We're reading: Here's a helpful hint for people starting a media company in 2024

"Ocean's Thirteen" was written by the father of Sam Koppelman, one of Hunterbrook Media's co-founders. The movie stars Matt Damon, who sent a letter of recommendation on Koppelman's behalf to Harvard.

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• Hunterbrook Media is a hedge fund that also does journalism. Or maybe a journalism startup that also runs a hedge fund. 
• Will that work? A new story in the New Yorker wonders if you can combine those things.
• One thing the story makes clear: Having...