Mixed Signals from Semafor Media

'Substack isn’t cool,' gatekeepers are, and other strong opinions from tastemaker Chris Black

Clay Travis on mixing sports and politics, his ‘pudding strike,’ and the billion-dollar bet on sports gambling

Jen Psaki on her journey from politics to cable, what the Trump White House is doing right — and whether there was a Biden cover-up

Ezra Klein on Trump, Sanity, and Podcasting

Zeitgeist Genius Tina Brown on Meghan Markle, Vanity Fair and Whether We Still Need Editors

Can YouTube Debates Bring America Back Together? with Jubilee’s Jason Y. Lee

Piers Morgan On Going Independent, Meghan Markle, and Why He Likes Pouring Gasoline On the Fire

Nick Denton’s Surprising Return, Courtesy of Elon Musk, Denmark, and Chinese Cars

Secrets of YouTube with CEO Neal Mohan

Does Mass Culture Still Matter? And How Snoop Dogg Mastered Commerce, with Frank Cooper

Inside the Independent Creator World, with Substack’s Hamish McKenzie – and Nayeema Raza

New York Times Editor Joe Kahn, Podcaster Megyn Kelly and More on the Collapse of Trust

Why Netflix Is “Obsessed” With Winning an Oscar, with Puck’s Matt Belloni

How Fox Is Embracing the Creator Economy, with Red Seat’s Chris Balfe

Inside the Making of a Super Bowl Ad

How to Make Money in Media, with Kara Swisher

How the Creator Economy Has Transformed Advertising

Davos, the Inauguration, and Media’s Place in the New Global Order, with Ian Bremmer

How Technology Will Shape Media in 2025, with Jessica Lessin

How Dating Apps Survive in the Age of Digital Exhaustion, with Tinder’s Melissa Hobley

Ozy Founder Gets Prison Time: What Digital Media’s Most Notorious Scandal Says About the Business

How YouTube Became TV – with Colin and Samir

Elon Musk Is Today’s Ted Turner, and Legacy Media Is “Scared”

Post-Election: Escapism, Resistance, and Cheeseburgers

Election 2024: What You’re NOT Seeing

Is Fox News Winning the Election? Inside the Network with Nate Fredman

Media Bias from the Middle East to Manhattan, with James Bennet

How AI Cures Writer’s Block

Can Centrism Go Viral? With The Bulwark’s Tim Miller

A Safe Space for CEOs (and Politicians?) with All-In’s Jason Calacanis

It’s a Man Eat Dog World, with Food Critic Pete Wells

The Sports Boom — Football, Pickleball, Tennis and, um, Cricket

Can Kamala Keep It Up? With Tommy Vietor

Hacks, Olympics, and “Boomscrolling”

COVID Special: What the Media Got Wrong, and Right, with Dr. Anthony Fauci

Can Kamala Hold On? With Veep EP Frank Rich

Trump, the Man's Man at the RNC, AKA the Happiest Place on Earth

Is Sex Political? And Will Biden — and Kamala — Survive the Vibe Shift?

Did The Media Cover Up Biden’s Condition? And 13.5 Other Conspiracy Theories

When Biden Lost It & Nate Silver's Bet

TikTok Ban, Journalists Have Ethics?!, and the Gods of Cannes

Hunter Biden Conspiracies, Coverage of Gaza and Sudan & Got Raw Milk?

Brits vs Biden, Linklater on Sexless Cinema & the Song of Summer

Media Circus of the Century, BuzzFeed Buzz & Sleeping with Your Phone

Introducing: Mixed Signals from Semafor Media