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Brian Stilter is our guest today. He spent nine

years at CNN as the host of Reliable Sources, which was the network's longest running show.

And then it was canceled last summer, leaving Brian on the outside looking in. As a media

critic, Stelters really lived the story that he's reported on. He was a host at a network that was

fighting an unstoppable march of its audience toward digital channels. He was a host at a network that was fighting an unstoppable

march of its audience toward digital channels. He was at CNN as it worked to find itself. Was it

going to be a left-leaning network? Something more centrist? Was it going to be news? Was it going to be

opinion? And he was part of the mainstream media as it grappled with its place,

next to ascending and competing formats like Facebook, TikTok, and, well,

podcasts. Also, despite hosting only once a week, Stelter became one of CNN's best-known personalities,

notable for his fierce criticism of the Trump administration and Trump himself. And that,

and I'm only speculating, may well have ended up being what cost him his show.

I love speaking with people who've recently left their jobs because we can look back on a span of time and see where's the world going?

Also, they tend to be more open than they would otherwise, but I definitely recommend paying attention to what Stelter doesn't say along with what he does. And I think,

and you'll hear this in the conversation, we can just learn a ton about the state of media,

tech, and business by asking Brian, what happened? So let's do that. My conversation with Brian

Stelter right after this. Hey, I'm Michael Kovnet, host of The Next Big Idea Daily.

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