The Next Media Moguls: 57 of the most successful media entrepreneurs reveal their secrets

I interviewed 57 of the world's most successful media entrepreneurs, and they walked me through, step by step, how they built their businesses. This books contains 229,000 words and 497 pages worth of insights that you can use in building your own media business.

This book is available in PDF and EPUB formats.

Chapters include:

1. How Living Cozy built a successful ecommerce business by reviewing furniture and household appliances
2. How Freetrail carved out a media niche for one of the country's fastest-growing sports
3. How the Sunday Long Read newsletter built a thriving membership by curating longform journalism
4. How the GameDiscoverCo newsletter launched a data product for game developers
5. How the Tangle newsletter reached 77,000 readers and $624,000 in annual revenue
6. How Oovvuu grew its video platform to over 400 million streams per day
7. How a blog about the VC industry generated over $1 million from online courses
8. How a B2B outlet that covers the corporate travel industry built up a loyal subscriber base
9. How Man of Many grew into the largest men's lifestyle media outlet in Australia
10. How a former travel journalist built a paid membership community for the PR industry
11. How Hubspot built a massive newsletter and podcast audience
12. How two graduate students launched the leading biotech publisher in Europe
13. How a kids-focused podcaster reached 1 million monthly downloads
14. How a former Cosmo editor built Australia's largest women-focused media company
15. How a college student launched one of the most influential B2B sports media companies
16. How a podcast for entrepreneurial parents generates $200,000 a year
17. How Starter Story grew to 1.4 million monthly visitors and $500,000 in annual revenue
18. How Big Cabal Media became one of the fastest-growing news outlets in Africa
19. How an interest in whiskey birthed a thriving media company
20. How Maria Brito used Instagram to build a 7-figure art consulting business
21. How an engineering student accidentally started a thriving science news site
22. Was Randy Cassingham the first member of the Creator Economy?
23. Judd Legum proved that investigative journalism can thrive on Substack
24. How The Art of Manliness built its loyal audience
25. How Richard Rushfield founded one of Hollywood’s most influential newsletters
26. How The Discourse scaled its business model to 34 local news sites
27. Daily Detroit is proving there’s a market for local podcasts
28. How a VC investor grew her newsletter to over 100,000 subscribers
29. The economics of ghostwriting books
30. How the Daily Upside grew to over 1 million subscribers
31. How Philip Taylor built FinCon, the leading conference for personal finance creators
32. How TAPinto sells local ads across 90 news sites
33. How Jared Newman built Cord Cutter Weekly, a TV streaming newsletter with 32,000 subscribers
34. How Local News Now built its loyal audience
35. How Gary Arndt built Everything Everywhere, a podcast with 1.5 million monthly downloads
36. How The Future Party collaborates with the world's largest brands to host events
37. How Colossus built one of the largest investing-focused podcast networks
38. How Mission Local spun off from UC Berkeley and became a self-sustaining news outlet
39. How Alex Halperin built WeedWeek, a B2B outlet that covers California's cannabis industry
40. How Project Brazen builds huge audiences for its narrative podcasts
41. How Tim Burrowes helped build Mumbrella into a $7 million media brand
42. How Dan Oshinsky used his popular newsletter to grow his consulting business
43. How Andrew Curtin built Construction Wave, a B2B outlet covering the UK's construction industry
44. How Mignon Fogarty launched a massively successful series of online courses
45. How Stacker distributes sponsored content to thousands of publishers
46. How State House News charges $4,000 for access to its journalism
47. How Block Club Chicago reached 20,000 paying subscribers
48. How Keith Pepper turned an Atlanta newspaper chain into a digital-first media company
49. How Eric Siu leveraged his hugely popular podcasts to grow his ad agency
50. Is there life after CNN? Chris Cillizza hopes so
51. How Eric Newcomer scaled his startups newsletter into a $2 million business
52. Why the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employees
53. How three Morning Brew alums are building their own network of niche media outlets
54. This YouTuber amassed a half million social media followers by interviewing touring musicians
55. How Jonathan Skogmo disrupted the viral video clip economy — and plans to do the same in travel media
56. How two college friends reunited to build a thriving politics podcast
57. How Medium finally pivoted its way to profitability