Podcast Episodes

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 …

6 months, 1 week 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 …

6 months, 2 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 A…

6 months, 3 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 …

6 months, 4 weeks 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…

7 months 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.

No…

7 months, 1 week 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…

7 months, 2 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 ne…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Oliver Darcy Thinks the Media Doesn’t Get It. So He Built Status

One thing about the internet is that it lets you build really, really fast. A little more than a year ago, Oliver Darcy was an unemployed former CNN …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Why Henry Blodget is Building Another Media Company

Henry Blodget can’t help himself. The Business Insider founder is starting another media business, knowing full well how difficult the industry can b…

8 months ago