Penske Media Corporation founder Jay Penske. (Photo by Simon Galloway/LAT Images for Formula E)
Just a few days ago, on Sunday evening, Mehdi Hasan announced via Semafor that he had poached from Rolling Stone politics reporters Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez. The prominent reporters, Hasan said, will be charged with breaking stories for Zeteo that aren’t “afraid to call out the people in power.” Hasan (rightly) argued that “independent journalism cannot afford to be defined only by the ‘hot take’ factories out there.”
While I'm told that Suebsaeng and Perez are genuinely excited to be joining Hasan’s Substack-housed publication, their journey to Zeteo was not initially driven out of a desire to find another career opportunity. In fact, I’m told that both were thrilled to be working at the iconic music and culture magazine and not actively seeking to jump ship. Instead, according to people familiar with the matter…
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Kennedy's Baier Hug: Fox News likes to tout Bret Baier as a tough, unflinching news anchor. But in his Tuesday interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Baier lobbed softballs, failing to aggressively challenge the anti-vaccine HHS secretary on his cascade of controversial moves at the agency—moves that scientists and health groups have condemned. Instead, Baier…
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