Episode
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
Decoder with Nilay Patel · May 11, 2026 · 1 h 00 min
My guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a former Decoder guest host, one of my co-founders at The Verge, and also just one of my very closest friends. Joanna just left that lofty perch at the Journal to start her own media company called New Things, and she’s starting with…