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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Chuck Todd to Launch Sunday Politics Show at Noosphere
Chuck Todd will be talking politics on Sundays again, but this time the former 'Meet the Press' host will be doing it on a new show on Noosphere, a recently-launched mobile news platform. The new show, dubbed 'Sunday Night with Chuck Todd,' was announced on Tuesday and will start streaming on the app next month. Todd's show will feature 'candid, face-to-face interviews with influential Washington newsmakers from iconic social spots,' according to the company's announcement. The show will aim to blend an in-depth look at the current political landscape with a 'fresh, social setting' for Todd and his guests to discuss the latest news. 'I could not be more excited about launching a new show with real conversations, in person, that cut through so much noise and loud opinion at a moment when it's needed the most,' Todd said in a statement. He continued: 'The show offers us a chance to break out of both network studios and home-based zoom calls, to where we can see people face to face in normal environments, and come to learn from one another what's really happening in Washington DC at this crucial time.' Terms of Todd's deal with Noosphere were not disclosed. His show will be executive produced by Yvette Vega, who was previously the EP on Charlie Rose's PBS program. Noosphere was founded last year by Jane Ferguson, a reporter for PBS and The New Yorker, and Sebastian Walker, the former Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Vice News. The platform aims to be the go-to spot for readers and viewers to find their favorite independent journalists; its app costs $19.99 per month. Todd lands at Noosphere after he left NBC, where he was the chief political analyst, earlier this year. He was at the network for 18 years and was the moderator on 'Meet the Press' from 2014 to 2023. Between leaving NBC and joining Noosphere, Todd has found a way to generate some news. Last month, he said the mainstream media was scared it would be perceived as 'helping Trump' if it reported on former President Joe Biden's cognitive decline. 'The only thing I can chalk it up to is this, whatever you want to call it, this fear that some members of the media had sometimes that they would be perceived as helping Trump if they somehow diminished Biden, right? That it was some sort of zero-sum game,' Todd told Piers Morgan. 'And I think this has been the fundamental mistake that many members of the traditional press have done.' The post Chuck Todd to Launch Sunday Politics Show at Noosphere appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Chuck Todd Joins Journalist-Creator Platform Noosphere, Will Host Interview Show
Former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd is getting back into the Sunday interview show game — albeit on a nontraditional platform. Todd is set to launch a show called Sunday Night With Chuck Todd on Noosphere, a platform that showcases individual journalists' work. The show will be the first regular series for Noosphere, available to stream through its app when the show premieres in June. More from The Hollywood Reporter Chuck Todd Wants to Reinvent Local News In a Big Way Kristen Welker Named New Moderator of NBC's 'Meet the Press' as Chuck Todd Set to Exit the Program The Midterms Will Be Streamed: Behind NBC's Election Night Plans Sunday Night With Chuck Todd will also break with the usual interview-show format by conducting its chats in restaurants, bars and other 'social spots' in and around Washington, D.C. 'I could not be more excited about launching a new show with real conversations, in person, that cut through so much noise and loud opinion at a moment when it's needed the most,' said Todd in a statement. 'The show offers us a chance to break out of both network studios and home-based Zoom calls, to where we can see people face to face in normal environments, and come to learn from one another what's really happening in Washington, D.C. at this crucial time.' Yvette Vega, a multiple Emmy winner for PBS' Charlie Rose, will executive produce Todd's show. Todd left NBC News in January and has dove headfirst into the creator economy, streaming his podcast on YouTube and other platforms and now joining Noosphere. 'I've been trying to figure out where can I go to sort of get into this space of trying to build a better [news] ecosystem, whether it's rebuilding it or building it from scratch,' he told The Hollywood Reporter in April. 'So for the last year and a half, I've been looking at different avenues.' Todd also told THR that he's looking for a way to stem the 'evisceration' of local news outlets, with sports as an entry point: 'My thesis is I think that youth sports and high school sports are community glue, and I think there is a way to use that community glue to create a revenue stream that can pay for the journalism.' Noosphere launched last year, founded by veteran journalists Jane Ferguson and Sebastian Walker. The subscription-based platform is designed to showcase the work of individual journalists and lets users follow their favorite contributors and gain access to their reporting. 'We are thrilled to welcome Todd to the platform,' said Ferguson. 'This reflects our commitment to the best political reporting and content from some of the most respected and beloved journalists and experts out there.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire
Bloomberg
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
Ex-NBC Host Chuck Todd Plans Online Show With Startup Noosphere
Chuck Todd, the former moderator of NBC's weekly news program Meet the Press, is launching a new app-based show with media startup Noosphere. Called Sunday Night With Chuck Todd, the politics-themed program starts June 1 and will feature one-on-one interviews filmed at popular restaurants and bars in Washington.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
TikTok-style news platform features independent journalists amid 'collapsing' traditional media industry
News journalists, led by a former war correspondent for PBS, are launching a news platform called Noosphere to respond to a rapidly shifting media industry. The platform is focused around mobile users and will feature a TikTok-style video feed and content from independent journalists that are vetted by the company, according to Semafor. "I had essentially built an incredibly successful career in an industry that was collapsing, which is a very weird place to be, where you just collect trophies while the audiences are getting smaller and the finances are not working," Noosphere CEO Jane Ferguson said. "And it became apparent to me that this was actually terminal, and certainly in the television business." Supreme Court Upholds Looming Tiktok Ban The platform will initially charge subscribers $15 a month, a price that will later increase to $19.99, with the revenue from users being shared among journalists and content creators for Noosphere. "What we really wanted to do is build the architecture for the best journalists to enter the content creator economy," Ferguson said. Read On The Fox News App Ferguson thought of the concept for Noosphere while teaching at Princeton, where she realized the traditional business model for reporters was rapidly disappearing. Tiktok Suppressed Content Critical Of Trump And 2020 Election Controversy, Exclusive Report Alleges Ferguson is one of a growing number of journalists and entrepreneurs that are moving to seize on rapidly shifting trends in the media industry. It is a transformation that played an especially important role in the 2024 campaign season, with both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris appearing on major podcasts in order to connect with young voters and appeal to a wider demographic base. Trump appeared on podcast giant Joe Rogan's show in late October in an interview that has gained over 56 million views since being posted on YouTube alone. News reports have revealed that Harris' campaign spent over six figures on Harris' appearance on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast. Fox News' Alexander Hall contributed to this article source: TikTok-style news platform features independent journalists amid 'collapsing' traditional media industry
Fox News
24-02-2025
- Business
- Fox News
TikTok-style news platform features independent journalists amid 'collapsing' traditional media industry
News journalists, led by a former war correspondent for PBS, are launching a news platform called Noosphere to respond to a rapidly shifting media industry. The platform is focused around mobile users and will feature a TikTok-style video feed and content from independent journalists that are vetted by the company, according to Semafor. "I had essentially built an incredibly successful career in an industry that was collapsing, which is a very weird place to be, where you just collect trophies while the audiences are getting smaller and the finances are not working," Noosphere CEO Jane Ferguson said. "And it became apparent to me that this was actually terminal, and certainly in the television business." The platform will initially charge subscribers $15 a month, a price that will later increase to $19.99, with the revenue from users being shared among journalists and content creators for Noosphere. "What we really wanted to do is build the architecture for the best journalists to enter the content creator economy," Ferguson said. Ferguson thought of the concept for Noosphere while teaching at Princeton, where she realized the traditional business model for reporters was rapidly disappearing. Ferguson is one of a growing number of journalists and entrepreneurs that are moving to seize on rapidly shifting trends in the media industry. It is a transformation that played an especially important role in the 2024 campaign season, with both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris appearing on major podcasts in order to connect with young voters and appeal to a wider demographic base. Trump appeared on podcast giant Joe Rogan's show in late October in an interview that has gained over 56 million views since being posted on YouTube alone. News reports have revealed that Harris' campaign spent over six figures on Harris' appearance on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast.
