How does Wall Street think about Trump, media and tech?
Why didn’t Meta’s stock move when Mark Zuckerberg announced his pro-MAGA pivot? Why do big media companies want to dump their cable TV networks — but hang on to their broadcast TV networks? What’s goi...
15 Jan 202542min
Why Katie Notopoulos still loves the internet
I’m a lucky man. Whenever I’m baffled by the internet, and social media, I turn to my co-worker Katie Notopoulos, who is there to explain it to me. That’s because Katie’s job at Business Insider is to...
8 Jan 202551min
Looking back, and ahead, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw
I don’t love a lot of year-end #content . But I do love talking to Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw every year, to help put the year in media in perspective, and to think about what might be coming in 2025. And...
18 Dec 202443min
1440’s newsletters are short, popular and profitable
Newsletters are not a new idea. Yet every few years the media business rediscovers them, anyway — either as a way to quickly launch a startup with bigger ambitions, or as a standalone business. Tim Hu...
11 Dec 202448min
Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0
You probably shouldn't know Renee DiResta's name: She's a researcher who studies online bad behavior, not a celebrity. But the work DiReata did studying the "stop the steal" movement after 2020 has ma...
4 Dec 202456min
How to build your own media company - without VCs or billionaires
Lots of people start media companies using money from rich people. Jason Koebler and his colleagues did it themselves, using a grand total of $4,000. That was back in the summer of 2023. Now 404 Media...
27 Nov 202450min
Meet the man making money for Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly
Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Bari Weiss all used to work for big mainstream media companies. Now they’re on the internet, building their own companies, with the help of Chris Balfe. Balfe’s Red Sea...
20 Nov 202441min
Taylor Lorenz on Joe Rogan, Joe Biden and goodbye to big media.
One take you may have heard after the election: Democrats need their own Joe Rogan. Taylor Lorenz disagrees. And Lorenz is worth listening to. For years, she has been a really sharp observer of social...
13 Nov 202450min
