This week marked my first as deputy editor at Status, and I’m excited to help advance the mission that Oliver, Jon, Natalie, and the team have built: delivering deeply sourced reporting and accountability journalism about the media industry, the powerful people who shape it, and the information ecosystem that affects us all.
I’ve spent much of my career in business media, including stints at Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, and at The Wharton School’s publishing arm, editing business books. One lesson I’ve learned along the way is that media stories are rarely just media stories. They’re also stories about incentives, strategy, money, and power.
Which brings me to Sherwood News. When the popular stock trading app Robinhood launched Sherwood in early 2023, it did so with great fanfare and ambition. The company recruited Joshua Topolsky—the co-founder of The Verge and co-creator of Vox Media—to build and lead a standalone editorial operation. Robinhood structured Sherwood as an independent media subsidiary, building on its earlier acquisition of MarketSnacks, publisher of the popular Snacks newsletter. The vision extended beyond newsletters with original reporting, analysis, events, podcasts, video, and a broader editorial brand capable of standing on its own. One media executive described the venture as “a brilliant move from a media standpoint.”
But three years later, Status has learned that Robinhood has…
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Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks at Snowflake Summit 2025 in San Francisco. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Big Tech blockbuster: Apple is suing OpenAI, accusing the Sam Altman-led company of stealing trade secrets. The iPhone maker also named two OpenAI employees in the suit, both of whom previously worked at Apple. [Bloomberg]
The complaint details what Apple alleges is a coordinated effort ‘at every level’ to steal Apple's confidential information. It’s part of a striking deterioration in relations between the two companies, which just two years ago entered into a high-profile partnership.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta abruptly paused its new feature that allowed anyone to use public Instagram posts…
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