Megyn Kelly Just Shook Up The Media World With Blockbuster Announcement

Posted • March 25, 2025: If there's anyone who has their finger on the pulse of the modern media world, it's Megyn Kelly. And, now, she's taking everything she learned from her days working at corporate media outlets like Fox News and NBC, along with lessons learned during her more recent foray into independent media, and creating her own podcast network. Kelly announced the birth of MK Media on Tuesday morning, telling her audience that the exciting new venture will be a "podcast network of video and audio shows, which we are going to produce and help promote." Kelly said they would be "launching with three out of the gate," with the new shows set to premiere in April and May. […] The announcement comes as much of the media world is still grappling—or, more likely, completely ignoring—with the reality that many consumers, especially younger people, go to trusted personalities for their news, not to legacy media sites and certainly not to dinosaurs like network news.

We saw this play out spectacularly during the 2024 presidential election, as personalities like Joe Rogan and Theo Von became both go-to news sources for information on the campaigns and the holy grail for candidates who wanted to get their message out to those huge audiences. It was a complete game changer. The legacy media seem utterly confused by the landscape shifting rapidly beneath them, but Megyn Kelly clearly had no such qualms and ran with it. That's why she's expanding her media empire, while places like CNN and MSNBC are trying to dump their dead weight. (…)

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