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There's much more in the full interview with Dan Swan, which can be found in its entirety on wired.com. Also, check out McKinsey's playbook, Rewired, available at your favorite bookseller. From Wired, this is The Big Interview, where we'll get to know the people beyond the headlines in conversations that explore the intersection of technology, power, and culture. I'm Katie Drummond, Wired's global editorial director. My guest today is Rebecca Cutler. She's the president of cable news channel MSNOW, formerly known as MSNBC. It was Rebecca who oversaw that rebrand late last year, which, in spite of early polling suggesting otherwise, has been a massive success. Since that rebrand, MSNOW has experienced continuous double-digit audience growth, no small feat these days for TV news. And this month, they're launching their inaugural direct-to-consumer offering, the MSNOW membership. Rebecca got her start as a production assistant at CNN more than 20 years ago, working her way up through the ranks and eventually winning an Emmy Award, 2 Peabody Awards, and 2 DuPont Columbia Awards. No big deal. Rebecca, thank you so much for being here today.
Katie Drummond · Uncanny Valley _ WIRED · MS NOW Wants to Turn Its Viewers Into a Fandom · 2026-09-09Oh, if I can get on my high horse about that for one second, I— there is nothing that has made me feel more confident and a bigger fan of actually local news and the definition of public service that they provide than what we went through in LA over the course of the last couple of years with the fires and then with the ICE raids. I don't know if you know them, but I would love to give them a shout out. LA Taco is a small independent media organization out here in LA. Memo Torres, Izzy Ramirez, who is almost on a daily basis track the ICE raids here. KABC won a Peabody Award because of their coverage during the fires.
Jacob Soboroff · Pivot · Apple Bows to Trump, Bond Market Sounds the Alarm, and Kalshi Bans George Santos · 2026-09-04