Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, two prominent tech journalists and hosts of the New York Times podcast “Hard Fork,” have signed with UTA for representation in all areas, reports Corbin Bolies of Variety.
Bolies reports, “The signing comes less than a week after Roose said he would leave his role as a Times columnist in August after nine years to start a new media venture with Newton, including a new show focused on AI. ‘Hard Fork’ began in 2022 as a podcast examining the world of tech before adopting an AI focus concurrent with the boom of the AI industry. Roose and Newton have interviewed OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and, in a live event in April, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
“‘I can’t give too many details yet (there are still some domain names we need to grab, and self-indulgent manifestos we need to write) but suffice it to say that our goal is to take the thing that makes Hard Fork work and extend it into new formats and directions,’ Roose wrote on X last week.”
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