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Grid News
Grid News, also known as Grid, was a digital media company based in Washington, D.C. It launched in January 2022. Grid News was initially led by Mark Bauman as a senior advisor and Laura McGann as its executive editor. It produced a podcast called "Bad Takes" hosted by Grid editors Matthew Yglesias and McGann. The conversational podcast covered one "bad take," or incorrect opinion, each week. Grid's corporate entity was Media Investment Properties OpCo LLC, a Delaware domestic limited liability company. On March 22, 2023, Grid, its brand, and its assets were purchased for an undisclosed price by ''The Messenger (website), The Messenger'', a news startup led by Jimmy Finkelstein, former owner of ''The Hill (newspaper), The Hill''. On March 27, 2023, Grid's website was shuttered and redirected to ''The Messenger'''s website. Overview Grid News employs a format it calls a "360," which breaks down potentially complex stories by approaching them from various lenses, such as Race (hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias (; born May 18, 1981) is a liberal American blogger and journalist who writes about economics and politics. Yglesias has written columns and articles for publications such as ''The American Prospect'', ''The Atlantic'', and ''Slate''. In November 2020, he left his position as an editor and columnist for the news website ''Vox'', which he co-founded in 2014, to publish the Substack newsletter ''Slow Boring''. Early life and education Yglesias's father Rafael Yglesias is a screenwriter and novelist, and he has a brother named Nicolas. His paternal grandparents were novelists Jose Yglesias and Helen Yglesias (née Bassine). His paternal grandfather was of Cuban and Spanish Galician descent, and his three other grandparents were of Eastern European Jewish descent. Yglesias went to high school at the Dalton School in New York City. He attended Harvard University, where he was editor in chief of ''The Harvard Independent'' and graduated in 2003 with a B.A. ''magna cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |