Left-leaning digital news network The Young Turks (TYT) has added a business-themed podcast to its recently-launched podcast network — a venture it unveiled in June alongside audio upstart Panoply Media to expand the reach of and cinch sponsors for a number of shows.
The latest series to join the TYT audio family is Pitchfork Economics, hosted by Nick Hanauer and primarily focusing on issues like income inequality and fair wages — as told from the perspective of a successful capitalist. Hanauer was the first non-family investor in Amazon, and a company he founded called aQuantive was ultimately acquired by Microsoft for $6.4 billion. Today, Hanauer is the founder of Civic Ventures — a self-described “group of political troublemakers devoted to ideas, policies, and actions that catalyze significant social change.”
Forthcoming episodes of Pitchfork Economics — rolling out every Tuesday — will feature conversations with notable guests from the political and economic realms, including Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and Washington state Representative Pramila Jayapal. “This is not just economics from a progressive perspective,” TYT founder and CEO Cenk Uygur said in a statement, “it’s economics from a reality-based perspective.”
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Other podcasts within the TYT podcast network include Ana Kasparian‘s #NoFilter, The Damage Report with John Iadarola, We The People With Nina Turner, The Jimmy Dore Show, and more.
“We have to get the country back on track and the core of that is to make sure that every American who has a job gets paid enough to live a dignified life without relying on food stamps,” Hanauser said in a statement. He added that the series will “highlight the ways in which all of the conversation around economics in our country both on the right and left has been hijacked by a bunch of terrible neo-liberal ideas.”
