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The Rebooting Show — 234 episodes

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Why AI could speed micropayments

2

Agents won’t replace human trust

3

TRB Live in Cannes: Publishers' Google problem

4

Esses' Ojus Jain on building an F1 culture brand

5

KRCW's Jennifer Ferro on building a community model

6

News as a feature

7

Dynamo's Nicholas Carlson on finding content-market fit

8

The new social with Rachel Karten

9

The Dow Jones recipe for growth

10

The revenge of brand

11

Inside Politico’s franchise playbook for Playbook

12

TV advertising has decentralized

13

Inside The Guardian's U.S. expansion

14

Journalism vs capitalism

15

Morning Brew’s direct thesis

16

Axios COO Allison Murphy on bringing the franchise model to local

17

Dealmaking atmospheres

18

The Puck model comes to food

19

Reinvigorating the Philadelphia Inquirer

20

Inside Outside's media-as-flywheel strategy

21

Journalism's product problem

22

Google wants search to die

23

The platform logic of entertainment

24

Food Fix's Helena Bottemiller Evich on optionality

25

Yahoo's Kat Downs Mulder on the portal's comeback

26

The connection economy

27

Content and community

28

The open web needs a new economic model

29

The messiness of streaming advertising

30

Inside Vox’s talent-led franchise strategy

31

The B2B indie opportunity

32

Semafor's big bets

33

Why Puck isn't all-in on events

34

What we learned about media in 2025

35

Inside The Washington Post's product strategy

36

The post-pageview media model

37

The AP's pivot to tech

38

Building a post-scale media company

39

Caliber's Ramin Beheshti on Gen Z news

40

How Tangle became a $4m+ revenue, profitable news business

41

The Schneps Media local news playbook

42

Inside The Economist’s Ferrari strategy

43

How the NYT makes subs and ads work together

44

The Bulwark's anti-neutrality approach

45

How Axios segments its audience

46

How TechCrunch rebuilt its email strategy

47

Talking Points Memo's small-boat strategy

48

The Monocle Playbook

49

A Spotify model for AI

50

Beehiiv's Tyler Denk on email's centrality

51

Publishers need to go back to basics

52

Rough Draft Atlanta’s ‘meaningful, not massive’ approach to local

53

Inside Forbes’s total monetization approach

54

How Essentially Sports navigates shifts

55

Monetizing cowboys

56

Greater Long Island's scrappy approach to local

57

ImpactAlpha's 'hometown paper' approach

58

Atlas Obscura's next chapter

59

Moving up the pricing curve

60

How Variety straddles B2B and B2C

61

Substack's OnlyFans opportunity

62

The return of brand marketing

63

Inside the Minnesota Star Tribune’s Revival

64

An AI grand bargain for publishers

65

Inside Vox Media's podcast strategy

66

The modernization of Cosmo

67

The blurring of institutional and independent media

68

Inside Time's practical AI playbook

69

How the WSJ goes beyond ads and subscriptions

70

Google Zero

71

Henry Blodget on the media business in 2025

72

Dynamo's Nicholas Carlson's pivot to video

73

Anonymous Banker's bleak view of the media M&A market

74

Inside HubSpot's go-direct media playbook

75

The Ankler's Janice Min embraces more with less

76

Spin's IP strategy

77

The Daily Upside's niche strategy

78

Semafor's Rachel Oppenheim on stakeholder media

79

Inside Dude Perfect’s highly profitable business model

80

Morning Brew's Robert Dippell on moving into B2B

81

Adam Ryan on why newsletters are a channel, not a business model

82

B2B lessons for B2C

83

BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti on where social media went wrong

84

Ad tech comes to TV

85

The outlook for AI and publishing in 2025

86

Axios' Sara Fischer on the alternative media's growth

87

Big Tech in 2025

88

The end of affiliate arbitrage

89

How Gannett is adapting for an AI era

90

How Metro increased traffic by publishing less

91

Mark Penn on the state of the news business

92

The new search wars

93

The evolution of Blockworks

94

Defector’s Jasper Wang on slow growth

95

Building independent media businesses

96

AI in the newsroom

97

Fitt Insider's Anthony Vennare on niche media models

98

How Front Office Sports went from college project to $10m in revenue

99

Why sports are winning

100

Google on trial

101

Scott Messer on publishing’s “pivot to everything”

102

Winning at affiliate

103

A confusing time for mass brands

104

How AI will impact publishing

105

Post-platform product development

106

How Dotdash Meredith and The Daily Beast approach product

107

Bloomberg Media’s audience-focused approach to product

108

The God metric for audience value

109

Inside Hearst's New Data Play

110

The Math is Mathing

111

Can ads support news?

112

Semafor’s Ben Smith on Newsroom Wars

113

The Washington Post’s Turnaround Plan

114

The Depth Era

115

Audio in the AI Age

116

Chaos in the SERP

117

The Wall Street Journal's Emma Tucker on audience-first publishing

118

NYU's Jay Rosen on the economics of news

119

The pivot to intentional audiences

120

Investigating the influencers

121

The bootstrapped path

122

Audience-first publishing

123

Mosheh Oinounou on elitist bias in news

124

Introducing The Rebooting memberships

125

Life after the pageview

126

The Juggernaut’s bet on subscriptions

127

Tastemade's twist on the cable model

128

The year ahead for the media business with Sara Fischer of Axios

129

Building lasting subscriptions programs

130

Podcasting as 'nuance media'

131

Big Cabal's Tomiwa Aladekomo on building mobile-first media in Nigeria

132

Subscriptions in the age of ARPU

133

Hearst's Bridget Williams on a 'thoughtful mercenary' approach to the local news business

134

The Guardian's Steve Sachs on voluntary contributions as a reader revenue model

135

Jeff Selingo on the independent path

136

How Blockworks survived the crypto winter

137

Defector's Jasper Wang on worker-owned media

138

Who or what is Advertising Week?

139

Moving past ZIRP

140

The cost-benefit analysis of video

141

Madison and Wall's Brian Wieser on the Mary Meeker slide

142

1440's Tim Huelskamp on newsletter moneyball

143

Team Whistle's Joe Caporoso on the publisher/agency model

144

Permutive's Joe Root on ad targeting in transition

145

Media's uncanny valley

146

Rich Routman on The Sporting News' embrace of affiliate

147

Bustle's Jason Wagenheim on the end of traffic

148

Puck’s Jon Kelly on why ads are still a good business

149

How CJ Gustafson is building the playbook for CFOs

150

Literally Media's approach to creator partnerships

151

Hollywood's doom loop

152

Bloombeg Media CEO Scott Havens on AI's impact

153

Hearst's David Carey on media's chaotic future

154

Neil Vogel on why the Dotdash-Meredith deal still makes sense

155

The 'influencer" journalist model

156

Bloomberg Media's Christine Cook on navigating change

157

Creativity in an AI age

158

Hearst’s Lisa Howard on why media can’t quit ads

159

GroupM's Kirk McDonald on the outlook for digital advertising

160

Punchbowl's Anna Palmer on building a new media brand

161

How AI will change advertising

162

The China Project’s pivot to B2B and subscriptions

163

Industry Dive's Sean Griffey's guide to sustainable media businesses

164

Time CEO Jessica Sibley on taking down Time's paywall

165

Private Media's Will Hayward on battling Murdoch

166

Axios' Sara Fischer and Vox's Peter Kafka on where the. media business goes next

167

Kyle Tibbs Jones on The Bitter Southerner's independent path

168

NYU's Jay Rosen on why news needs subsidies

169

Bullish's Brian Hanly on building media businesses from memes

170

Substack’s CEO on ads, bundling and what’s next

171

Nexstar's Joe Ruffalo on "non-partisan" news

172

What's the future of Vice?

173

The Cool Down's Dave Finocchio on building a mainstream climate brand

174

The Daily Upside’s growth playbook

175

Informed's twist on a subscription news bundle

176

Darren Samuelsohn on taking the solo path as a journalist

177

Sinocism's Bill Bishop on building a solo publishing business

178

The Dispatch nears 40k paid subscribers

179

GroupM's Krystal Olivieri on advertiser support for journalism

180

Substack's Reid DeRamus on newsletter growth mechanics

181

How Local News Now puts community first

182

The Big Bend Sentinel's community approach to local news

183

Should the government "fix" local news?

184

The Mill's Joshi Herrmann on building profitable local news

185

Sebastian Tomich on The Athletic's pivot to ads

186

Ari Paparo on what's next for ad tech

187

Tangle's Isaac Saul on non-partisan news

188

Big Technology's Alex Kantrowitz on where tech goes next

189

Semfor's Justin Smith on the need for a new global news brand

190

6am City's Ryan Heafy on building a sustainable local news model

191

TMB's Bonnie Kintzer on turnarounds

192

Platformer's Casey Newton on going solo

193

Introducing the People vs Algorithms podcast

194

Flying's Preston Holland on using media to build a real estate development business

195

The Future playbook for sustainable publishing

196

Trapital's Dan Runcie on building a brand at the intersection of business and hip hop

197

How Litquidity memed his way to a $2m media business

198

The Hustle's Jordan DiPietro on being a publisher inside a software company

199

Money's Greg Powel on intent media

200

Workweek's Adam Ryan on why B2B shouldn't be boring

201

Human Ventures' Joe Marchese in defense of the bundle

202

Neil Vogel on Dotdash Meredith's best, fastest, fewest strategy

203

Tortoise Media's Katie Vanneck-Smith on slow news

204

Outsider CEO Deirdre Lester on building a lifestyle brand

205

Time's Keith Grossman on why Web3 is here to stay

206

Morning Brew's Austin Rief on the creator economy

207

Permutive's Joe Root on the pivot to privacy

208

Forbes COO Jessica Sibley on "the brand that stands for success"

209

Why The Dispatch is leaving Substack

210

Publishing as a sales tool

211

Human ad products

212

The future of work

213

Independent media in Ukraine

214

Water & Music's Cherie Hu on going solo

215

How Skift survived Covid

216

Jarrod Dicker's sane person's guide to crypto

217

How Puck is putting creators at the center of a media brand

218

The Logic's David Skok on being a journalist founder

219

Howard Mittman on 'mission-driven' publishing

220

How Blockworks got to $20m in revenue in 5 years

221

How Famous Birthdays built a data business off celebrity searches

222

Digital advertising's data reset

223

Jake Sherman on Punchbowl's $10m first year

224

The Grid's "fuller-picture" approach to news

225

How Protocol applies the Politico model to tech

226

Troy Young on publishing's pivot to individuals

227

Axios' Sara Fischer on the year ahead in digital media

228

Rishad Tobaccowala on navigating a changed world

229

The Slowdown's less frenetic approach to media

230

How Silverblade Partners addresses the media's business's cashflow crunch

231

Industry Dive's path to $100m in revenue

232

The Rebooting Show: Stat wants to be the Politico of health

233

The Rebooting Episode 2

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Introducing The Rebooting Show