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The Grill Room — 188 episodes

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Introducing: Money Moves with Jill Schlesinger

2

The New York Times’s Video Manifesto

3

Trump Fatigue Meets Its Match

4

Inside the NBCU Custody Battle

5

Who Watches the Bots?

6

The New York Times’ Russini Reckoning

7

The Silicon Valley Comms Manifesto

8

Roku, Vox, and More Bari Madness

9

Lazarus Rises

10

The Next Creator Gold Rush

11

Fox One's Big Moment

12

60 Minutes' Ticking Time Bomb

13

Joanna Stern’s A.I. Playbook

14

Can Nick Bilton Fix ‘60’?

15

Byron Allen Tells All

16

The Google Zero Clickpocalypse

17

Alex Heath, Unprompted

18

BuzzFeed’s Buzz Kill

19

Life Inside the Sheridan-verse

20

Friday Night Rights

21

The Murdoch Who Went Left

22

Are Creators the New Cronkite?

23

Journalism’s Existential Deadline

24

When War Meets Instagram

25

The Livestream Ego Economy

26

Introducing Family Lore

27

The Onion’s Full Bloom

28

Bankoff’s Vox Media Auction Block

29

Noah Oppenheim’s TV News Survival Guide

30

Why OpenAI Bought a Talk Show

31

Is the OpenAI–TBPN Deal the Future of Media?

32

Content Without Creators

33

Carr Crash at the F.C.C.

34

Presenting The Draymond Green Show | Draymond Green Versus Skip Bayless

35

TikTok’s Big Tobacco Era

36

CNN’s McAfee Makeover

37

The Beehiiv Bull Case

38

Prediction Markets Crash the Oscars

39

Ellison Megamerger Complexifiers

40

The CBS–CNN Marriage Proposal

41

CNN Fears & The Ellison Era

42

Debt Men Walking

43

Polymarket’s Press Test & WaPo’s Town Hall

44

The Post-MrBeast Creator Economy

45

Media’s Trump II Stress Test

46

The Calm Before the NFL Storm

47

The Peacock Problem & The Post in Peril

48

Can Sports Save Peacock?

49

Matt Murray on the Washington Post’s Mass Layoffs

50

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

51

The Making of Tucker Carlson

52

Can Barry Diller Save CNN?

53

Food52’s Recipe for Bankruptcy

54

Netflix vs. YouTube vs. Everybody

55

Ben & Justin on Semafor’s $330M Valuation

56

CBS News on the Rocks

57

The Gospel According to VandeHei

58

The Dokoupil Debacle & Semafor’s $330M Question

59

Hollywood’s Future ’26 War Stories

60

CNN Sale Chatter, Meta TV & Other 2026 Predictions

61

Are the Kids… All Right?

62

Media’s ’25 Crisis of Nerve

63

Katie Couric Goes Direct

64

Media’s Anxiety Index

65

Sorkin’s Rules of Engagement

66

The Iger-Altman Alliance

67

Can Yahoo Survive in a Hyper-Niche World?

68

Introducing How We Made Your Mother Season 2!

69

Substack’s Lizza Problem & Spotify Wrapped Revelations

70

Elon, Zohran & The New Politics of Influence

71

Thanksgiving Media Intrigues & Nuzzigate Leftovers

72

Nuzzi, Wolff, and the Algorithm Apocalypse

73

Inside Alison’s Roman Empire

74

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

75

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

76

A.I.’s Mass Media Makeover

77

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

78

The WBD Hunger Games

79

Comcast’s Peacock Problem & Elon’s Grokipedia

80

Neal Mohan’s YouTube Endgame

81

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

82

The Bulwark’s Seven-Year War

83

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

84

The $5M TBPN Playbook

85

Can Bari Save CBS?

86

The MAGA Creator Industrial Complex

87

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

88

The $25M Bloomberg of Travel

89

Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright

90

Trump’s Free Speech Paradox

91

Disney’s Kimmel Pivot & Ellison’s WBD Lasso

92

Disney’s F.C.C. Fear Factor

93

Meredith Kopit Levien’s New New York Times

94

Rupert’s Last Rodeo & CNN’s Zombie Era

95

Lachlan’s Coup & The Murdoch Legacy

96

The R.F.K. Media Antidote

97

The Weissification of CBS News

98

Should ESPN Copy The New York Times?

99

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

100

Can MSNBC Survive Without NBC?

101

The Sports Super App Era

102

Mo News, Less Problems

103

Media’s Free Agency Era

104

Fox Gets Ruthless

105

Iger’s Endgame & Ellison’s Next Target

106

Katie Drummond’s New 'Wired' Order

107

WSJ vs. The Times & Media After Murdoch

108

The Vox Media Doctrine

109

Bari Deal Heat & Trump v. Murdoch

110

Substackonomics

111

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

112

F1’s Apple Pie & ESPN’s Austerity Era

113

Google’s Kill Switch & Sun Valley Signals

114

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

115

The Creator Economy's Indie Illusion

116

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

117

Front Office Sports 101

118

Oliver Darcy’s Status Report

119

How YouTube Ate the Media

120

Can Local Media Actually Be… Saved?

121

WBD Divorce Notes & VF Gets Vogue’d

122

Inside ‘Original Sin’

123

Media’s A.I. Spring

124

The Zaz Report

125

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

126

The Apple of MLB’s Eye

127

Sam Altman’s $6.5 Billion Bet

128

Jimmy Pitaro’s New ESPN

129

Why Fox Won’t Fade

130

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

131

Gerry Baker’s Open Journal

132

Introducing: Aspire with Emma Grede

133

The Bravo-Industrial Complex

134

‘60 Minutes’ to Midnight

135

Graydon Carter’s Golden Years

136

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

137

Jen Psaki in Her Prime Time

138

Zuck’s Trump Trial & F1 Deal Chatter

139

Who's Afraid of Michael Wolff

140

MrBeast Recession Signals & MLB Ratings Moneyball

141

C.E.O.s and Market Woes

142

Zuck’s UFC Move & Trump Ad Market Shock

143

The Washington Media Whisper Network

144

The Atlantic’s Goldberg Mine

145

The YouTube Half Nelson

146

Making a Racquet

147

A Lessin in Media

148

Emma

149

It’s The Economist, Stupid

150

White House Press Pool Kremlinology

151

Zaz's Cablenomics

152

Oppenheim’s Opus

153

30 Rock’s Kutler Era

154

A White House Media War

155

Troy Young's A.I. Love Language

156

Bonus Episode: Media on the Brink

157

Emily Sundberg's Indie Media Playbook

158

David Remnick on The New Yorker's Centennial

159

The Atlantic's A.I. Survival Kit

160

Chuck Todd Unplugged

161

Amusing Ourselves to Death

162

The NFL's Chief Concern

163

Can CNN Survive the Death of TV?

164

Inside the L.A. Firestorm

165

Elon’s Biographer Predicts the Future

166

CNN's Digital Dreams & WSJ Hunting Season

167

Is Netflix the New ESPN?

168

Trump Media Anxiety & The WaPo Exodus

169

Troy Story 2

170

Media’s Biggest Winners & Losers of 2024

171

Axelrod on the Art of the Pod

172

The WaPo National Nightmare Ends

173

Why Did ABC News Fold to Trump?

174

WBD’s New Zazonomics

175

Barry and The Beast

176

Troy Story

177

What the Hell Happened to CNN+?

178

New Right Media’s Billion-Dollar Play

179

Punchbowl’s Big Fish

180

MSNBC in Exile

181

Alison Roman Chops It Up

182

Disney Succession Tea Leaves

183

Legacy Media's Last Stand

184

The Reverse Trump Bump

185

When Life Gives You Lemon…

186

New York Media's State of Mind

187

Brian Williams: One Night Only!

188

Introducing: The Grill Room, with Dylan Byers