For the last two years, Oliver Darcy was the reporter most of the media industry went to bed reading. At the helm of CNN's popular Reliable Sources newsletter, Darcy provided a steady current of reporting, analysis and opinion on the media industry, which landed in inboxes several nights a week.
People are tired of sanitized, soulless news, he told Mediaite editor in chief Aidan McLaughlin on this week's episode of Press Club. They want a human being at the other side of the platform, especially if this is the last thing they are reading before they go to bed.
The newsletter is premium, with the cheapest membership starting at $15 per month or $150 per year. What Status is aiming to do is yes, there's a reported column at the top, but I'm going to tell you everything that happened in the information wars today, or in Silicon Valley, or with Hollywood.
Darcy defended his coverage which often took the media to task for being insufficiently tough on Donald Trump: I think that I just was more candid and plainspoken than a lot of other people who might write around that or massage the language so it sounds a little less provocative.
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