S2 EP7: Forget Inbox Zero

How 1,277 Listener Emails Helped Our StartUp.

This week, we explain how the ZigZag inbox works and Manoush answers two very special letters: one from a listener with an unusual financial frustration and another who has an existential entrepreneurial query. Because in the daily cacophony of signals, email sometimes shines through as a place to get the news and information we want from people and sources we trust.

GO DEEPER:

A study about our email habits finds half of us achieve in-box zero. The SEC says tokens are securities (we think). That unnerving New York Times expose about how Facebook handles crises. Manoush was in GQ talking about the importance of boredom. How about a Fair Credit Reporting Act to make platforms more accountable? The BBC's look at how (and why) people in India, Kenya, and Nigeria interact with fake news. Another journalism experiment with a radical membership engagement model: The Correspondent. 

ILLUSTRATION: 

Accurat's Giorgia Lupi analyzed and then visualized dozens of voice memos from listeners...

CREDITS:

Thalia Beaty, Producer

David Herman, Audio Engineer and Composer

Dan Dzula, Audio Engineer

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