Media Newsletters

Thoughts on building digital media businesses. A Media Operator discusses what is happening in media and provides actionable insights for current and prospective media operators. Jacob Cohen Donnelly talks about strategies and tactics while diving deep into business models, advertising, audience development, audio, and video. The newsletter has been extended to a podcast where the author interviews entrepreneurs and operators about their success and failures while building media companies. Interested in knowing how to grow and monetize your media business? Subscribe to Media Operator and join the community.

Reporting, first-person commentary, and reported essays on communities that journalism in the United States has typically ignored. The Objective is here to fix journalism. The writers believe in their mission and are ready to share, critique, and undo “the industry’s historical wrongs”. The newsletter is full of behind-the-scenes stories, highlighting what is behind the culture war, lack of diversity in newsrooms, and other important issues that are easily missed as they’re rarely covered by other media outlets. Subscribe to The Objective and join the community to help solve problems that are troubling the media industry.

A newsletter about marketing's outsized role in breaking society (and how we can fix it). Branded highlights that nothing about digital advertising is straightforward. The authors cover all things adtech, providing all the necessary information to help marketers advertise responsibly and keep their brands safe. Branded is covering the behind-the-scenes issues of adtech - from keyword blacklists to silencing trans-friendly media and from sentiment ratings to solving systemic racism. Subscribe and become an advocate for better marketing.