Lots of people start media companies using money from rich people. Jason Koebler and his colleagues did it themselves, using... more

Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Bari Weiss all used to work for big mainstream media companies. Now they’re on the... more

One take you may have heard after the election: Democrats need their own Joe Rogan. Taylor Lorenz disagrees. And Lorenz is... more

You want up-to-the minute election analysis? Sorry, not on this episode. But: If you want smart thoughts about politics and media... more

Jon Lovett and his cofounders at Crooked Media are a good story - former Obama aides who started their own... more

Emma Tucker became the Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief in 2023, and she’s been moving fast ever since. For starters, there are... more

What if you could watch shows and movies on a screen, for free, in exchange for watching some ads? In olden... more

What do Donald Trump and the video game industry have to do with each other? Nothing! Yet we’re combining them into... more

The last time I talked to Matt Yglesias, we were co-workers at Vox.com, and Joe Biden had just been elected... more

Mark Zuckerberg, along with most of the men running big tech companies, has spent many years and tons of money... more