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Yahoo News launching podcast on politics and technology

Yahoo News is starting a weekly podcast called “Bots & Ballots” that will explore the intersection of politics and technology.

A new episode will be released every Wednesday, starting tomorrow.

The first episode will feature Samuel Woolley, research director of the DigIntel Lab at the Institute for the Future, discussing what can be done to prevent bots from influencing the 2018 elections.

“Bots & Ballots” is hosted by Grant Burningham, former technology editor for Newsweek, who has worked for The New York Times, and NPR affiliate KUER.

In addition, his writing has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Quartz, and the BBC.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.