. They are not media companies. They do not care deeply about stories, about content, about true connection. I think they care about widgets and gadgets and delivery systems, but they aren't really super interested in the vegetable soup that's running through the pipes. And I think for me, it was just a bit of a culture clash. I think that The problems, the challenges of making sure people got good content was just not high on their priority list.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Embarrassed to ask on Apple podcasts, Google play music, wherever you listen to podcasts. That's too embarrassed to ask, see you there. We're here with Katie Curic. We've been talking about a range of things. Katie obviously is the famous, most famous anchor person. No, I said. Yes, you are. You work for every network. And Yahoo, you're going to tell me Yahoo. What happened?”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, when we get back, we're going to talk about Katie's time at Yahoo and how I'm going to go out in a giant cloud of something. Anyway, we get back. I also want to tell you about Too Embarrassed to Ask my other podcast, which I host with Lauren Good from The Verge. That's me. I'm actually the boss of the podcast. All right, okay, fine. Every Friday we answer your questions about tech, Lauren, who did we talk to this week? Bossy Lauren. We talked to Sophia Amaruso. You might know her as the founder of NastyGal, but she's also the founder of Girl Boss Media, but they're dropping the media, and she's the host of the Girl Boss radio podcast on iTunes. Sophia, thanks so much for joining us this week. What did we talk about? Oh gosh. The politics of the word girl bossodomist myself talked about the future, talked about going bankrupt, getting divorced, all kinds of stuff. It's about your media company and girl boss, media, or slash girl boss, because media is really limiting and what I'm building, which is. It's like Oprah for millennials. Sophia, thank you for coming. It was a great discussion. We hope you go listen to it. You can find too.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we're going to talk about that more because you talked to James DeMoore and others for one of your things that I was talking on. Anyway, we're here with Katie Curic. We are talking about all kinds of things. We're jumping from thing to thing, but that's why we're so fascinating to everybody, including ourselves.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really? No, no, but I'm going to go. I agree with you 100%. And I do think the internet is helping remove some of those barriers in terms of giving people a pathway to education and exposing them to ideas that they'd never be exposed to otherwise.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'm about to piss everyone off. I think at the end of my career is going to be one big disaster. Really? No, no, but you're just going to go out like you're going to go like a Roman candle, Katie. I'm going out big and ugly. Finish up this section. One of the things I think is what I think about when I think about these ideas around not accepting people in this country and around them keeping it in open borders and things like that in order to do this is that there is a like including around the issues of diversity too like not bringing, not thinking bigger there is a I have this vision in my head of a small girl in Afghanistan who knows how to solve cancer it's in her brain like who is going to be the one that does it who will never get there because of all kinds of issues either immigration or discrimination or whatever there there are we don't know who hasn't been able to invent things because of the barriers we put in people's way that we could remove and create a better place and I know it sounds like sort of pie in the sky”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. The people Right, and the problem is, I think one of the things we can get at diversity in the next section, but I do need to talk to you about Yahoo. I need to understand that I also want to talk about that.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Jobs that have Who knows? Thank you. Thank you, President Kirk. But they can't even decide on lunch. They can't pass a Dreamers Act. This is like, for example, the Dreamers Act thing is just driving me crazy because it's literally an advertisement to the rest of the world that we don't like innovation. We don't like innovative people. We don't like people who work harder. It is such a message to the rest of the world, which, again, we have, the technology and innovation in this country has been fueled by immigrants. No matter how you slice it, people coming in, fresh ideas, fresh thinking.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think what's hard, Kara, is you know, these are generational, traditional jobs that have been passed on. It is part of certain people's DNA. So we have to help them rethink their whole thinking. We have to rethink education, rethink all the different possibilities and how from the get-go, from pre-K on, we start orienting people toward the jobs of the future.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To be And where it's going because some of these jobs you don't even, I mean, some of the jobs, there is a great story in the New York Times recently about Sweden that they were doing, robots are doing mining, essentially. Right. And all kinds of, why should people, like this whole thing about Kentucky going back to coal mining, people probably shouldn't coal mine. It's very dangerous. There's certain jobs, wrote jobs that maybe people shouldn't do anymore. And it wasn't good for people in the first place. So why just have them there when robots can do it better?”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's, yeah, I think it's all of the above, but you're right. It's very frustrating that people are just kind of have their head in the sand about this. Zoe Baird is working very hard on this thing called Skillful, and she's working with Governor Hickenlooper in Colorado to try to come up with a way to retrain and especially displaced workers. But I think our whole education system needs to be re-”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I was like, oh, wow, that's interesting because people are going to create this sort of Brazil-like situation where there's very poor and very rich. And that's going to be, we've got a really, my question is, who's thinking about it? Who among our is it the tech companies whose responsibilities? Is it the tech companies? Is it government? Is it citizens?”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not just weight. It's like who is thinking of it? I don't want to say, okay, there's not going to be better jobs in the future, but what are we going to do about it? One of the things that Nelly just interviewed Robert Reich, who was the former labor secretary. And one of the things he said in this interview, they did a New York Times thing on AI, it was an event. And one of the things that I thought was the best quote that came out of it was, you were either, this is universal, she was asking universal basic income, which is you pay people essentially when jobs get lost. And it's, you know, a lot of, it's very controversial. It feels like communism a little bit. You know what I mean? It's questionable, but it's one of the ideas of how to deal with this joblessness and eventual joblessness. He said you either are going to pay then these numbers to pay people to not work, essentially, or you're going to pay to bulletproof your Tesla.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It definitely is. Jay Williams also wrote a great book based on a Wall Street Journal piece that she, no, Harvard Business Review article called Just Called White Working Class, which talks a lot about cultural class cluelessness and cultural condescension and all this stuff I highly recommend.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so So, what is the solution here? I don't know because I got the inspiration from doing that series from Mark Andreessen, who've been arguing for decades now. He and I argue about all kinds of things. But one of the things he was talking about was that it's like the farming to manufacturing. And definitely. Except that that happened over 70 some years. And it was a very, and it was huge political uprising because of it. And now in this age of social media and also constant and repeated media everywhere and people's feeling so apart from each other and so partisan, it's a powder keg as far as I can see. You know, I mean, you really agree. You know, Steve Case is talked about this. JD Vance's great book, Hillabilgy. It's not just there is a massive transition about to happen around jobs that people are not paying attention to. And I don't want to be one of the over”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can we talk about that too? Because that's something that I address in this hour. 38% of jobs are susceptible to automation. Eliminating them by the early 2030s. I know you did a Town Hall series with MSNBC about that and with jobs in the future. This is something that I've been really interested in because these jobs are not being lost to globalization. They're being lost to automation and robots. It's a huge dilemma. And I think it's actually part of what's feeding white working class frustration another hour I'm doing on Actio. So what is the solution here?”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I think what they want to do is sort of act as if they are the saviors of humanity and not take the responsibility for what their inventions create. And tech addiction is just one of the many. And I think at some point you do, I get a lot of pushback this past year of like you're such a scold. And I'm like, no, you need to grow up and start to understand not just tech addiction, but job displacement, like what's going to happen around AI and can we talk about that too?”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, they don't want to. These internet companies don't want to do that because they think what they've been doing is growing at a breakneck speed. And one of the things I started to do last year, right, when they went to visit Trump, you remember they all trooped up to Trump Tower and didn't say anything about immigration. And I wrote one of these Scoly Skoly columns about it talking about how dare you do this without discussing immigration. This guy has been so anti-immigrant, you know, which has been the fuel for Silicon Valley, essentially, immigrants, all the major companies founded by immigrants, Elon Musk, Sergei Brin, Sachin Nadella, Steve Jobs' parents, father was an immigrant. And so in each of them, you know, Susan Wachiski's parents are from father's from another country. So I was really angry at them for doing that by walking up there. And they were all like, oh, you know, we'll get to it. He doesn't mean what he says. I'm like, he means what he says, you know, around this topic, as he said it so many times and was one of his basic promises to his constituency. And so.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I feel like nobody is really, that's one of the reasons I wanted to do this hour. We're operating in like minute by minute, and nobody, I think, in the media culture takes a step back and says, wait a second, let's take a look at some of these big issues because I think this is such an incredibly transformational time in almost every arena, but nobody is sort of debating it or talking about it.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who I just think Was it Google or Google? Yeah, he was at Google They also taking the same theme, not taking responsibility for what they're doing. And so one of the things, you know, people are liking them. I mean, media companies are liking them to cigarette companies. I think that's probably taking it slightly too far. But there is a question of how much warning people should have, how much knowing about, how much science needs to happen. Well, I feel like, you know, no.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm sorry I break the news to you, but Definitely. And you hear more people making noise. One of the guys I interviewed, Tristan Nerris, who I just think, is, I love him, Kara. He's such a remarkable young man. He's 33 years old. He quit Google, right? Because he said, was it Google or Google? Yeah, he was a Google. Because he felt like these internet companies or tech companies are manipulating us so much. And they're making us addicted by, and I see the way they're also”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, that's another big issue. Now I see my daughter's one of the Is talking about Really is changing Because phones and Oh my goodness. Katie, that's terrible. Sorry, I break news to you, but so I'm completely demented right now then. I think to joke about, I agree. I think it's going to be a big topic this year. I think people talk about this. And again, this is the next wave of hit that hits the companies like Facebook.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, do you worry, Dummy? Do you worry about tuck addiction? Because that's something that actually I am worried about, not only for myself, but for people in general. Yes, that's another issue. I see my daughter's one of the hours I'm doing for Nachio Shameless Plug, is talking about the technology making us lose our humanity because it really is changing dramatically changing the nature of our relationships. And one thing I heard Kara from an internet expert, you know, addiction expert out in California, I interviewed Larry Rosen. He said that kids are actually developing plaque in their brain because phones and screen time is actually interrupting the melatonin in their brain and increasing cortisol. And they're very, very worried about early dementia among these addicted kids, which was enough to freak me out.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was not in my car, but it was a suitcase that I brought in my car said. And then I bought one of the, you know, and then I had one of the other phones that looked like those big ones. And I've had phones forever. I one time was on a vacation with someone I was going out with and I was in the middle of the bay in Provincetown. It was low tide. And so I could walk out pretty far. And I was like, it works out here. And I think they broke up with me right then. Really? Yeah, no, I just went on a vacation in Mexico with Nelly. And she was supposed to be without any internet or anything else. And of course, I managed to find a cellular connection somewhere.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That a million places journalists. Tech, I covered Steve Case from AOL. I was here in Washington at the Washington Post and I covered the internet early, early on when there was AT&T interchange and all this other stuff. And so I was super struck by the internet from a very early age. I had the Washington Post had a phone I use, a big old heavy one. It was in a suitcase.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In New York City, and everywhere, she's in Mexico City right now, I think. Interest rates. She's like an anti-mame kind of person. Yeah, Fox has poisoned her brain completely. But she's okay. She's pretty funny. You'd like her, Katie. She's fun. Oh, yeah.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had to throw out a Thanksgiving ones because she voted for Rink Santorum, but that's a long story. She said she wouldn't because he was for anti gay stuff. And I said, You can't vote for him and continue to have Thanksgiving. Where does she live?”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I apologize for that. I just know she loves her Fox News, let me just say. So that's been a great time. Oh, interesting.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you find you worry about her a lot? Because the one thing that I've noticed, and I had a talk with Carrie, my younger daughter about this, because Ellie was at such a formative age. Carrie was just two, and Ellie had just turned, I guess, was six. It had turned six. And she is very, she gets a lot of anxiety about me because I think she does, you know, I'm her only parent. And do you feel that way about your mom?”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So heartbreaking. And, you know, that You know, it's funny, I do in bits and pieces, and I don't know how much she does. I had an interesting, you know, a lot of people whose parents died at a young age are something called highly functional because they become like half their life goes away really if you think about it, if you're five, you don't have much reference to other friends and family and things like you reference your parents pretty much. And so you don't have, you get highly functional because the worst thing in the world happened to you and you survived. And I think a lot of people, kids whose parents died at a young age become one, they work, they just move faster because they realize the ephemerality of life. And then at the same time, they can deal with things. Things don't bother them that much. Both negative and positive. You want to be bothered by certain things in life, but you definitely roll on through. Is your mom still?”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know for me, work is like oxygen. I have to work. And I know you feel the same way. And I'm wondering, I didn't realize, I feel like I know a lot about you, but I don't think I knew that your dad died when you were just five years old. And he had a cerebral hemorrhage. And, you know, yeah, and he was, how old, Kara?”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everything. And I think Yeah, I do. Absolutely. I think one of the things was more than yes. I just didn't just say yes. I just literally would do whatever. Kind of thing. And I think one of the things I was talking to someone the other day, they were like, what do you regret? And I'm like, I didn't really travel. I went right to work. Like I worked. I think you probably did the same thing is I didn't take time off. I didn't go and find myself in, you know, Thailand. I know.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely. Right. Say yes to everything. I know that I did this book of advice a few years ago where I just asked people to write essays, sort of the secrets of their success because I thought it'd be a nice graduation present and I gave all the money to scholarship America, which gives underserved kids an opportunity to go to college. And that's what Ryan Seakra said of all people he said, say yes to everything. Everything. And I think that is a really important and a valuable piece of advice for people starting out, don't you, Kara?”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's great. Right, exactly. And I think I took it. Yeah, I think you probably did the same thing. I took every opportunity I got. Every time someone handed me a chance, I took it. And like, oh, someone go to the Smithsonian to write about this dumb rock collection story. And I just said, I'll do it. You know what I mean? I'll do it with my definitely.”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know that. And Yeah, I don't know if I learned that, but I did learn through osmosis just kind of how a newsroom worked. I think it sort of feeds your curiosity. You watch people who you admire, who you think are good, who are tough. And I also think it makes you think, hey, if they can do it, I can do it because they're not that great”
2018-02-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Katie Couric left Yahoo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Washington Rundown. Guess what I did? Delivered mail. You know that. And you know what was really interesting about working from the beginning because I was in the mail room and I did night news aid and things like that at the Washington Post when I was younger when I was in college was that you understand the dynamics of politics of a newsroom much better from a lower rung. I don't know if you did. I learned that really talented people weren't quite as difficult as the less talented people.”
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