Matt Welch

2 days ago | wethefifth.com | Matt Welch

Seven months and several lifetimes ago, just after the U.S. presidential election, I asked listeners of The Fifth Column to share names of who/what in the journalism/media space they trust or find useful, in the hopes of building a better media ecosystem from the ground up. That prompt generated 320 comments, some with dozens of suggestions, so it has taken a bit longer than projected to repackage the recs in digestible form.

2 days ago | open.substack.com | Matt Welch

Seven months and several lifetimes ago, just after the U.S. presidential election, I asked listeners of The Fifth Column to share names of who/what in the journalism/media space they trust or find useful, in the hopes of building a better media ecosystem from the ground up. That prompt generated 320 comments, some with dozens of suggestions, so it has taken a bit longer than projected to repackage the recs in digestible form.

4 days ago | reason.com | Peter Suderman |Katherine Mangu-Ward |Matt Welch |Nick Gillespie

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1 week ago | wethefifth.com | Matt Welch

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -22:24Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Look, you people (OK, like five of you) demanded it, so now yer gonna get it, good and Californian: A cassingle on the late, great Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, and some perhaps under-known ways in which he and they shaped the music industry and culture that we continue to live in today.

1 week ago | reason.com | Matt Welch

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