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How to Get Booked on Hard Fork
Hard Fork is a technology podcast hosted by The New York Times with 203 episodes. Your strongest route into Hard Fork starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.
Hard Fork is not affiliated with Let's Make A Podcast. We cannot book its guests.
What Hard Fork is about
“Hard Fork” is a show about the future that’s already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
In the show’s own words, from its public feed.
- Publishes
- monthly
- Latest episode
- Aug 21, 2026
- Catalogue
- 203 episodes
Recent episodes
Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.
- OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought
- Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math
- What’s a Hard Fork?
Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-08-23.
3 show-specific steps to pitch Hard Fork
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Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of Hard Fork, which publishes monthly, currently “OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the 'Artificial State' +…”. Listen for how the host frames the conversation, then make your angle fit Hard Fork.
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Send it to the address Hard Fork publishes
Hard Fork's feed publishes a contact address. We do not print Hard Fork's address on public pages. A free account opens a pre-addressed draft for Hard Fork in your mail app; we never send it. Get the address for Hard Fork.
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Lead with a specific, relevant angle
Hosts want a specific technical story or a contrarian take: a product you shipped, a hard trade-off you made, or a trend you can explain simply. Open with one sentence on why you fit Hard Fork and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for Hard Fork, then grade the draft against Hard Fork.
Pitch basics: read the complete guide. Hard Fork is listed from Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API), public directory data; its host can manage it below.
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