
Settle In with PBS News
Hosted by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett · PBS News
4.8from 148 ratings
- 47
- Episodes
- 40
- Transcribed
- 148
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Settle In with PBS News
Settle in with us each week for in-depth conversations with people we think you should know on topics that help explain the world around us. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
- Publisher
- PBS News
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Nov 2025
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
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40 of 47 episodes have a transcript.

13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How social media shapes the story of your life

6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Nikole Hannah-Jones on the backlash to her viral essay about school choice
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How social media shapes the story of your life
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] When did this shift really happen? I remember the early days of MySpace and the big thing was, you know, who are going to be your top eight friends or your top 12 friends? When did we see this seismic shift between not just having your life documented on social media, but this expectation that you need to live a life that is worthy of being documented? Yeah, I think that it shifted around when we kind of shifted to an image based social platform. So really, Instagram, I would say so right around 2011 2012. And around that time is also when these platforms really switched up their algorithm. to kind of reward certain kinds of content and, you know, not promote others. […]
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- Kathryn Jezer-Morton
- Ke Huy Quan
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Ari Emanuel
- Jon Ronson
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