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All Episodes

The Grill Room — 170 episodes

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1

Life Inside the Sheridan-verse

2

Friday Night Rights

3

The Murdoch Who Went Left

4

Are Creators the New Cronkite?

5

Journalism’s Existential Deadline

6

When War Meets Instagram

7

The Livestream Ego Economy

8

Introducing Family Lore

9

The Onion’s Full Bloom

10

Bankoff’s Vox Media Auction Block

11

Noah Oppenheim’s TV News Survival Guide

12

Why OpenAI Bought a Talk Show

13

Is the OpenAI–TBPN Deal the Future of Media?

14

Content Without Creators

15

Carr Crash at the F.C.C.

16

Presenting The Draymond Green Show | Draymond Green Versus Skip Bayless

17

TikTok’s Big Tobacco Era

18

CNN’s McAfee Makeover

19

The Beehiiv Bull Case

20

Prediction Markets Crash the Oscars

21

Ellison Megamerger Complexifiers

22

The CBS–CNN Marriage Proposal

23

CNN Fears & The Ellison Era

24

Debt Men Walking

25

Polymarket’s Press Test & WaPo’s Town Hall

26

The Post-MrBeast Creator Economy

27

Media’s Trump II Stress Test

28

The Calm Before the NFL Storm

29

The Peacock Problem & The Post in Peril

30

Can Sports Save Peacock?

31

Matt Murray on the Washington Post’s Mass Layoffs

32

WaPo’s Extinction Event & The Dawn of D’Amaro

33

The Making of Tucker Carlson

34

Can Barry Diller Save CNN?

35

Food52’s Recipe for Bankruptcy

36

Netflix vs. YouTube vs. Everybody

37

Ben & Justin on Semafor’s $330M Valuation

38

CBS News on the Rocks

39

The Gospel According to VandeHei

40

The Dokoupil Debacle & Semafor’s $330M Question

41

Hollywood’s Future ’26 War Stories

42

CNN Sale Chatter, Meta TV & Other 2026 Predictions

43

Are the Kids… All Right?

44

Media’s ’25 Crisis of Nerve

45

Katie Couric Goes Direct

46

Media’s Anxiety Index

47

Sorkin’s Rules of Engagement

48

The Iger-Altman Alliance

49

Can Yahoo Survive in a Hyper-Niche World?

50

Introducing How We Made Your Mother Season 2!

51

Substack’s Lizza Problem & Spotify Wrapped Revelations

52

Elon, Zohran & The New Politics of Influence

53

Thanksgiving Media Intrigues & Nuzzigate Leftovers

54

Nuzzi, Wolff, and the Algorithm Apocalypse

55

Inside Alison’s Roman Empire

56

Olivia Nuzzi’s Media Mirage & Gerry Cardinale’s Broadsheet Blues

57

A $420M Mamdani Surprise & Bankoff’s Podcast Spin Plan

58

A.I.’s Mass Media Makeover

59

MSNBC’s $20M Makeover & Mamdani’s Media Magic

60

The WBD Hunger Games

61

Comcast’s Peacock Problem & Elon’s Grokipedia

62

Neal Mohan’s YouTube Endgame

63

The Times’ TikTok Era & The Zaz-WBD Whisper Network

64

The Bulwark’s Seven-Year War

65

The Netflix-Spotify Marriage and Gerry’s Media Land Grab

66

The $5M TBPN Playbook

67

Can Bari Save CBS?

68

The MAGA Creator Industrial Complex

69

Hollywood’s Sora 2 Panic & Zuck’s Vibes Play

70

The $25M Bloomberg of Travel

71

Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright

72

Trump’s Free Speech Paradox

73

Disney’s Kimmel Pivot & Ellison’s WBD Lasso

74

Disney’s F.C.C. Fear Factor

75

Meredith Kopit Levien’s New New York Times

76

Rupert’s Last Rodeo & CNN’s Zombie Era

77

Lachlan’s Coup & The Murdoch Legacy

78

The R.F.K. Media Antidote

79

The Weissification of CBS News

80

Should ESPN Copy The New York Times?

81

The New A.I. Times & Portnoy vs. McAfee

82

Can MSNBC Survive Without NBC?

83

The Sports Super App Era

84

Mo News, Less Problems

85

Media’s Free Agency Era

86

Fox Gets Ruthless

87

Iger’s Endgame & Ellison’s Next Target

88

Katie Drummond’s New 'Wired' Order

89

WSJ vs. The Times & Media After Murdoch

90

The Vox Media Doctrine

91

Bari Deal Heat & Trump v. Murdoch

92

Substackonomics

93

Substack’s $1B Paper Trail & The Weiss Effect

94

F1’s Apple Pie & ESPN’s Austerity Era

95

Google’s Kill Switch & Sun Valley Signals

96

Paramount’s Settlement Math & Murdoch’s Trump-Era Journal

97

The Creator Economy's Indie Illusion

98

YouTube’s Niche Trap & A.I. Copyright Complexifiers

99

Front Office Sports 101

100

Oliver Darcy’s Status Report

101

How YouTube Ate the Media

102

Can Local Media Actually Be… Saved?

103

WBD Divorce Notes & VF Gets Vogue’d

104

Inside ‘Original Sin’

105

Media’s A.I. Spring

106

The Zaz Report

107

Disney’s Pre-K Anxieties & A YouTube Talent War

108

The Apple of MLB’s Eye

109

Sam Altman’s $6.5 Billion Bet

110

Jimmy Pitaro’s New ESPN

111

Why Fox Won’t Fade

112

Upfronts Dish: NBC’s NBA Fantasy & The Fox News Bonanza

113

Gerry Baker’s Open Journal

114

Introducing: Aspire with Emma Grede

115

The Bravo-Industrial Complex

116

‘60 Minutes’ to Midnight

117

Graydon Carter’s Golden Years

118

Google’s D.O.J. Showdown & YouTube-NFL Murmurs

119

Jen Psaki in Her Prime Time

120

Zuck’s Trump Trial & F1 Deal Chatter

121

Who's Afraid of Michael Wolff

122

MrBeast Recession Signals & MLB Ratings Moneyball

123

C.E.O.s and Market Woes

124

Zuck’s UFC Move & Trump Ad Market Shock

125

The Washington Media Whisper Network

126

The Atlantic’s Goldberg Mine

127

The YouTube Half Nelson

128

Making a Racquet

129

A Lessin in Media

130

Emma

131

It’s The Economist, Stupid

132

White House Press Pool Kremlinology

133

Zaz's Cablenomics

134

Oppenheim’s Opus

135

30 Rock’s Kutler Era

136

A White House Media War

137

Troy Young's A.I. Love Language

138

Bonus Episode: Media on the Brink

139

Emily Sundberg's Indie Media Playbook

140

David Remnick on The New Yorker's Centennial

141

The Atlantic's A.I. Survival Kit

142

Chuck Todd Unplugged

143

Amusing Ourselves to Death

144

The NFL's Chief Concern

145

Can CNN Survive the Death of TV?

146

Inside the L.A. Firestorm

147

Elon’s Biographer Predicts the Future

148

CNN's Digital Dreams & WSJ Hunting Season

149

Is Netflix the New ESPN?

150

Trump Media Anxiety & The WaPo Exodus

151

Troy Story 2

152

Media’s Biggest Winners & Losers of 2024

153

Axelrod on the Art of the Pod

154

The WaPo National Nightmare Ends

155

Why Did ABC News Fold to Trump?

156

WBD’s New Zazonomics

157

Barry and The Beast

158

Troy Story

159

What the Hell Happened to CNN+?

160

New Right Media’s Billion-Dollar Play

161

Punchbowl’s Big Fish

162

MSNBC in Exile

163

Alison Roman Chops It Up

164

Disney Succession Tea Leaves

165

Legacy Media's Last Stand

166

The Reverse Trump Bump

167

When Life Gives You Lemon…

168

New York Media's State of Mind

169

Brian Williams: One Night Only!

170

Introducing: The Grill Room, with Dylan Byers