NYT's Michael Barbaro explains why you love '...

Microdramas are the new phone-first soap operas: stories chopped into dozens of one-minute episodes: Low-budget productions filled with romance, werewolves, secret babies, and cliffhangers—and, eventually, a request that you pay to keep watching. Surprisingly, lots of people do.S ...  Show more

Sports teams keep selling for more money because, in theory, their media rights keep becoming more valuable. But the companies that actually pay for sports TV are starting to push back. John Ourand of Puck joins me to break down Bob Iger and Josh Kushner’s $12.5 billion deal for ...  Show more

How The New York Times grew one of the world's most popular podcasts 

This is how the news should sound. Fifteen minutes a day. Five days a week. Hosted by Michael Barbaro. Powered by New York Times journalism. Starting Feb. 1.

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Today’s episode features Donny’s sit-down with former Congressman, author, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and his good friend Joe Scarborough. In this episode Joe lets us in on the Morning Joe origin story, what it takes to make a three-hour unscripted TV show, and how he brings ...  Show more

In a special, subscriber-only episode of “The Daily,” we go behind the scenes of the production process.

Dan Powell and Marion Lozano, who compose the music for the show, discuss the D.N.A. of the “Daily” music and walk us through the process.

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