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Recommended by Ken Basin

The Mediator explores the structural changes reshaping the media industry and what they mean for the media business, culture, and society. I try to get at the why, not just the what.

jhandel.news

By Jonathan Handel

Staying in touch with friends, colleagues, clients, connections and readers. Topics range across entertainment law, reviews, news, poetry&politics and more. About 1x/month. From Jonathan Handel.

The Entertainment Strategy Guy

The best writing on entertainment strategy including a weekly "Streaming Ratings Report", unpacking what shows and films are winning the streaming wars.

Media War & Peace

By Evan Shapiro

Reports from the War for Attention from Media Cartographer Evan Shapiro.

Business of TV

By Jen Topping

Discover everything TV and film producers need to know to plan for the future in our age of internet disruption, without hype or oversimplification.

If something can have a name THIS similar to the name of my own book/Substack, and I still like it, it must be good. Jen Topping's writing confidently cuts across and synthesizes the "traditional" TV business (including premium streaming) with the worlds of YouTube, influencers/creators, and short-form/social video, and brings a healthy dose of non-U.S. perspective to her discussion of a truly global business.

- Ken Basin

A Gentleman's Film Journal

By James Smith

Gentlemen prefer film.