Why War Reporting Is the Right Mental Model for Today’s Media, Feat. Jake Hanrahan

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s episode of The Breakdown, we introduce the Breakdown Brief - a look at three key topics in bitcoin and crypto. Today, the Brief covers:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brave browsers auto adding ref links to Binance.us </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The disconnect between Wall Street and crypto when it comes to inflation expectations</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A 2018 Pentagon war game including bitcoin </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our featured interview is with Jake Hanrahan, founder of Popular Front - a podcast and independent media company covering underreported and irregular conflict with “no frills, no elitism.” Jake was previously an embedded reporter with Vice and has covered conflict in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Ukraine and elsewhere. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this conversation, Jake and NLW discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why Jake left Vice and decided to build an independent journalism project</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why the mainstream media isn’t bad because of some political conspiracy, but because its business model doesn’t allow it to understand how real people are experiencing issues </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the protests are being (mis)covered around the world</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why American protests are going global</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What he learned covering protests in Hong Kong last year </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What situations people should be paying attention to around the world that they’re not right now </span></li> </ul> <p> </p>