A Billion-Dollar Book Deal
Bill Cohan joins Teddy Schleifer to talk about a mega-merger in the publishing world that the Justice Department is trying to nuke To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: ...
5 Jul 202219min
Media Monday: CNN’s Step Child Problem
Jon Kelly joins Peter Hamby to discuss Zaz’s new target at CNN—its very profitable digital unit that more people read than the Times. So what went wrong? To learn more about listener data and our pr...
4 Jul 202223min
Europe’s Putin Rumors
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss the inside conversation emanating from the G7 – Putin’s health, Trump fears, and more. Then Baratunde Thurston explains how an activist Supreme Court has waved the w...
1 Jul 202218min
D.C. Insiders Discuss Roe’s Next Steps
Tara Palmeri talks with Peter about the sotto voce conversations surrounding Roe inside D.C.—what lawmakers are saying, how it might (or might not) impact the midterms, and all the Dems' challenges. ...
30 Jun 202219min
Maddowpocalypse & Trump’s Nightmare
Dylan Byers visits Peter to discuss MSNBC’s surprising decision to give Rachel Maddow’s 9 p.m. hour to Alex Wagner, which seems like a white flag for the network’s ambitions. Then Tina Nguyen and Ben ...
29 Jun 202220min
Where Have All the Deals Gone?
Bill Cohan joins Peter to unveil Wall Street’s latest anxiety—reduced deal flow (at least compared to the high water mark of ‘21), which means reduced bonuses and even RIFs (banker jargon for layoffs)...
28 Jun 202220min
Media Monday: The Roe Media Story & Semaforeplay
Jon Kelly joins Peter Hamby to discuss how the Roe decision scrambled media, and the challenge it poses for a new era of centrism. Then they discuss the latest news emanating from Semafor. To learn ...
27 Jun 202226min
Emergency Pod: Samuel Alito’s Pandora’s Box
With the Supreme Court striking down the right to abortion in America, Julia Ioffe, Eriq Gardner, and Tara Palmeri join Peter to discuss how we got here, what it means for women, for the midterms, and...
24 Jun 202222min
