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“Paramount, which owns CBS, is in the process of buying CNN.”

“How exactly do you think the New York Times makes money? Or Fox News or CNN? They're all in the same business. They're monetizing your attention.”

“CNN is doing six hundred million in profit on revenue of 1.8 billion.”

“When we did our research, we did find a New York Times story last month, but none of the CNNs of the world have actually covered this”

“So this one has 212 referring domains, and this had some really big some really big pickups. So I think it got picked up by Entrepreneur maybe CNN, a few of the big US news sites.”

“Buying CBS news is like buying RCA records or something. It, like, just doesn't have any effect, and only people who are not paying attention or pretty cut off think that you're going to win hearts and minds by being, buying CBS news or CNN. These are, these b…”

“If we start thinking about the influence that Ellison, the Ellison family is having on the Trump administration, whether it's quid pro quo or it's the appearance of quid pro quo, it's best for Trump to stay out of it because already we have the TikTok deal. No…”

“Like yesterday, we saw that that Ellison and Paramount came in with over a hundred billion. Of course, that included the CNN, the TV assets, but even when you broke it out, it seemed like It was very clear that Ellison was willing to pay more money and make a …”

“CNN has struck a partnership with Kalshi, the world's largest global prediction market company, bringing Kalshi's data to its journalism across television, digital, and social channels.”

“So this week we've announced well, we found the first and then the second large scale news network partnership with the prediction market. So we announced CNN exclusive partnership and then CNBC, the same thing the next day.”

“I think we can. They're not mutually exclusive. Like I think we can do both.”

“Once we launched all these apps, it never did well. In the long run, it became, it made us famous. So, you know, we were on wall street journal, CNN, CNBC. We got a lot of fame, but I knew the reality. The business was very poor.”

“When it was announced at the Trump conference yesterday, they said Trump links autism to acetaminophen used during pregnancy despite decades of evidence it's safe. And then if you read back, so this is 2017, 20 16, Acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase r…”

“If I was running the democratic party, I would say, okay, look, we either have to, we gotta go full rebel and like, then we can't be like, we actually have to be against CNN as well as Fox news and all this shit. And the New York Times and the Wall Street Jour…”

“Those sets are, they're just designed for this. They're all they care about is their logo. It's so boring.”

“I really don't think it's going to be one or the other... Five years from now you should expect to see more of that diversity, not less. I think if I were predicting anything, I don't think it would be a one or zero between those two types of options. I could …”

“Fox News is losing an audience. CNN is losing an audience. MSNBC is losing an audience. I mean, their audiences are gone. Like, they're just vaporizing right now.”

“Every week my podcast is beating CNN.”

“Then he parlayed all of that and bet all of his money in CNN and was constantly on the brink of bankruptcy, not because his businesses suck, but because he was just, like, pushing it 100% all the time.”

“You're not going to have somebody at NBC or CNN or Fox come down and tell Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper. Hey, you can't cover the story, but there is a bunch of self censorship that occurs.”

“If you're CNN, you are incentivized to sell ads and get Watch time and keep people watching. And if you're polymarket, you're incentivized for liquidity and providing correct prices. And so it's just a very different like incentive structure.”

“CNN, Anderson Cooper Show, which was, you know, across from us for a while, minus one hour, had something like a hundred staffers.”

“So we did not, in July, we did not beat CNN, but we had two-thirds of CNN's YouTube audience.”

“And the people with the megaphones are professional instigators. They want us at each other's throats. And I think if we're just aware that their intent is to instigate, whether they be with Fox news or whether they be with CNN, Their intent is to instigate.”

“The first Vanderbilt heir to not get any money, when all the money was exhausted, the first heir where there's nothing left was Anderson Cooper of CNN. His mother was a woman named Gloria Vanderbilt. She got kind of the last trust fund in the family.”

“I think the CNNs will figure it out. It's a Global Information Network. They'll come up with a business in line with its costs. I don't think they're out at all.”

“He has this local TV station in Charlotte that eight years before he had bought for a million dollars. Remember, he's always early. And now that business is valued at twenty million. So he sells that for twenty million dollars, takes a nineteen million dollar …”

“It would be 13 years before we faced another 24 hour news channel.”

“There is polling by CNN that a majority of Americans have now turned against the idea of giving more aid to Ukraine.”

“When I was at CNN up until the day we all got our pink slip in 2008, there were eight of us who are devoted to science and covering science and trying to push that kind of coverage on the air.”

“Anytime we're planning, we build in buffers for all of that chaos that's happening on a daily basis.”

“And after a lot of observation and learning, I implemented a system to manage that kind of intake with four different touch points or events. So we have weekly demo days, working sessions, breaking news, dress rehearsals, and office hours.”

“It's different also because they're usually in person in the newsroom and I work remotely. And so, and actually most of my team works remotely.”

“We've had some discussions about doing a sizzler reel for our content management platform as, since we're onboarding people and, you know, building new features and there have been discussions with her about getting a celebrity to come and promote product for …”

“We're also really fortunate to have a global, twenty-four-seven editorial support team that we work really closely with. So they are the ones who handle, troubleshoot, escalate incidences, incidents up to the relevant teams. There are a lot of layers to that p…”

“And so it actually did happen a couple of years ago in the 2020 election. And one of the fallbacks at that time, because we were not, we are, you know, we're still on our current content management platform, but we had our new one as we're building it as one o…”

“One thing we do is we script everything, right? Like the teams and the players that we need involved in it, what the incident is. And it usually starts when breaking news occurs with an email. The news gathering team sends an email to our writers and our produ…”

“We run the whole thing from the minute the email is sent to, and of course, since we're testing the platform with this breaking news dress rehearsal to the minute you hit publish on that page. And there's a lot of stuff that goes on in there and it all happens…”

“Compared to the rest of product management as a discipline and the tech industry. Product management in news is still in its, I will say infancy. And that's just because it hasn't been an integrated role for as long as it has been in big tech”

“The whole point of the question is like, do you have and can you exhibit high agency? And especially again, working in news, it's so important. And so There's not like a specific answer. I think the ability to actually define something specific and tangible in…”

“Even companies that are not able to deliver like CNN shut down CNN plus this week, after investing three hundred million dollars in trying to build out the service.”

“Tucker Carlson now gets more young Democrats listening to his show than CNN and MSNBC”

“They were the sponsor of CNN's coverage for election night. Results. So it was like, election, 2020, brought to you by Calm. And it was like, hilarious, because people are like, of course, I'm freaking out mentally. It blew up on social, and I know they got li…”

“We're probably going to pass, you know, most CNBC shows and some CNN shows by the end of next year.”

“What's the difference between, you know, CNN and the WWE? There's not much. They make up storylines for entertainment. And so like, you know, the, All these three letter acronyms, the NFL, same way. Storylines for entertainment. And like, if you say that the n…”

“So we work with like half the comp score of two-fifty. You work like the biggest ones, like the CNBC, the Weathers, the CNN, those kinds of big publishers.”

“If MSNBC and CNN and whatever are going to put on, you know, newscasters who are opining throughout these you know, broadcasts, then they're going to be seen as a opinion, opinion news.”

“I was, I mean, I had many failings as a manager when I ran Time Magazine or CNN, and one of my failings is I wasn't as comfortable being brutally honest or telling people they sucked as perhaps a stronger manager would have been.”

“If each of you did your own pod, and I have my pod, and we made the all in network, the all in news network, I guarantee you we would be within five years, you know, right up there with CNN and MSMUC.”

“Who cares about Vlad? He lied on television. He lied on CNN. He lied on Fox. Where did he not lie yesterday?”

“And we landed a contract with CNN and a contract with BuzzFeed that we were going to Translate all their news from English to Spanish.”

“I'm really good at being the second man in a bobsled team, which means I get really excited, and I can push really, really, really hard, but the second it launches out of the gates, I just sort of jump in, and I'm like, okay, what now?”

“If you look at a company like that, and this is my understanding, if you look at a company like that, they need to see real growth. They need to see a real trajectory for success, and they need to see it fast, and I think that, I don't think we were able to de…”

“Probably. Yeah, I think that if we didn't live in New York City or Los Angeles, that, that'd probably be the case. I can tell you that in the terms that I think of, which is, can I now give my children the lifestyle that I've always wanted to give them? The an…”

“CBS with the Walter Cronkite, the brand as a father of news, could have launched on cable a CBS news network instead of letting Ted do it, but they saw themselves as a thirty-minute Six p.m. Period of news. They just didn't see news as a 24 hour audience produ…”

“And when you meet with people who you think might be interested in buying your company, you tell them you're fundraising. You are never in the process of selling your company until it's been sold.”

“My, Feeling about all this, and just this is a general thing, being a manager, executive, founder, is you should give people as much information as possible. You really should try and be transparent. If that information is actionable, if it can actually cause …”

“It was a big part of why the acquisition took place. It's why now this is not just a, no longer just a technology company, but a media and technology companies, because I think there was a demonstration of what we can do within that cross section.”

“Well we did a live interview with CNN from our living room, and we had about a hundred people actually book and pay with a credit card through our service, which, this was like the first sign of a working, viable marketplace, even to the point where we were ge…”

“That segment eventually ended up on the homepage of CNN, and they treated it as news.”