Media Roundtable

There are plenty of talking heads in the media. But how many became part of the news cycle themselves, over and over again, on the largest stories of the last century? Enter former corporate-attorney-turned-journalist, Megyn Kelly. In this week’s episode, we’ll cover the good, bad, and ugly of Kelly’s career while she shares her perspective on which advertisers are and are not a good fit to sponso...

What can manners teach you about marketing? Based on this week’s episode, quite a lot. Emmy Award-winning journalist Nick Leighton and stand-up comic Leah Bonnema are the creators of the hit podcast Were You Raised By Wolves? a show about etiquette and manners in everyday life, and they join The Media Roundtable to connect what mamma taught you to a sound business strategy. See Privacy Policy at h...

Success has many fathers, but FOMO only has one. His name is Patrick McGinnis. Yes, he’s a venture capitalist, writer, speaker, and creator/host of the hit podcast FOMO Sapiens, boasting over 2 million downloads, but his true place in history has been secured as the literal inventor of the Oxford Dictionary-recognized word “FOMO” (Fear of Missing Out), naming the psychological force that has shape...

Years ago, advertisers could essentially run their commercials anywhere, as long as they hit their marketing objectives. But today, more and more advertisers demand far deeper insights than just what their ads mean to their bottom line. Marketing in today’s climate is about not only knowing if something “works” or not but, you want to feel good about the media you support. To that end, we’re excit...

They say history repeats itself, so there may be no better person than American history aficionado and podcast mastermind, Lindsay Graham to show us what we have in store for the future of the medium. Lindsay’s podcast pedigree is unmatched, with nearly everything he touches worthy of sponsorship consideration for most advertisers. This week, he gives an insider’s look at the myriad of things it t...

Our conversation begins in the 1960s, when Guiliani, then a promising young Democrat, meets two men he admires: John and Bobby Kennedy. Two decades later, Guiliani is U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York prosecuting the heads of the five families, when John Gotti motions to order his assassination. Fast forward to 2001, we all know Giuliani’s role on 9/11 as the picture of leadershi...

The new season of The Media Roundtable will launch as our (dare we say) final iteration of the program, which will serve as a sort of “Unboxing” or “Buyer’s Guide” to personality-driven shows for brands and consumers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What do T-Pain, Bill O’Reilly, NYT’s Ben Smith, and leaders from GARM, IAB, and 4As all have in common? They are all featured in our season finale of The Media Roundtable Podcast .  We know you’ve been busy, so this should be a fun way to catch up as Dan guides you through curated clips. With American’s trust in media eroding and news consumption becoming more partisan by the minute, this podcast...

The Media Roundtable Podcast has been hard at work dismantling the Outrage Industrial Complex since early February. But the sun is shining, the vax is overtaking the mask, and while the work is far from done, it’s time for a break. For those of you who have been interested but haven’t gotten around to keeping up each week, we present to you our Cliff’s Notes guide to the first half of this season,...

Top-rated Cable News host for 16 years. Author of best-selling non-fiction series of all time. Love him or hate him, you can’t talk about the state of modern media without acknowledging Bill O’Reilly’s influence. As our guest on this week’s episode of The Media Roundtable, Bill O’Reilly provides a path to understanding how we got here, through the lens of his own career, and the strategies he empl...

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Translation: “Who Watches the Watchmen?” This is the question posed in this week’s episode of The Media Roundtable by our guest, Will Phipps. Phipps is dedicated to charging Brands and Marketers with saving local journalism through his organization, Protect Our Press . We discuss the importance of local and reasons why we must unite to support this critical part of t...

Here’s what happens when you interview a once-in-a-generation journalist to discuss the wildly divisive industry he helped to create. Ben Smith is the journalist’s journalist and has been described as one of the most powerful men in media. He was on the front lines as Politico turned political journalism upside down, eating The Washington Post’s lunch until Jeff Bezos rescued them. Then as Editor-...

Entrepreneur, disrupter, and recent author, Kara Goldin is Founder & CEO of the fabulously successful Hint Inc., where she successfully created a category for unsweetened flavored water, transitioned from reliance on retail to opening D2C, and proved naysayers wrong at every turn. Everything about Kara and the company she founded shows that doing well by doing good can be wildly successful. As our...

This week’s guest, Steve Deace, is not exactly the poster boy for the Media Roundtable values. Particularly our values of Tolerance, Respect, and De-escalation. As Host of the Steve Deace Show through Blaze Media, he is an energetic, committed conservative that knows what he believes, why he believes it, and seeks to serve his audience with both entertainment and truth to the best of his understan...

This week on The Media Roundtable, we are joined by Ciaran O’Connor, Chief Marketing Officer at Braver Angels, an organization founded after the 2016 election in order to bridge our divided country by engaging with communities directly. O’Connor knows we have deep disagreements in this country, but believes that's the way it's supposed to be; it’s how we interact with whom we disagree that needs t...

The Media Roundtable has played host to multiple Emmy Award-Winning Journalists, Media Titans, Podcast Personalities, and a former Speaker of the House. Still, we’ve never had a guest like T-Pain. This Rapper turned Singer turned Entrepreneur has won two Grammys, has collaborated with everyone from Lil Wayne to Taylor Swift, and disrupted the music industry with his innovative use of Autotune. The...

This week on The Media Roundtable, we are joined by Brad Berens, Editor in Chief at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) , who’s membership accounts for 86% of online advertising in the US, including podcasts.   Brad is not only one of the best informed minds in our industry, he also brings keen insights to bear. Among them, he describes a future where many corporations do not survive. This an...

This week, on The Media Roundtable, we are joined by Emmy award-winning journalists Jill Wagner and Carlo Versano. Jill is an anchor for Financial News Network, at Cheddar, where Carlo is a Senior Producer. Together they Co-host Need2Know, a daily consumer-focused newsletter, and podcast. Jill and Carlo seem to have found a formula for reporting the news, sharing perspectives, but removing the vit...

This week, Dan sits down with; Marla Kaplowitz ( 4A’s ) and Rob Rakowitz ( GARM ). Between these two masters of media, they support over 90% of global marketing spend including every brand you can think of. Tasked with addressing the largest problems facing marketers, brand safety is a primary focus. If you want a view from the top, this episode provides specific advice for brands and agencies and...

This week on The Media Roundtable, Dan sits down with nationally syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt. In the world of political talk, Hugh is an enigma. On one hand Hugh is a Pro-Trumper, President of the Richard Nixon Foundation, and unabashed conservative. Yet he’s applauded by leaders on the “other side” like Al Sharpton, Joy Reid, and Dr. Fauci. How does it all work? Whether it’s behind the mic...

Two weeks ago, we announced the launch of the first ever Media Bias Chart for Podcasts. This week, we demonstrate what a 100% brand safe podcast sounds like. That’s right, a real content example that any creator can follow to unite our polarized nation while allowing zero chance of giving offense. We’re calling it, The Sound of Safety and we think you’ll be quite entertained. So sit back, and enjo...

This week on Media Roundtable, Dan interviews former NASA space engineer, youngest and first female Vice President for Rolls Royce, and current CEO and co-founder of the news comparison website Ground News, Harleen Kaur to discuss her solution to bias in the media. Kaur shares how she used her engineering mind to solve the problem of identifying media bias and evaluating news stories from a more d...

This week on The Media Roundtable, Dan sits down with NPR’s media critic, Eric Deggans. Much more than an “idiot box,” Deggans argues that TV is not just important, it is the “heartbeat of society”. Deggans shares why believes the medium “ultimately tells us things about society and the conversations we're having about family, romance, employment, race, and gender." See Privacy Policy at https://a...

Dan interviews two guests who personify what we’re trying to achieve on this podcast. Jean Card worked as a top Republican communicator, including cabinet-level speechwriting in the George W. Bush administration, while Robert Schlesinger built a career as a journalist and Managing Editor for Opinion at U.S. News & World Report. On paper, their political views are miles apart, yet Jean and Robe...

This week on Media Roundtable , we shift to a more traditional “roundtable format”, with Dan interviewing two veteran media practitioners; Radio Host Bill Handel and Marketing Guru Scott MacDonell who share the inside scoop on how to make radio endorsements work. The three also discuss how the respective approaches to their craft have changed over the years amidst shifting political climates and s...