Puck Launches 'The Grill Room' Podcast with Media Insider Dylan Byers, Featuring Top Industry Executives

Puck, the innovative new media company focused on putting journalists at the center of its business model, announced the launch of a new podcast hosted by Dylan Byers, Puck’s founding partner and senior correspondent.

The Grill Room, an homage to the exclusive dining room within The Four Seasons where a generation of media executives consummated deals and traded gossip, is produced in partnership with leading premium podcast network Audacy Podcasts. New episodes will drop every Tuesday and Friday starting on October 29th. Upcoming episodes of the podcast will include interviews with Brian Williams, David Zaslav, Jim VandeHei, Emma Tucker, Don Lemon, and many other top executives and talent.

The Grill Room will cover what’s happening in the media industry, bringing listeners inside the conversation with the television personalities, media moguls, political pundits and industry executives driving the day’s headlines. Host Dylan Byers, a veteran media reporter covering the business of entertainment and news media, joined Puck as a founding partner in September of 2021. Before Puck, Dylan worked at NBC News, CNN, and Politico as a media reporter. Dylan’s private email newsletter, In the Room, reports on the inner workings of American media, bringing readers into his notebook as he reports on the biggest stories and egos in the industry.

“Dylan isn’t simply required reading in the media business—he’s a combination of Must See-TV, the Voice of God, and the industry’s ultimate arbiter-referee-biographer,” said Jon Kelly, co-founder of Puck. “His audience has been waiting for this podcast for ages, and I’m thrilled that we are able to deliver it for them during an exciting inflection point in our business.”

“In three years, In the Room has become an absolute must-read newsletter for power players in media, entertainment, and politics looking for the inside view on what’s really going on,” said Dylan Byers, founding partner and senior correspondent at Puck. “In The Grill Room, we want to bring you inside the conversations I'm having with those power players, and offer listeners the real stories taking place behind the headlines."

“Dylan is the best at what he does by a long shot–he’s the smartest and best sourced journalist on the media beat, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to further expand our thriving Puck slate with ‘The Grill Room,’” said Jenna Weiss-Berman, EVP, Audacy Podcasts.

The Grill Room will be Puck’s eighth podcast and its sixth with Audacy. Puck launched The Varsity by John Ourand last month, which covers all things sports business, including the leagues, agencies, media deals, and the egos fueling it all. Puck also recently launched Impolitic with John Heilemann, a leading podcast for political insiders hosted by Puck's chief political columnist John Heilemann, and Fashion People, a podcast discussing the latest in the fashion world hosted by Puck’s fashion correspondent Lauren Sherman. It also co-produces The Powers That Be: Daily, The Town, and Somebody’s Gotta Win. Last year it released About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin. Puck podcasts can be found on their website, the Audacy app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere podcasts are available.

With industry-leading coverage across Wall Street, Washington, the media, the fashion industry and Hollywood, Puck has become an obsession for an extremely influential audience. The company offers access to the inaccessible—the story behind the story, the plot only the insider’s know, without partisan bias and with a dose of mirth. Nearly half of subscribers are C-suite or Senior Executives, including about a third of the C.E.O.s on the Fortune 100 and nearly three quarters of Fortune 50 Leadership executive teams.

About Puck

Puck, which was founded in 2021, covers the inside conversation at the nexus of Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, the media, and fashion. The company has introduced an innovative business model premised on treating journalists as influencers by offering them equity and performance bonuses. The New York Times referred to Puck as “Vanity Fair for the Substack Era.” Puck’s founding investors are Standard Investments and TPG. J. Rothschild Capital Management led the Series B investment round, alongside the founding investors.

About Audacy

Audacy, Inc. is a leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company that connects with 200 million consumers. Powered by its exclusive, premium audio content that includes unrivaled leadership positions in news and sports radio, Audacy operates one of the country’s two scaled radio broadcasting groups, a rapidly growing direct-to-consumer digital audio platform, multiple audio networks, a major event business and a leading, award-winning podcast studio. Learn more atwww.audacyinc.com,Facebook,X,LinkedInandInstagram.

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