Jessica Testa
@jtes
media correspondent @nytimes
My profile of Brett Cooper, the YouTuber who has signed deals in recent weeks with Fox News and Red Seat Ventures. She’s part of the new wave of right-wing commentators: Less policy talk and Washington spin. More pushing trad values through celebrity news nytimes.com/2025/07/19/bus…
Meet the Mitchell Jackson, the PR machine behind Candace Owens, Brett Cooper, Adam Friedland, Caroline Calloway, and more “You’ll never starve in America if you’re shameless” vanityfair.com/news/story/mit…
sure except that is a Guess ad .….
Vogue’s August issue has begun to use “AI models” instead of human models for some of their photoshoots.
If an independent podcaster with no media conglomerate backing him can generate $20 million a year, then I'm pretty sure Paramount could plug the $40 million hole and get Stephen Colbert's late night show profitable. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…
Scoop: Anti-woke warrior Bari Weiss seeks more than $200mn (up to $250mn!!) for media start-up The Free Press ft.com/content/0f1ce3… via @ft with @annaknicolaou @IvanLevingston @DanielThomasLDN
The death of late-night TV is imminent. What would save it? If some of the people who are sad about Colbert's demise actually watched his show live. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
Sofia Coppola’s documentary ‘MARC BY SOFIA’ to premiere at the Venice Film Festival. It will tell the story of designer Marc Jacobs.
news: podcaster @JoeBudden is earning $1 million a month on Patreon, making him the highest earning creator on that platform. He opened the books for us nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…
News: On tonight’s Daily Show, guest is LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who announces that he is taking the newspaper public, per source in studio.
wearing this to my email job
Caitlin Clark’s shirt: “I DESERVE NBA MONEY” 👀
A profile of Brett Cooper, a conservative YouTuber who uses celebrity news to argue against feminism and abortion rights, as she becomes a Fox News contributor (@jtes / New York Times) nytimes.com/2025/07/19/bus… mediagazer.com/250721/p1#a250…
here is a story about Sequoia Capital, the preeminent venture firm in Silicon Valley, and how a power-tweeting partner landed a firm that has tried to stay neutral on politics directly in the middle of the culture wars w/ @RMac18 nytimes.com/2025/07/19/tec…
just married, cig & drink in hand, sat in front of lime bikes. the king and queen of east london. everything is romantic 💚
scoop: Substack has raised $100 million, pushing its valuation to $1.1 billion. The founders are warming to advertising and plan to experiment with bundles. With @jtes
New: Judge rules Don Lemon’s case against Elon Musk can go to trial From Lemon’s team:
NEW TONIGHT: @IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit, carving out an exemption to a decades-old ban on politicking by tax-exempt nonprofits. nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/…
In midnight deal, Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million to settle lawsuit that most experts viewed as baseless. The deal is the clearest sign yet of Trump’s ability to intimidate major American institutions. @BenMullin @LaurenSHirsch @grynbaum nytimes.com/2025/07/02/bus…