Podcast appearances and mentions of Sarah E Needleman

Episode 120: At a time when there is little in common between the political parties, it seems most people agree that we need better candidates running for office. Hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada discuss whether a more-knowledgeable electorate would encourage better-qualified people to run for office, and if paying our politicians more is part of the answer. Links to stories discussed during the podcast: Lawmakers are ditching Congress at a record pace, by Stef W. Kight, Hans Nichols and Andrew Solender, Axios "I'm Just a Bill," Schoolhouse Rock They're spending thousands decorating homes No one will ever go inside, by Sarah E. Needleman, The Wall Street Journal About the hosts: Scott Rada is social media manager with Lee Enterprises, and Richard Kyte is the director of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wis. His forthcoming book, "Finding Your Third Place," will be published by Fulcrum Books.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Instead of physical toys or cash, many children are asking for virtual currency to spend on items in their favorite videogam es. It might sound strange to parents, but can online currencies teach kids valuable financial skills? WSJ reporter Sarah E. Needleman joins host Danny Lewis to discuss the lessons (intended or not) that kids can learn from virtual currencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

P.M. Edition for Nov. 18. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years in prison. Plus: After already laying off about half of Twitter's workforce, Elon Musk gave its remaining employees an ultimatum: commit to working “long hours at high intensity,” or leave. Many more chose the latter option. So where does that leave Twitter, as a platform and as a company? Tech reporter Sarah E. Needleman joins host Annmarie Fertoli to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

P.M. Edition for Jan. 18. Microsoft is expanding its footprint in the video game industry through a deal valued at $75 billion to acquire Activision Blizzard, the company behind Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush. WSJ technology reporter Sarah E. Needleman joins host Annmarie Fertoli to discuss how the deal could impact the industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KOTICK TOCK TIME'S UP: This week, after a scathing report, employees of Activision/Blizzard walked out calling for the expulsion of the company's CEO, Bobby Kotick. Our hosts examine the situation and how it symptomizes larger aspects of video game culture. RELEVANT LINKS: Grind, Kirsten, Ben Fritz, and Sarah E. Needleman. "Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant." Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 16 November 2021. Jackson, Gita. "Workers Walk Out As Board, Company Stand Behind Activision Blizzard CEO Accused of Covering Up Sexual Abuse." Waypoint, Vice Media, 16 November 2021. Ashley Oh's tweet about the cosmic horror of the Taco Bell gong sound. Plunkett, Luke. "Let's Meet the Activision Board Members Supporting Besieged Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick." Kotaku, G/O Media, 17 November 2021. Pulliam-Moore, Charles. "Comic Book Workers United Wants a Seat at the Table." Gizmodo, G/O Media, 08 Nov. 2021. Schreier, Jason. "Playstation CEO Criticize Activision's Response to Misconduct and Harassment Allegations." Fortune, 17 November 2021. RELEVANT EPISODES: "Less-Impressive-Than-Expected No. 7" (01 July 2017): Where our hosts discuss the "interesting" game from a creator of Mega Man, Mighty No. 9. "Sword Club" (30 July 2021): Where Andrew and D. Bethel talked about Activision Blizzard being investigated by the state of California. INFO: Visit our website at forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page for this episode. Join our Facebook page Social: Andrew - Twitter & Instagram, D. Bethel - Twitter & Instagram Find Taylor on Twitter and Instagram Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Subscribe to and review the show on the iTunes store or on Spotify. FEATURED MUSIC: "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae "District Four" by Kevin McLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Logan and Trevor make their 2021 Game Awards predictions. Time Stamps and Links: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:51 - The Game Awards 2021 Predictions https://thegameawards.com/nominees 01:00:19 - Activision Blizzard update: "Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant," by Kirsten Grind, Ben Fritz, and Sarah E. Needleman, The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-videogames-bobby-kotick-sexual-misconduct-allegations-11637075680 "Bobby Kotick must resign," by Chris Plante, Polygon https://www.polygon.com/22785788/bobby-kotick-resign-activision-blizzard-controversy-allegations "Activision Blizzard workers walk out, call for CEO Bobby Kotick's resignation," by Nicole Clark and Nicole Carpenter, Polygon https://www.polygon.com/22786117/activision-blizzard-walk-out-bobby-kotick-resignation-demands 01:07:37 - Outro Follow the Nerds: Logan: @LeftyLoggy Trevor: @TrevorJStarkey That Nerdy Site: @thatnerdysite

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about ad tracking and big changes at Apple, what's going on with tuna bonds, and big businesses buying up real estate. In the Plus segment: Legacy admissions.  Mentioned In the show: “Snap's Stock Plummets as It Blames Apple's Privacy Changes for Hurting Its Ad Business” by Sarah E. Needleman “Zillow pauses homebuying as tech-powered flipping hits snag” by Patrick Clark “Credit Suisse agrees to pay $475 million in fines over the ‘tuna bond' affair in Mozambique” by Matthew Goldstein “Amherst College drops admissions edge for children of alumni” by The Associated Press Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest Chris Dougherty joins Chris and Melanie to discuss his recent War on the Rocks article, “Gradually and then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy's Strategic Bankruptcy.” Dougherty notes that “a series of decisions (and indecisions) decades in the making have backed the Navy into a budget and force-planning corner,” and he describes the competing interests that drive different (and rarely complementary) force requirements. What decisions are most needed in order to get the Navy back on the right track? And what practical steps can be taken now and in the near future to close the gap between the many demands on the Navy, and the Navy's capacity to meet those demands? Chris Preble is mad at people who spread malicious misinformation, Melanie laments the decline of human civilization as reflected in the Associated Press' wrong-headed decision about the plural possessive, and Chris Dougherty gripes about people who gripe about the 2018 National Defense Strategy (but don't know what they're talking about). Shoutouts for the Cuban people, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Wally Funk, and Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps.   Links Christopher Dougherty, “Gradually and then Suddenly: Explaining the Navy's Strategic Bankruptcy,” War on the Rocks, June 30, 2021  Andrew Restuccia and Sarah E. Needleman, “Biden's Facebook Attack Followed Months of Frustration Inside White House,” Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2021  Colleen Sinclair, “10 ways to spot online misinformation,” The Conversation, March 27, 2020 (Updated September 17, 2020)

Hola, maricoper. Rudy, súbete los pantalones.Bienvenido al nuevo maricóctel, un repaso a seis titulares de la semana (con podcast narrado), un vídeo para olvidarse del mundo y tres lecturas recomendadas.Test de actualidad. Esta semana, solo Patricia Lauder logró la puntuación perfecta. De hecho, solo ella y otra persona más acertaron la pregunta de qué dos ciudades visitará Joe Biden en su viaje a Europa: serán Cornualles y Bruselas. Fui a pillar, sorry.¡VENTE A DISCORD! Puedes sumarte al Discord de La Wikly a través de este enlace. Rellena el formulario y uno de nuestros moderadores se pondrá en contacto contigo para ponerte al día.Las mejores amistades se forjan así. Bienvenido a La Wikly.

GeneralSubscribe to Fully Vested at FullyVested.co or through your podcast app of choice.Topic: Valuations of Public Markets and the Recent Short Squeeze of Gamestop and OthersA note from your hostsNeither of us are registered financial professionals and all information discussed on Fully Vested is the personal opinions and interpretations of the hosts, and should not be taken as financial advice.We as hosts are speaking from the perspective gained from information that is publicly available at the time of recording.What is going on with GameStop?TLDR:WallStreetBets (WSB) is a group on community platform site Reddit. WSB is an irreverent, often profane community of folks sharing stock tips, self-styled due diligence analysis, and screenshots of their brokerage accounts.Users of WSB noticed that shares in GameStop – a brick-and-mortar video game retailer which found itself on the wrong end of several trends (digitization of game purchasing, decline of physical retail, pandemic stress, etc.) – were sold short at a ratio of 140% of the float.Users started buying up positions in GameStop, driving up the price over 8,100 percent over a 1-year period (based on the closing price of $325.00 on January 29, 2020), causing a partial short squeeze.Meanwhile, several online brokerages – most notably Robinhood – limited trading activity on GameStop and several other stocks which the WSB community have been buying. Some assert a conspiracy between Robinhood and its order clearinghouse/counterparties drove the limits (which included temporarily blocking buy orders while allowing sell orders to go through, before simply placing limits on the number of shares which can be purchased). Robinhood asserts that it was simply trying to met requirements set by its clearinghouse and financial regulators.The fallout so far:On February 1, Robinhood announced it had raised an additional $3.4B in capital led by late-stage finch firm Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors including ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Index Ventures, and NEA. That figure includes $1B in equity financing announced on January 29th. On January 28th, Bloomberg reported that Robinhood had drawn down "at least several hundred million dollars" from credit lines to meet liquidity requirements.Melvin Capital, one of the largest short sellers in GameStop, lost 53% in January, and took in additional capital from Citadel and other investors.Some good links:GameStop Short Squeeze (Wikipedia)Game. Stop. (Ranjan Roy in The Margins)Reddit, the Elites and the Dream of GameStop ‘To the Moon’ (Noah Kulwin in the Opinion section of the New York Times on Jan. 28, 2021)Bots hyped up GameStop on major social media platforms, analysis finds(Michelle Price covering a report from PiiQ Media for Reuters on February 26, 2020)GameStop’s New Mission: Level Up to Its Lofty Share Price (Sarah E. Needleman and Nina Trentmann for the Wall Street Journal)About The Co-HostsJason D. Rowley is a researcher and writer at Golden.com. He volunteers with startup outreach for the open-source community and sends occasional newsletters from Rowley.Report.Graham C. Peck is a Venture Partner with Cultivation Capital and additionally helps companies build technology development teams in partnership with Brightgrove and other technology development organizations.

Developer fees: They're the cut that Apple takes when you buy an app from its App Store, or if you make a purchase within an app. Apple says the fees help it do things like provide security, but developers have long argued that the fees are too high. On Friday, the company made some exceptions to who has to pay them. Reporter Sarah E. Needleman explains. Amanda Lewellyn hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we unpacked the fight between Apple and Epic games as well as the supposed impending ban on Tik Tok. There's lots of uncertainty surrounding how privacy and apps should be regulated. Be sure to follow Jigsaw Politics on social media @jigsawpolitics our email is jigsawpoliticspod@gmail.com Our website is https://jppodcast.wixsite.com/jigsawpolitics Music by Joakim Karud https://youtube.com/joakimkarud JIGSAW POLITICS MERCH OUT NOW https://teespring.com/stores/jigsaw-politics-podcast SOURCES: "Facebook Says Apple’s New iPhone Update Will Disrupt Online Advertising" by Patience Haggin and Jeff Horwitz. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-says-apples-new-iphone-update-will-disrupt-online-advertising-11598458715?mod=hp_lead_pos1 "Apple Can’t Block ‘Fortnite’ Creator From Developer Tools, Judge Rules" by Sarah E. Needleman. https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-cant-block-fortnite-creator-from-developer-tools-judge-rules-11598368356 "How App Makers Break Their Apps to Avoid Paying Apple" by Nicole Nguyen. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-app-makers-break-their-apps-to-avoid-paying-apple-11593349200 "The Big Tech hearings won’t lead to real change. That’s okay." by Peter Kafka https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/29/21345856/big-tech-hearings-theater-amazon-apple-facebook-google "Is TikTok More of a Parenting Problem Than a Security Threat?" By David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/politics/tiktok-security-threat.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article"TikTok to Challenge Trump Administration Over Executive Order" By Mike Isaac and Ana Swanson https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/technology/tiktok-lawsuit-trump-executive-order.html "TikTok sues Trump in attempt to stave off ban" Steven Overly https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/24/tiktok-sues-trump-tech-ban-400852

For about as long as platforms like Twitter have existed, demonstrators and police have used them as a tool. Our reporter Sarah E. Needleman joins us to explain the role of social media in recent protests over the death of George Floyd, as well as some of the historical precedent. Kateri Jochum hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our year in review, we speak to Sarah E. Needleman, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who writes about the video game industry. Over the last few months, she has covered everything from Google Stadia to KFC’s dating sim. Needleman has been at the paper since 2001, and prior to her current beat, she covered small business and careers. Like what you see? Subscribe to our newsletter and podcast. Needleman joined the Twofivesix: Gaming and Marketing Podcast to talk about 2019’s major moments in video games, her predictions for 2020, and trends in interactive entertainment. Here are highlights from the conversation, lightly edited for clarity. The nature of loot boxes will change “As far as loot boxes themselves go, I think we're going to see less of them or they won’t give you some sort of competitive advantage. It'll just be cosmetic. And then I do think that will die down. But the broader issue surrounding loot boxes also ties to this concept of game addiction. And I don't think that's going to go away.” Apex Legends owes its success to Fortnite “What [the surprise Apex Legends launch] showed to me is that the influence streamers have on consumers is significant. But let's also keep in mind is that Apex Legends is free-to-play, just like Fortnite. And what made Fortnite so special is the fact that it is free-to-play and very easy to learn in short sessions. So, we've learned a lot about gaming behavior from Fortnite.” Streaming games isn’t going to take off anytime soon “It's gonna take a while for [game] streaming to become, anywhere near mainstream. Unlike other forms of media, video games are interactive, and if you're playing competitively, even like the slightest delay is going to be a problem. And we know that online multiplayer gaming is very popular. So in the near term, I can't see people giving up dedicated land devices for gaming. Streaming will be more like a bonus option that you would consider for certain situations, like when you're out of storage or when you're traveling. I don't think it'll end up being the primary way people game anytime soon.” Subscribe to our newsletter and podcast for more compelling insights.

If you have not seen your son this summer it may be that he has succumbed to Fortnite Fever. This video game is the opioid of masses of young people who CAN NOT STOP PLAYING. We want to know why and so we we have amassed a squad of kids and parents along with Wall Street Journal Technology Reporter Sarah E. Needleman. We are armed with more than a pickax and ready for answers.

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion pine for VR rigs and talk to their colleague Justin Charity about Arkane Studios' first-person shooter, 'Prey' (4:20), how the pace of a playthrough affects the player's impressions (6:05), and whether a disappointing ending can spoil a game (11:05). Then they ask Wall Street Journal reporter Sarah E. Needleman about covering the gaming industry from a business perspective (16:28), the future of e-sports (25:25), and the major trends she's tracking (30:23). Lastly, they bring on 'Destiny' glitcher "Dj" to discuss his two-year journey to Atheon's throne room in the Vault of Glass (32:59), what inspires him to explore beyond the boundaries of games (34:23), and what he's looking forward to in 'Destiny 2' (45:48).