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Tech reporter in San Francisco for the Wall Street Journal
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Rolfe Winkler
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Yelp and the Business of Ranking Businesses For years, small businesses have complained that Yelp manipulates their reviews. They claim that Yelp extorts them by asking them to purchase advertising, and if they decline, their good reviews disappear and their negative reviews move to the top. Yelp denies it, and yesterday, a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court came down on Yelp’s side.
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The Treatment
Hua Hsu: A Floating Chinaman Author Hua Hsu stops by to discuss his book A Floating Chinaman, recounting the life of 1930's actor/writer H.T. Tsiang and his struggles entering the American literary world.
Bookworm
Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé Morgan Parker says that the poems in her book There Are Things More Beautiful than Beyoncé take a stand against the clichés of the dominant culture.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Previewing James Comey's blockbuster testimony Former FBI director James Comey testifies Thursday in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, but his opening statement has been released. In it, he says he felt pressured by Donald Trump to declare loyalty to him and publicly clear him of any wrongdoing in the Russia investigation.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Why did Jared Kushner want a back channel with Russians? News broke Friday that President Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, tried setting up a back channel between the Trump transition team and the Russian government. What are the consequences for Kushner, President Trump, and the investigation into Russian meddling?