Media Still Matters (with Jessica Yellin)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

Parenting, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, News, Mental Health, Politics

4.7 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, Jessica Yellin founded News Not Noise. She’d spent 17 years working in TV news (including as CNN’s Chief White House correspondent) and through those years, she learned that traditional news media is really good at generating anxiety and ratings. What it isn’t so good at is helping people understand what’s really going on (at least, not without a daily panic attack). What we really needed was… well, the news without the noise. Meanwhile, around that same time, Katie Paris was seeing...

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0:00.0	The media impacts every single issue. And so I think it's important that we remember that these
0:08.4	issues are ultimately personal for us.
0:15.5	We came to make a change.
0:18.7	Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us.
0:21.4	I'm Katie Paris, the founder of Red Wine and Blue.
0:24.5	And I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time yoga instructor, self-care advocate, and the chief people
0:29.1	officer here at Red Wine and Blue.
0:31.1	Okay, so LaFonda, today we are sharing my conversation with journalist Jessica Yellen.
0:37.0	She worked in traditional media for years,
0:39.7	including as CNN's chief White House correspondent, but she was one of the first to move to
0:45.2	digital media like podcasts and substack. Red Wine and Blue is launching a partnership with her community,
0:51.4	News Not Noise, so I'm really excited to share this conversation.
0:56.8	But before we get to that, how was your Thanksgiving, LaFonda? It was good. It was good. I got to
1:03.6	spend time with family, got to rest a little bit. I had some family here from Kansas City because the chiefs played the cowboys.
1:14.9	We will not talk about the game.
1:17.0	Okay.
1:17.5	No problem.
1:18.3	It was a disaster.
1:19.3	Anyway, there's that.
1:20.5	But everyone was in town and we just had it.
1:23.6	We had a great time.
1:24.4	So it was good.
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