Eric Johnson
Producer, Special Projects, Kara Swisher
Eric Johnson is the producer of Recode Decode and other projects for Kara Swisher. Previously, he wrote about the video game industry on Recode and its predecessor site, AllThingsDigital.
Eric spent four years in radio at 95.5 WBRU in Providence, R.I. He also wrote for the Peninsula Press, while he was a student at Stanford University. Outside of work, he previously co-hosted another podcast, Giant Geek vs. Mega n00b.
Eric holds a B.A. in History from Brown University and an M.A. in Journalism from Stanford.
Ethics Statement
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
I do not own stock in any company that I report on, but I may make investments in mutual funds, over whose portfolio investments I have no direct control.
I don’t accept gifts, products or favors from sources or any company I cover. On occasion, I may borrow products in the short term from companies I cover if and only if those products may be returned after I have used them to inform my writing.
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Recode by Vox is wholly owned by Vox Media, which has a number of investors, including but not limited to Comcast Ventures and NBCUniversal, both of which are owned by Comcast Corporation.
My posts have total editorial independence from these investors, even when they touch on products and services these companies produce, compete with, or invest in. The same goes for all content on Recode by Vox and at our conferences. No one in this group has influence on or access to the posts we publish. We will also add a direct link to this disclosure when we write directly about the companies.
Latest articles by Eric Johnson
Sen. Warner outlined what he thinks Congress needs to do next on the latest Recode Decode.
John Napier Tye, the founder and CEO of the nonprofit law firm Whistleblower Aid, says the past 10 years have been a “Renaissance of whistleblowing” in America. His first client is now representing the anonymous Trump-Ukraine whistleblower.
He’s an adviser to President Trump — but he also wants to see a national $15 minimum wage and an overhaul of the H-1B visa program.
On the latest Recode Decode, de Blasio called for antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google and dismissed universal basic income as a cure-all in the face of job automation.
Originally designed as an IRL space for women and nonbinary people, The Wing is now thinking about what services it can provide its members online, CEO Audrey Gelman says.
On the latest episode of Recode Decode, Williamson tells Recode’s Kara Swisher that no amount of money can protect you from “total chaos.”
Smith says it doesn’t matter if you’re not as responsible for breaking things as someone else — if you can be part of the solution, you should.
Proposals for a universal basic income, such as Andrew Yang’s “Freedom Dividend,” may have dire consequences for blue-collar workers who just want a job, Greenhouse says.
A recent pledge by 181 American CEOs to care about more than their shareholders “had all the moral weight of a New Year’s resolution and about the same odds of being fulfilled,” O’Toole says.
Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt, the author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, says Nextdoor reduced racial profiling by 75 percent by introducing a tiny bit of friction for users.