
Apple News In Conversation with Shumita Basu brings you interviews with some of the world’s best journalists and experts about the stories that impact our lives. Join us every week as we go behind the headlines.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 255 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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I usually love this show, and I def miss our girl. But like it’s still a team and I am questioning having Isgur on this latest one. It’s so obvious she is here selling her book and that is it. This whole “of here’s some specifically conservative stuff because people say this is too left leaning”. Classic Democrat nonsense. Have some journalistic integrity.
Love the work
The recent episode on higher ed framed around should you or shouldn’t you go and examining the recently popularized social media influenced view that the value is changing needs some context. In fact look at the data. For all the hand wringing about AI, demographic cliff, which are undoubtedly real problems, students should be informed that selecting options like don’t go to college are costly. Yes, you can enter high relative hazard trades and do the AI data center build before that bubble coll... more
Ummm…what is going on? Where is Shumitha?!!
I’m a kid
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