Enjeti: Editorial strategy involves covering whatever Washington DC insiders ignore
Saagar Enjeti · How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373) · Oct 12, 2022 · at 27:08
Media host Saagar Enjeti describes how he identifies high-performing content topics by deliberately contrarian news judgment.
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“I know what the people in power are talking about and obsessed with, and my general orientation has been to bet against whatever that is and cover anything else.”
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