Podcast Episodes

The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell on Why Republicans Won the Attention War

In some ways, the Bulwark feels like other small publishers in 2025: it’s found growth and profit by pushing itself out on any platform it can find.

But that wasn’t the plan when the company started …

Published on 8 hours ago

The Man Who Fixed The New York Times Wants to Fix CNN

Would you pay $7 a month to stream CNN?

Because CNN CEO Mark Thompson would like you to do that.

I know, I know, I’m skeptical, too. But Thompson has been here before: At his last job, as CEO of the …

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next

We spend a lot of time on this show talking to people who run media companies. We also spend a lot of time talking to media reporters.

So here’s our one-man Venn diagram: Brian Morrissey runs The Reb…

Published on 2 weeks ago

The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust

The AI story is changing fast. A few months ago, it was all promise and inevitability. Now even AI boosters are asking if the numbers make sense.

Ed Zitron got there early. He runs a PR firm for a li…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Why the Guardian Doesn't Need a Billionaire to Thrive

In lots of ways Guardian Media Group is facing the same problems as every other news publisher: A tricky ad environment, platform problems, looming AI threats.

One big difference: The Guardian also h…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Almost Everyone is Taking Money from OpenAI. Why is Ziff Davis suing them?

In the future, digital publishers could get run over by AI. In the present, they are deeply concerned about Google, and the prospect that the search giant is going to choke off their last reliable tr…

Published on 1 month ago

The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment

When’s the last time you stayed up to watch a late night TV monologue? Months? Years? Decades?

I’m not sure, either. But I stayed up Tuesday night to watch Jimmy Kimmel’s return. James Poniewozik, wh…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

I tried Zuckerberg's $800 Ray-Bans. Are they the future? With Alex Heath

A year ago I got try a pair of $10,000 computer goggles from Meta. The tech was super-impressive, but you couldn’t buy them them. You still can’t.

Now Mark Zuckerberg is trying a similar idea. But th…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

How TBPN Made a Tech News Splash

John Coogan knows what you’re thinking: the world does not need another tech podcast. And the world does not need another podcast featuring two dudes talking.

Yet Coogan and Jordi Hays have started a…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Patch’s AI Experiment: Thousands of Newsletters, Zero Humans

Everyone agrees that the decline/disapperance of local news is a big problem. No one agrees about the best way to solve it.

So let’s check in on a new AI push from Patch, the people who have been try…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago