also forgot to mention - i'm recently back @nytimes from mat leave! had a second gal in September and the chaos is real and wonderful.
now... send me story ideas...scoops... gossip!
I started reporting this before going on mat leave in September but @AnaSwanson and @megatobin1 took it to the next level, with the additional Labubu testing and further reporting. please take a read: https://t.co/R0kuaB39au
remarkable to see - and appreciate @DKThomp for sharing some numbers here for curious observers.
"my ARR surpassed my Atlantic salary after about five months, and has continued to grow." estimates 5.5% of nearly 110,000 subscribers are paying ones...
THE SUBSTACK TURNS 1!
One year ago, I left The Atlantic to start a newsletter. Today:
- how it's going
- how the business is growing
- what I've learned
- the difference between viral essays in The Atlantic vs the Substack ecosystem
https://t.co/uDzbhbmYwx
Student cheating is becoming impossible to detect as some A.I. companies coach young adults on how to get away with it.
Inside a new arms race: "humanizers" and "autotypers" face off against AI detectors.
https://t.co/fuSkgCVaPS
We have a new @nytimes investigation out today.
SUVs and pickup trucks dominate the roads across the US. And many are bigger — and far deadlier — than ever before. A thread --->
A look at Ina Garten's new seven-figure deal with Vox Media for a video podcast where she'll make cocktails with guests, and the bidding war for the show (@sapna / New York Times)
(Visit Mediagazer dot com for the link and full context!)
This insane. Polymarket paid content creators to record ads where they faked placing bets and winning money on a fake Polymarket website to promote the company, the WSJ reports.
From @ByKLong@ceostroff@neilmhta@brenna__smith
https://t.co/8h6xm2YRTg
wrote about the bidding war for Ina Garten's new podcast (which landed with Vox Media) and the continued blurring of the lines between talk shows + video podcasts! Ina says she can connect more deeply with guests on a pod than on the Food Network
https://t.co/rMkqZrtlyW
- she won't be cooking! cocktails + mocktails for the 45-minute episodes
- a record 58% of Americans said they were monthly podcast consumers in a recent Edison Research survey - YouTube remains the top platform for consuming pods over Spotify + Apple, underscoring the interest
Glad to see Vanity Fair backing its reporter with this one and shame on Unwell Network for trying to belittle a young reporter into dropping a story. This alone is pretty telling.
great piece on parenthood and how it has long been seen in America as "an individual act of extravagance" — and how that's perhaps now changing https://t.co/mvPlqpY0UF
by @jialynnyang
Anita Hill said that Glamour magazine gave her hope when it named her a Woman of the Year in the early 1990s. “I don’t know very many magazines, neither Time nor Newsweek, that gave me that much interest,” she told me.
A v diff time for women's mags: https://t.co/B0Hj8Ijh0T