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20 of 587 episodesBrian Stelter on the 60 Minutes Mess; Nilay Patel on Apple’s AI Problem
Brian Stelter and Nilay Patel are both covering big, powerful institutions that are undergoing real change, whether they like it or not. Ste...
How Dhar Mann Turned After-School Specials Into A Billion-View Business
Dhar Mann’s videos look simple, because they are simple: Someone acts badly, someone learns a lesson, everyone gets a moral by the end. You...
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour Explains Why Boring Data Is a Great Media Business
I think of Dow Jones as The Wall Street Journal, because that’s the part I know — and the part I used to work near/around/inside. But Dow Jo...
Vox Media's Jim Bankoff Explains Why He's Selling to James Murdoch
Jim Bankoff has spent nearly 20 years building Vox Media. Now he’s selling a big chunk of it to James Murdoch, who is acquiring Vox Media's...
Versant CEO Mark Lazarus is Running a Post-Cable Cable Company
Versant is the new company Comcast created when it spun off CNBC, MS NOW, USA and other cable networks it no longer wanted inside the mother...
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on AI, the Met Gala and His Secret Succession Plan
Roger Lynch has spent the last seven years trying to turn Condé Nast from a magazine company into a profitable portfolio of global brands. N...
The Internet’s Let-It-Rip Era, With The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel
The internet is in its let-it-rip era: more AI slop, more video, more clips — and very little in the way of guardrails or rules. Charlie War...
AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford
Learn to code, they told us. Then the computers went and learned to code. Now anyone can do it, in theory, courtesy of Claude Code and other...
Jason Blum Built a Hit-Making Movie Machine. Does It Still Work?
Jason Blum built one of Hollywood’s smartest businesses: make low-budget horror movies, give filmmakers room, pay talent on the back end, an...
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Sam Altman’s Trust Problem
Sam Altman has spent years presenting himself as the face of AI: The guy warning that the technology could change everything, and the guy in...
What Happens When a “Succession” Writer Takes on Silicon Valley
Jonathan Glatzer has written for shows like Succession and Better Call Saul. Now he’s got his own: The Audacity, a new AMC drama set in Sili...
Why We Need to Pay Attention to Elon Musk Again
Elon Musk has spent the last year being quieter than usual — by Elon Musk standards.That may be about to change in a very big way, as his Sp...
Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet
Prediction markets are suddenly everywhere: in sports, in politics, in the media business — and, depending on who you ask, they’re either a...
How to Survive without Google: People Inc's Playbook
Lots of publishers are freaked out about “Google Zero” — the notion that one day, Google will stop sending them any traffic at all. That’s m...
Matt Belloni on the Oscars, the Ellisons, and Hollywood’s Next Chapter
Oscar season is supposed to be Hollywood’s lap. It is also, increasingly, a reminder of how shaky things are in Hollywood right now. And thi...
The World’s Cup Is Coming to Trump’s America, with Roger Bennett
The World Cup is coming to the U.S (and Canada, and Mexico) in less than 100 days. Perhaps you’re an American who doesn’t care about soccer,...
Netflix Walks, Paramount Wins, and the Ellisons Take Hollywood
Netflix shocked the world last year by winning a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. This week it shocked us by walking away.In this emergen...
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 bat...
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,...