Corporate America is going through a political reckoning.

Did it all start with a newsletter?

And how can sub-stacks and other types of newsletters be used not for opinion, not for

point of view, but for real investigative reporting?

Those are a couple of the questions for this week's Reliable Sources podcast.

So let's cue the music.

I'm Brian Stelter and this weekly podcast is our chance to go more in-depth, talking

with newsmakers and media leaders about how the news gets made.

For a couple of years now I've been really intrigued by a newsletter called Popular Information.

It's founded and authored by Judd Legham, who has a history and democratic politics

working for Hillary Clinton and in left-leaning media working for think progress.

But about three years ago he ventured off on his own and launched this newsletter on

the sub-stack platform, which back then a lot of people hadn't heard of yet.

Legham has built up popular information to have a real power, a real force, and a real

audience for investigative reporting.

And when I mentioned up top about corporations having a political reckoning, well that's

borrowing from a headline from Bloomberg back in January.

The headline on Jerry Smith's article says, corporations' political reckoning began with

a newsletter, a newsletter called Popular Information.

So a few months after that post riot reckoning, let's check in with Judd, he is joining me

now here on the pod.

Judd, thanks for coming on.

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