Podcast Episodes

This 45-year-old Indian comedian has 14 million views on TikTok

In just about every article about TikTok, it's portrayed as a video repository created by and for teens. Indeed, nearly every single one of its top-e…

5 years, 8 months ago

How Serial Box is bringing back serialized fiction

If you traveled back in time 100 years and perused your average newsstand, you'd find dozens of magazines that published serialized fiction. Millions…

5 years, 9 months ago

She left her job at Fortune Magazine to launch a paid newsletter

Polina Marinova had the kind of media career that many journalists dream of. After a brief stint at a media startup, she landed a job at Fortune Maga…

5 years, 9 months ago

Lessons learned from running a paid newsletter

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/

So the format to this podcast is pretty straightforward and consistent. I bring on a media entreprene…

5 years, 9 months ago

This podcast host charges his listeners money to text him

With the journalism industry in freefall, there's a good chance that your local newspaper is experimenting with some kind of digital subscription off…

5 years, 10 months ago

Her wedding news website grew into a thriving media company

When Naoise McNally and her business partner launched One Fab Day, neither of them had any experience working for a media company. Naoise didn't even…

5 years, 10 months ago

He's building a media empire around the freight industry

Quick question: how big do you think the global freight industry is? If your guess is in the billions, then you're aiming too low. According to some …

5 years, 10 months ago

His running-focused newsletter has 800 paying subscribers

When Terrell Johnson launched on Substack, he had no intention of rolling out a paid newsletter. He was just trying to escape Mailchimp's expensive f…

5 years, 10 months ago

His creator-focused newsletter has over 25,000 subscribers

Josh Spector was blogging before most people even knew what a blog was. Over the span of a decade, he started and abandoned several of them, often be…

5 years, 11 months ago

He generates a six-figure income through Patreon and Substack

A year ago, Jesse Singal had a very traditional freelance writing career. When he wasn't working on his book, he'd write articles for places like The…

5 years, 11 months ago