Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants to hang on to the live-streaming crown
Back when I first started covering the internet, the idea of broadcasting yourself for hours on end seemed like a pipe dream for weirdos. Now it's how some people make a living. Twitch more or less cr...
12 Mars 20251h
Matt Belloni: what the Oscars tell us about Hollywood
We had to stop recording this one for a minute, because Matt Belloni got a text. More on that below. Big picture: Matt is a longtime Hollywood reporter - and lawyer before that - who now has the indus...
5 Mars 202539min
Free speech is under attack
The most useful class I ever took in college was a media law class, where I learned two things: 1) Journalists in the U.S. (along every other American citizen) have enormous freedom to say and write w...
26 Feb 202553min
Matthew Ball: Why the games business is broken
Everyone knows that video games are giant, fast-growing business that's going to swamp traditional media. Except that's not true: The games business is now in a prolonged and confusing funk. Investor ...
19 Feb 202538min
BuzzFeed wants to build a… social network?
A decade ago BuzzFeed was the bleeding edge of digital media, and Serious People thought it was going to be a threat to the likes of the New York Times. Many rounds of layoffs and asset sales later, B...
12 Feb 202534min
Why Michael Lewis is worried about the sports betting boom
It’s hard to remember now. But just a few years ago, sports betting was illegal in almost all of United States. And sports leagues and the media companies that worked with them wanted nothing to do wi...
5 Feb 202557min
How Silicon Valley really feels about Trump, TikTok and DeepSeek
I haven’t checked in with Jessica Lessin in some time — and I have to say I picked a pretty good time to catch up with her. Because Silicon Valley is undergoing something meaningful right now, and she...
29 Jan 202547min
How TikTok (still) works
TikTok banned itself for less than a day. Now it’s back in the U.S. - despite a law that says it shouldn’t be operating. We’re not going to weigh in on all of the… weirdness around the last few days o...
22 Jan 202536min
