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The Rebooting Show — 234 episodes
Why AI could speed micropayments
Agents won’t replace human trust
TRB Live in Cannes: Publishers' Google problem
Esses' Ojus Jain on building an F1 culture brand
KRCW's Jennifer Ferro on building a community model
News as a feature
Dynamo's Nicholas Carlson on finding content-market fit
The new social with Rachel Karten
The Dow Jones recipe for growth
The revenge of brand
Inside Politico’s franchise playbook for Playbook
TV advertising has decentralized
Inside The Guardian's U.S. expansion
Journalism vs capitalism
Morning Brew’s direct thesis
Axios COO Allison Murphy on bringing the franchise model to local
Dealmaking atmospheres
The Puck model comes to food
Reinvigorating the Philadelphia Inquirer
Inside Outside's media-as-flywheel strategy
Journalism's product problem
Google wants search to die
The platform logic of entertainment
Food Fix's Helena Bottemiller Evich on optionality
Yahoo's Kat Downs Mulder on the portal's comeback
The connection economy
Content and community
The open web needs a new economic model
The messiness of streaming advertising
Inside Vox’s talent-led franchise strategy
The B2B indie opportunity
Semafor's big bets
Why Puck isn't all-in on events
What we learned about media in 2025
Inside The Washington Post's product strategy
The post-pageview media model
The AP's pivot to tech
Building a post-scale media company
Caliber's Ramin Beheshti on Gen Z news
How Tangle became a $4m+ revenue, profitable news business
The Schneps Media local news playbook
Inside The Economist’s Ferrari strategy
How the NYT makes subs and ads work together
The Bulwark's anti-neutrality approach
How Axios segments its audience
How TechCrunch rebuilt its email strategy
Talking Points Memo's small-boat strategy
The Monocle Playbook
A Spotify model for AI
Beehiiv's Tyler Denk on email's centrality
Publishers need to go back to basics
Rough Draft Atlanta’s ‘meaningful, not massive’ approach to local
Inside Forbes’s total monetization approach
How Essentially Sports navigates shifts
Monetizing cowboys
Greater Long Island's scrappy approach to local
ImpactAlpha's 'hometown paper' approach
Atlas Obscura's next chapter
Moving up the pricing curve
How Variety straddles B2B and B2C
Substack's OnlyFans opportunity
The return of brand marketing
Inside the Minnesota Star Tribune’s Revival
An AI grand bargain for publishers
Inside Vox Media's podcast strategy
The modernization of Cosmo
The blurring of institutional and independent media
Inside Time's practical AI playbook
How the WSJ goes beyond ads and subscriptions
Google Zero
Henry Blodget on the media business in 2025
Dynamo's Nicholas Carlson's pivot to video
Anonymous Banker's bleak view of the media M&A market
Inside HubSpot's go-direct media playbook
The Ankler's Janice Min embraces more with less
Spin's IP strategy
The Daily Upside's niche strategy
Semafor's Rachel Oppenheim on stakeholder media
Inside Dude Perfect’s highly profitable business model
Morning Brew's Robert Dippell on moving into B2B
Adam Ryan on why newsletters are a channel, not a business model
B2B lessons for B2C
BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti on where social media went wrong
Ad tech comes to TV
The outlook for AI and publishing in 2025
Axios' Sara Fischer on the alternative media's growth
Big Tech in 2025
The end of affiliate arbitrage
How Gannett is adapting for an AI era
How Metro increased traffic by publishing less
Mark Penn on the state of the news business
The new search wars
The evolution of Blockworks
Defector’s Jasper Wang on slow growth
Building independent media businesses
AI in the newsroom
Fitt Insider's Anthony Vennare on niche media models
How Front Office Sports went from college project to $10m in revenue
Why sports are winning
Google on trial
Scott Messer on publishing’s “pivot to everything”
Winning at affiliate
A confusing time for mass brands
How AI will impact publishing
Post-platform product development
How Dotdash Meredith and The Daily Beast approach product
Bloomberg Media’s audience-focused approach to product
The God metric for audience value
Inside Hearst's New Data Play
The Math is Mathing
Can ads support news?
Semafor’s Ben Smith on Newsroom Wars
The Washington Post’s Turnaround Plan
The Depth Era
Audio in the AI Age
Chaos in the SERP
The Wall Street Journal's Emma Tucker on audience-first publishing
NYU's Jay Rosen on the economics of news
The pivot to intentional audiences
Investigating the influencers
The bootstrapped path
Audience-first publishing
Mosheh Oinounou on elitist bias in news
Introducing The Rebooting memberships
Life after the pageview
The Juggernaut’s bet on subscriptions
Tastemade's twist on the cable model
The year ahead for the media business with Sara Fischer of Axios
Building lasting subscriptions programs
Podcasting as 'nuance media'
Big Cabal's Tomiwa Aladekomo on building mobile-first media in Nigeria
Subscriptions in the age of ARPU
Hearst's Bridget Williams on a 'thoughtful mercenary' approach to the local news business
The Guardian's Steve Sachs on voluntary contributions as a reader revenue model
Jeff Selingo on the independent path
How Blockworks survived the crypto winter
Defector's Jasper Wang on worker-owned media
Who or what is Advertising Week?
Moving past ZIRP
The cost-benefit analysis of video
Madison and Wall's Brian Wieser on the Mary Meeker slide
1440's Tim Huelskamp on newsletter moneyball
Team Whistle's Joe Caporoso on the publisher/agency model
Permutive's Joe Root on ad targeting in transition
Media's uncanny valley
Rich Routman on The Sporting News' embrace of affiliate
Bustle's Jason Wagenheim on the end of traffic
Puck’s Jon Kelly on why ads are still a good business
How CJ Gustafson is building the playbook for CFOs
Literally Media's approach to creator partnerships
Hollywood's doom loop
Bloombeg Media CEO Scott Havens on AI's impact
Hearst's David Carey on media's chaotic future
Neil Vogel on why the Dotdash-Meredith deal still makes sense
The 'influencer" journalist model
Bloomberg Media's Christine Cook on navigating change
Creativity in an AI age
Hearst’s Lisa Howard on why media can’t quit ads
GroupM's Kirk McDonald on the outlook for digital advertising
Punchbowl's Anna Palmer on building a new media brand
How AI will change advertising
The China Project’s pivot to B2B and subscriptions
Industry Dive's Sean Griffey's guide to sustainable media businesses
Time CEO Jessica Sibley on taking down Time's paywall
Private Media's Will Hayward on battling Murdoch
Axios' Sara Fischer and Vox's Peter Kafka on where the. media business goes next
Kyle Tibbs Jones on The Bitter Southerner's independent path
NYU's Jay Rosen on why news needs subsidies
Bullish's Brian Hanly on building media businesses from memes
Substack’s CEO on ads, bundling and what’s next
Nexstar's Joe Ruffalo on "non-partisan" news
What's the future of Vice?
The Cool Down's Dave Finocchio on building a mainstream climate brand
The Daily Upside’s growth playbook
Informed's twist on a subscription news bundle
Darren Samuelsohn on taking the solo path as a journalist
Sinocism's Bill Bishop on building a solo publishing business
The Dispatch nears 40k paid subscribers
GroupM's Krystal Olivieri on advertiser support for journalism
Substack's Reid DeRamus on newsletter growth mechanics
How Local News Now puts community first
The Big Bend Sentinel's community approach to local news
Should the government "fix" local news?
The Mill's Joshi Herrmann on building profitable local news
Sebastian Tomich on The Athletic's pivot to ads
Ari Paparo on what's next for ad tech
Tangle's Isaac Saul on non-partisan news
Big Technology's Alex Kantrowitz on where tech goes next
Semfor's Justin Smith on the need for a new global news brand
6am City's Ryan Heafy on building a sustainable local news model
TMB's Bonnie Kintzer on turnarounds
Platformer's Casey Newton on going solo
Introducing the People vs Algorithms podcast
Flying's Preston Holland on using media to build a real estate development business
The Future playbook for sustainable publishing
Trapital's Dan Runcie on building a brand at the intersection of business and hip hop
How Litquidity memed his way to a $2m media business
The Hustle's Jordan DiPietro on being a publisher inside a software company
Money's Greg Powel on intent media
Workweek's Adam Ryan on why B2B shouldn't be boring
Human Ventures' Joe Marchese in defense of the bundle
Neil Vogel on Dotdash Meredith's best, fastest, fewest strategy
Tortoise Media's Katie Vanneck-Smith on slow news
Outsider CEO Deirdre Lester on building a lifestyle brand
Time's Keith Grossman on why Web3 is here to stay
Morning Brew's Austin Rief on the creator economy
Permutive's Joe Root on the pivot to privacy
Forbes COO Jessica Sibley on "the brand that stands for success"
Why The Dispatch is leaving Substack
Publishing as a sales tool
Human ad products
The future of work
Independent media in Ukraine
Water & Music's Cherie Hu on going solo
How Skift survived Covid
Jarrod Dicker's sane person's guide to crypto
How Puck is putting creators at the center of a media brand
The Logic's David Skok on being a journalist founder
Howard Mittman on 'mission-driven' publishing
How Blockworks got to $20m in revenue in 5 years
How Famous Birthdays built a data business off celebrity searches
Digital advertising's data reset
Jake Sherman on Punchbowl's $10m first year
The Grid's "fuller-picture" approach to news
How Protocol applies the Politico model to tech
Troy Young on publishing's pivot to individuals
Axios' Sara Fischer on the year ahead in digital media
Rishad Tobaccowala on navigating a changed world
The Slowdown's less frenetic approach to media
How Silverblade Partners addresses the media's business's cashflow crunch
Industry Dive's path to $100m in revenue
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