Why Is This News?
By Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr
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Podcast Description
Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr discuss the week's stories from outside Silicon Valley
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoWhy Is This News? The New Wrinkle on the Valuation Trap | with Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoWhy Is This News? Democracy | with Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoWhy Is This News? BART Protests | with Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoWhy Is This News? Quitting Breathing | with Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoWhy Is This News? European Boosterism | with Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoWhy Is This News? News Corp | Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr discuss the News Corp scandal. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoWITN: Berlin | -- | 5/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoWhy Is This News? Nigeria | Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr recap Sarah's latest trip to Nigeria. | 5/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoWhy Is This News? The Upgrade | Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr on Paul's new book. | 5/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoWhy Is This News? Tony Hsieh's Plans for Las Vegas | with Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoWhy Is This News? Indonesia | Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy on Sarah's most recent speaking tour of Indonesia. | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoWhy Is This News? Facebook as Self-Esteem Boost | Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy discuss a Cornell study on Facebook improving self-esteem. | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoWhy Is This News? New York | Sarah Lacy calls in from Manhattan to discuss the startup scene. | 2/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoWhy Is This News? "Alibaba & the Curse of Chinese Manufacturing" | Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr discuss a recent TechCrunch post on Alibaba. | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoWhy Is This News? Justin Bieber | Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy on Justin Bieber's movie, Never Say Never. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoWhy Is This News? Tencent | with Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoWhy Is This News? Egypt | Is Egypt a Twitter Revolution? | 2/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoWhy Is This News? In Case of Another Tech Bubble... | with Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoWhy Is This News? Julian Assange | Paul and Sarah discuss Julian Assange's Crunchies nomination. | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoWhy Is This News? Kevin Rose's Foundation | Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy on private newsletter, Foundation, and books and music on mobile platforms. | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoWITN The Year End Edition | Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy Discuss the Dumbest/Smartest Moves of 2010 and Make Predictions for 2011 | 12/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoWhy Is This News? Happy New Year! | Paul and Sarah wait for Spotify to launch in the U.S. | 12/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoWhy Is This News? Rupert Murdoch & Julian Assange | with another special guest appearance by Mike Arrington | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoWhy Is This News? Le Web | with Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr | 12/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoWhy Is This News? | Paul and Sarah's ideal hotel/travel services (and why Paul has nowhere to stay in London.) | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoWhy Is This News? WikiLeaks | with Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoWhy Is This News? Chinese IPOs, Kindle, and Sarah's trip to Indonesia. | with Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoWhy Is This News? | Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy interview Vineet Devaiah of Phototour.in. | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoWhy Is This News? Jakarta Part 2 | Sarah Lacy calls in from Jakarta. | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoWhy Is This News? Jakarta | Sarah Lacy calls in from Jakarta | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoWhy is This News? Singapore | Sarah Lacy reports from Singapore | 10/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoWhy Is This News? PopTech | Paul Carr reports from Camden, Maine. | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoWhy Is This News: PopTech 2 | -- | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoWhy Is This News? Peter LaMotte, President of GeniusRocket | With Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr | 10/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoWhy Is This News? The Atlantic's Michael Hirschorn | -- | 10/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoWhy Is This News? Nick Woodman, GoPro | "Some People's Most Exciting Moments Also Happen to Be Horrific." | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoWITN: Bastian Lehmann | -- | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoWITN: Adam Rifkin | -- | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoWhy Is This News?: Oyster's Elie Seidman | -- | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoWITN?: Saul Klein to the Rescue | Saul Klein Defends London and Israel; Sarah Defends Incubators...Sort Of | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoWITN: Viva Tianjin | This week, Why Is This News has gone on the road! Two roads in fact: one towards Tianjin, where Sarah was attending “Summer Davos” and the other towards Las Vegas where Paul was, well, hanging out by a pool. | 9/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoWhy Is This News?: Om, Sweet Om | Sarah and Paul talk to Om Malik about why Ebyline is a great idea, just not a business. | 9/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoWhy Is This News?: Can Entrepreneurship Save the Middle East? | Sarah and Paul talk with Linda Rottenberg of Endeavor about surging entrepreneurship in the MIddle East-- outside of Israel. | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoWhy Is This News? A Bollywood Villain Talks Shop | Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr meet Bollywood Villian - and journalist - Monty Mumford to discuss the two things India has done well-- movies and cheap mobile access. | 9/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoIs Digital Eavesdropping Evil? Depends Which Country Is Doing It | In this week's episode of Why Is This News? Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr discuss India's threat to block Google, Skype and Blackberry, with Harvard Law Professor Jon Zittrain. | 9/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoWhy Is This News? Brazil's Growing Web Market | Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr interview Bob Wolheim of SixPix about the fast growing Latin American internet markets | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoWhy is this News?: Mobile Africa | Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy speak with Stefan Magdalinski, who runs Nairobi-based Mocality | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | Video"Silicon Valley has created some incredible tools" | In this week's "Why Is This News?", Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr talk to Scott Goodstein from RevolutionMessaging about how social change is forging Washington DC's place in the tech world. | 8/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoGroupon heads to Russia, and other group-buying international news | Why is this News? Groupon International | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoI'm Gonna Make You A Star | In this week's TL;DW, Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr talk to Gene Massey from Cinema Shares, and then get into a huge fight about whether, as Paul puts it, “crowdsourcing movies will cause America’s creative collapse” | 8/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoThe Truth Is On There? | In this week's episode of Too Long; Didn't Watch, Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr talk to CrowdVoice’s Esra’a Al Shafei about anonymity on the web, as well as the reliability of anonymous political videos/content online, the role of technology in fighting oppression and much more besides. | 8/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoShow Us The Money | In this week's episode of Too Long; Didn't Watch, John Paglia tells Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr about the decentralization (away from Silicon Valley) of venture funding in the US. | 8/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoBig (Urban) Fish in a Growing Pond | In this week's Too Long; Didn't Watch, Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr talk with Peixe Urbano founder Julio Vasconcellos about his innovative deal a day site in Brazil | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoOne Laptop per Colombian Child | Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr speak with Maureen Orth about her work in Colombia with One Laptop per Child and Medellin schools. | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoComrade, Where's My Phone? | In this week's episode, Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr talk to alleged Russian phone thief, Eldar Murtazin, who tells them: "I have no phones." | 7/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | VideoSpies Like Us | Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr talk about Russia's entrepreneurial spies in the first episode of their new show. | 7/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 56 Episodes |
