Ex-CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon Joins Beehiiv as Advisor
Former CBS News president and CEO Wendy McMahon will serve as an advisor to the newsletter platform beehiiv, co-founder and CEO Tyler Denk announced on Tuesday. "She's an absolute rockstar and will help us to continue to push the limits of what's possible in this new age of independent journalism," Denk wrote in a blog post. "The old models are broken, and the new platforms (i.e. Substack) are deploying a dangerous playbook of writer exploitation and platform lock-in." Since launching in 2021, newsletters on beehiiv have generated tens of millions of dollars each month and dozens . . .