Talking news and media with Max Fisher

- Hey friends, I've got some really exciting news for you, which is that we are launching another channel, this one with the person who taught me how to be a journalist, Max Fisher.

Back when I was a lowly animator finding my way in this world, Max was a reporter. He had been a foreign reporter for a decade.

He had a lot to teach me and I shadowed him. I wasn't really supposed to be writing scripts, but I was writing scripts when I was at Vox.

And Max would edit those scripts and we would make videos together. Eventually, we invented the map explainer format together.

Iran steps up its influence in... You see this now all the time on my channel. It's a mainstay of the channel.

But Max was a co-developer of that format. We then went our separate ways, I started my own channel here and he went off to be a columnist at "The New York Times" and then to become a podcaster.

He wrote this amazing book called "The Chaos Machine," and actually read his book and reached out to him and said, "Hey, we should reconnect."

So we reconnected. And I floated this idea like, "What if you came over and started a channel here at Newpress where we are building creator-led channels with journalists who care about explaining things and helping audiences understand the crazy news environment we live in.

We've been working on that for about a year now. And today it's live. It's called "The Bigger Picture" with Max Fisher.

And it will be your guide to understand the tumultuous news environment that we live in right now. Not outrage and opinion and fear-mongering, this is going to be rigorous reporting that helps you understand what is happening in the world, helps you make sense of it,

helps you aggregate all of the things that are happening so that you don't feel so overwhelmed. He's gonna publish a lot more than I publish on my channel because he's very prolific and much faster.

So "The Bigger Picture" is live right now. You can see the link in the description and if you like what you see on this channel, you're gonna like what's over there.