Podcast Episodes

How to make money in Washington, with Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman

Some people don’t want to pay for media. But lots of people are paying Jake Sherman and his team at Punchbowl News: The 4-year-old startup is thrivin…

1 year ago

NYT publisher AG Sulzberger on Trump, OpenAi and the economy

The New York Times faces the same challenges every other news organization faces in 2025.

But it’s also in way better shape to take those challenges …

1 year ago

Trump vs The Media, Round 2, with Sara Fischer

The Trump 2.0 era is less than three months old. But it’s already creating havoc for journalists and the companies they work for.

In Washington, Trump…

1 year ago

How long can sports keep TV alive?

Call it symbiosis. Call it co-dependency. However you want to characterize it, there’s zero debate that Big TV and Big Sports are deeply intertwined.…

1 year, 1 month ago

Inside PJ Vogt’s low budget, super successful podcast

Anyone who makes things thinks they could do it better if they had more. More money, time, headcount, infrastructure.

Some of us find there can be ups…

1 year, 1 month ago

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants to hang on to the live-streaming crown

Back when I first started covering the internet, the idea of broadcasting yourself for hours on end seemed like a pipe dream for weirdos. Now it's ho…

1 year, 1 month ago

Matt Belloni: what the Oscars tell us about Hollywood

We had to stop recording this one for a minute, because Matt Belloni got a text. More on that below.

Big picture: Matt is a longtime Hollywood reporte…

1 year, 1 month ago

Free speech is under attack

The most useful class I ever took in college was a media law class, where I learned two things: 1) Journalists in the U.S. (along every other America…

1 year, 2 months ago

Matthew Ball: Why the games business is broken

Everyone knows that video games are giant, fast-growing business that's going to swamp traditional media.

Except that's not true: The games business i…

1 year, 2 months ago

BuzzFeed wants to build a… social network?

A decade ago BuzzFeed was the bleeding edge of digital media, and Serious People thought it was going to be a threat to the likes of the New York Tim…

1 year, 2 months ago