This past weekend, Vox Media chief executive Jim Bankoff convened with the company’s board to discuss the future of the digital media publisher. Vox, which is behind titles such as New York Magazine, Vox, Eater, SB Nation, and The Verge, also operates a podcasting business best known for hit shows like the Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway-hosted “Pivot.” Over Zoom, I’m told, Bankoff and the board discussed a number of suitors interested in acquiring the company’s podcasting network and some of its other assets.
Parties included Versant Media and James Murdoch. But Status has learned another serious party interested in some of the assets was…
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