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SiriusXM to Launch ‘Mediaite’s Press Club’ in Bid to Woo Media-News Crowd
SiriusXM will launch a new show, Mediaite's Press Club, which will put a spotlight on the intersection of media and politics
The hope is for such “flagship” interviews to last for as long as 30 or 40 minutes, McLaughlin says, creating “almost like a magazine profile of each guest.” The show will also feature discussions of the weeks’ events with Mediaite personalities as well as reporters from other outlets who cover the media industry. Among the notables he’d love to snag for an in-depth conversation in the reclusive news influential Matt Drudge or Matthias Dopfer, the CEO of Axel Springer, which has established a strong U.S. presence via its purchases of Politico, Business Insider and Morning Brew. The entrepreneur, who also anchors a program on “NewsNation” and contributes to ABC’s “Good Morning America,” sold his Law & Crime legal-media outlet to Jellysmack in October of last year for approximately $125 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction.
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