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• Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He’s a Must-Read Media Gossip.

  I chat with lots of media reporters. Lachlan Cartwright is a different beast: An Aussie who started out working for Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids in London and New York, and then on to the National Enquirer — yes, that National Enquirer —...

  10 dec 2025 2811 sec.

• "Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw

  In 2013, Netflix wanted to become HBO. Now Netflix is going to buy HBO along with the Warner Bros. Studio, in a blockbuster $83 billion deal. Wowza. Here to talk me through this is Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw, who has been deep in the deal...

  5 dec 2025 1125 sec.

• PBS Lost a Billion Dollars. Now what? With CEO Paula Kerger

  The last time I interviewed PBS CEO Paula Kerger was 2019: Donald Trump was President, and Republicans were trying to defund public media — as they had been trying to do for decades. That didn’t happen then, but this year it did, and...

  3 dec 2025 2426 sec.

• What Happens To Media When The Web Goes Away, with Tony Haile

  We built the modern media business for the web — for people who visited websites, read articles, and saw ads. What happens when no one does that anymore? That’s been one of the big themes of conversations we’ve been having on Channels...

  26 nov 2025 2349 sec.

• Kevin Reilly got to the top of the TV heap. Now he's in AI.

  If you watched something on TV that you liked in the past few decades, there’s a good chance Kevin Reilly was involved: at various times he’s held top jobs at FX, Fox, NBC, Turner and HBO Max. But that run ended in 2020, and now Reilly...

  19 nov 2025 2410 sec.

• What the Disney–YouTube Battle Tells Us About the End of Cable

  It’s not unusual for a big TV network and a big TV distributor to fight about money. But the Disney-YouTube fight is unusual -- at the bare minimum, because it has stretched out for so long. CNBC’s Alex Sherman lives and breathes this...

  12 nov 2025 3159 sec.

• The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell on Why Republicans Won the Attention War

  In some ways, the Bulwark feels like other small publishers in 2025: it’s found growth and profit by pushing itself out on any platform it can find. But that wasn’t the plan when the company started in 2018. Back then, it was a...

  5 nov 2025 2725 sec.

• The Man Who Fixed The New York Times Wants to Fix CNN

  Would you pay $7 a month to stream CNN? Because CNN CEO Mark Thompson would like you to do that. I know, I know, I’m skeptical, too. But Thompson has been here before: At his last job, as CEO of the New York Times, he helped shepherd...

  28 okt 2025 3137 sec.

• 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 one-man Venn diagram: Brian Morrissey runs The Rebooting, where he podcasts, writes...

  22 okt 2025 3414 sec.

• 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 Zitron got there early. He runs a PR firm for a living, which means he’s supposed to...

  15 okt 2025 3276 sec.

• 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 AI threats. One big difference: The Guardian also has a $1.5 billion trust backing the...

  8 okt 2025 2340 sec.

• 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 giant is going to choke off their last reliable traffic stream.That may explain why...

  1 okt 2025 2062 sec.