Media Monday: Vox-Murdoch Aftertastes & Bezos's Warning Shot
On a very special Memorial Day episode, Jon Kelly rejoins the show to discuss a plethora of pressing digital media agenda items: the second- and third-order effects of James Murdoch's Vox acquisition;...
25 Mai 25min
Pro Sports’ Private Equity Pickle
Jason Stein, the sports investor and indefatigable pickleball advocate, joins John to discuss the flow of private equity into sports at all levels, the commercialization of the NCAA, the future of you...
23 Mai 43min
Sam Altman Unleashed!
Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to discuss a wild week for OpenAI, from the (somewhat anticlimactic) denouement of Elon Musk’s “stealing a charity” lawsuit to Sam Altman signaling that a potential I.P.O. f...
22 Mai 23min
Is Cuba the Next Venezuela?
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to break down Trump’s pressure campaign against Cuba, where the administration seems to be deploying parts of the Maduro playbook: a D.O.J. indictment of Raúl Castro, Marco Rub...
21 Mai 29min
Bari Weiss Demotion Murmurs
Dylan Byers joins Peter to discuss his report that Paramount leadership is preparing to potentially strip Bari Weiss of operational control at CBS News after seven and a half months of bad press, a ha...
20 Mai 22min
Trump’s G.O.P. Revenge Tour
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to break down Donald Trump’s purge of his Republican critics—from catalyzing Bill Cassidy’s wipeout in Louisiana’s Senate primary to the all-out push to take down Thomas...
19 Mai 21min
Media Monday: The Media C.E.O. Comp Index & Byron Allen's Hallucination
The besties Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby are reunited for a readout of Matt Belloni's expert media C.E.O. comp analysis. Who has been the most overpaid top executive during the past two decade? Whose sal...
18 Mai 24min
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
In a special live episode, Republican Congressman Adrian Smith joins Leigh Ann on Capitol Hill to share his candid thoughts on Trump’s soybean diplomacy, the tariff backlash, his beef with Canada, the...
16 Mai 29min
