It may be a seemingly quiet Friday in the media business, but a number of latent storylines continue to bubble up: what’s going on behind the scenes at Semafor, the high-level programming decisions inside CNN and MSNBC, along with some M&A chatter. Herewith, I discuss it all and more with Jon Kelly, Puck’s co-founder and my editor and partner.
Jon Kelly: Dylan, it’s T-minus a couple weeks or so until Semafor launches. Ben and Justin have been showing a bit more leg—publishing a few pre-launch articles on Medium, announcing more hires, and clearly spending meaningful marketing dollars across social platforms to amplify an audience to start selling ads against. What are you hearing and thinking?
