Side Projects Podcast
Side Projects Podcast
with Clara Malley, Eli Williams, and Trey Taylor
Media vet Brian Morrissey on what the “AI Pope” and Succession tell us about the media landscape
52 minutes Posted Apr 7, 2023 at 2:24 pm.
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The crew chats with Brian Morrissey, author of The Rebooting newsletter and former editor-in-chief of Digiday. He gives us his take on how the “Drip Pope”—the AI-generated image of Pope Francis that went viral recently—and “high-visibility, execution-dependent disruptor news brand” The Hundred, a media company pitched in HBO’s Succession, offer a frighteningly accurate glimpse into the current landscape of media and publishing.

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