Two big questions on this week's podcast. What the heck happened this year? And what should we expect on the media beat in 2020.

Welcome to this week's Reliable Sources Podcast.

I'm your host, Brian Stelter,

and we love at the end of the year to get the CNN media team together

for a conversation about what happened in the media

business, in the news business, and in entertainment and in culture. all of these stories and shows that fill up the screens

that we carry around every day.

There's been a lot of news of course involving President Trump in the media.

There have been big developments at Fox News and other networks.

And there have also been major changes in the entertainment business

at Disney and other major media companies.

So I have four reporters here with me to talk through all of it,

to remind us of the stories that we've probably forgotten

at the end of this long 12 months of 2019.

CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy is here.

He specializes in covering political media. Carrie Flynn is here. She's the newest addition to our team

covering digital media and publishing and other parts of the wide media world.

Frank Pallada, who covers entertainment and media stories like Disney Plus and Star Wars and the so-called

streaming wars, and Chloe Mellis, who covers the entertainment space, celebrities, culture, all of those stories for CNN.

All right, let's get started. Thanks for joining me, everybody.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Happy to be here, Brian. We're excited. We are sitting around the Don Lemon table up here on the 19th floor of our new Hudson Yards headquarters.

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