Podcast Episodes

Brian Stelter on the Trump Media Shakedown Era

Brian Stelter puts its clearly: "All M&A runs through the Oval Office right now.” So how much does Trump matter in the Netflix/Paramount battle for W…

2 months ago

Janice Min on Hollywood’s Crisis; Reed Duchscher on the Creator Boom

Janice Min and Reed Duchscher are both building new media companies in LA. But their perspectives are quite different: Min runs The Ankler, the trade…

2 months, 1 week ago

How Odd Lots' Joe Weisenthal Turned Curiosity Into a Career, and a Hit Podcast

If Joe Weisenthal didn’t exist, the internet would have to invent him. Because Joe Weisenthal is built for the internet — more specifically, an inter…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Jeff Bezos Used To Be In Love with The Washington Post. What Happened?

Jeff Bezos used to be the savior of The Washington Post. He bought it for $250 million in 2013, and then invested money and energy into turning it ar…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Who is Josh D'Amaro and Why is He Disney's New CEO?

In February 2020, Disney CEO Bob Iger finally announced his successor: Bob Chapek, who ran the company’s parks business. That didn’t work out.
Now Ige…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Running a Newsroom in Minneapolis + How to Make a Game of Thrones For Less

In an ideal world, I wouldn’t be bringing you an interview with the editor of the Minnesota Star Tribune about her paper’s coverage of the killing of…

3 months ago

Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Owns TV (and Why It Won’t Forever)

Football isn’t just the biggest show on TV — at this point, it’s basically the only reason some TV networks exist. So it’s a very worthy subject for …

3 months, 1 week ago

How to Build a Profitable Media Company in 3 years, with Semafor’s Justin Smith

News is a tough business. So how did Semafor, the news startup founded by Ben Smith and Justin Smith, figure out how to turn a profit in their third …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside Bari Weiss’s Rise: LA, Sun Valley, and the Mogul Network

How, exactly, did Bari Weiss become the head of CBS News?

We know that David Ellison, who bought Paramount last year, hired her — and bought The Free…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Craig Finn on Friendship, Fans and The Hold Steady’s Second Life

Craig Finn makes music — as the head of the Hold Steady, and on his solo records —  about grown-up lives and bad decisions. Back in 2017, we talked a…

3 months, 4 weeks ago