Jacob Donnelly
@JayCoDon
Founder of A Media Operator, a digital media company about building digital media companies. Former @morningbrew & @coindesk
Announcement: @katiecouric is speaking at the AMO Summit this year. I’m freaking excited.
I completely agree. AMO has had a number of stories published under embargo on days we don’t run the newsletter. It gets included in the next issue, but that could be 2-3 days later, missing out on peak earned media.
PSA: A lot of new media is moving to the newsletter format and embargoes really don’t work. Many newsletters are not daily, but once or twice a week.
CNBC would like a word... The thing I've learned most from TBPN is that the clips matter more than the episode. That's where the real leverage point is and I think that matters a lot for publishers to think about.
its genuinely shameful that the information just straight up cloned @tbpn
Two great points here: 1. The world will never be saturated with enough great content because you can always create a tighter niche 2. Clips > Full listens is definitely a new phenomena most media companies aren't thinking about yet
Everyone was like “there are too many podcasts” and TBPN proved that there weren’t enough (great) podcasts. except the predominant form factor isn’t full listens/downloads on RSS—it’s clips on X
If you want to sleep less well tonight, read this book by @AnnieJacobsen. I started and finished it today. Holy shit…
I'm excited to have Emma Tucker, editor in chief at The Wall Street Journal, speak at the AMO Summit.
This is a creative way to report on people moving within an industry.
BREAKING: Thrive Holdings has signed Ramp veteran @samaysham to its founding team, sources tell TBPN.
Being an entrepreneur is great. I wouldn't trade this for going back to a normal job. But it also sucks. Just today, I've had legal action threatened against us and an advertiser pull all Q3 spend. We'll be fine in both cases, but all the glory comes with punches too.
Well that's that... I'm putting my entire retirement account into $NET. Love this.
I did in fact say this: “I go to war every single day with the Chinese government, the Russian government, the Iranians, the North Koreans, probably Americans, the Israelis, all of them who are trying to hack into our customer sites. And you're telling me, I can't stop some nerd…
Of course he was a little surprised... No one thinks about the consequences of tweets. As Mike Tyson said, "Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." People should try to be a little more human online.
Tina Smith D-MN on her talk to Mike Lee R-UT: "I think that he honestly, he seemed a little surprised to be confronted."
Not for nothing, but Israel is showing that you can have universal healthcare and a strong ass military…
Nothing better than publishing a story that you've been working on for a couple of weeks and then your web host has a error and the site goes down.
Credit to @FreightAlley for being ahead of the curve, but there's a good chance that print sees a big revival. The friction and cost required to print a magazine could be enough of a validator for someone to know that they're getting premium content when everything is AI slop.
I can't help but think the AI gold rush is going to also cause an Anti-AI gold rush too, where people get so tired of artificial slop being fed to them 24/7 that they rebel and look for genuine authentic human connections online and offline that can't be faked. What are some of…
So… can AI help me to go back in time to add the guard to my electric razor before shaving off a patch of my beard? No? Well shit…
The transition from solo writer to media company.
Some news in this AM's @ReliableSources: @JessicaValenti, author of the Abortion, Every Day newsletter, is adding a full-time reporter to her team. @kylietcheung is the publication's first full-time editorial hire.
Freedom of speech is the first amendment for a reason. If even MAGA reporters can’t criticize the administration, then who can?
A hardcore MAGA reporter had her press pass removed by OAN because she committed the grave crime of saying one negative thing about Pete Hegseth and his attacks on the First Amendment. Just in such a wildly dangerous and dumb spot.
On the bright side… Reggie Miller is now unemployed since TNT lost the rights to the NBA next year.