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The GIST is a Canadian sports media company founded in 2017 by Roslyn McLarty, Jacie deHoop, and Ellen Hyslop. They run newsletters and a podcast called "The GIST of It". The GIST's content is written by women and provides coverage of both men's and women's sports, with a goal of connecting with people who felt left out of the sports community.
History
The GIST was started in late 2017, when friends and graduates of Queen's University at Kingston McLarty, deHoop and Hyslop launched a weekly newsletter to an initial group of 500 subscribers. By 2022, the company had over 500,000 email subscribers across its three newsletters.
In 2018, The GIST raised their initial funding of $100,000 through Toronto's DMZ incubator program. The group subsequently were invited to the Toronto Metropolitan University Future of Sport Lab and the LIFT Labs Accelerator via NBCUniversal.
In 2020, the group's founders were named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the media category. The GIST were approved a $350,000 loan from the Business Development Bank of Canada in 2021, bringing their new funding across venture and state-backed credit incentives to $1.35 million.
References
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The Gist is an American daily news podcast hosted by Mike Pesca. The show was originally produced by Slate magazine starting in May 2014 and was suspended by Slate on February 22, 2021. A year later, Pesca relaunched the podcast under his independent production company, Peach Fish Productions.
Podcast
The show typically starts with a short solo discussion by Pesca of an issue in the news, continues with an interview with an expert or author, and concludes with a "spiel", which is a short op-ed by Pesca on some topic that may or may not have already been discussed in the podcast. Beyond issues of current events and politics, a notable focus of the Gist is on the quality of arguments and use of wordplay.
New episodes of the show are released afternoons daily during the week.
The Gist's average rating is 4.6 out of 5 on Apple Podcasts.
Controversy
Slate suspended Pesca and The Gist following a debate between Pesca and other Slate staff over a controversy involving journalist Donald G. McNeil. McNeil said the n-word “in the context of a conversation about racist language" during a New York Times's sponsored trip with students. Pesca opined that McNeil's conduct should not result in him being fired.
In early September 2021, the Washington Post reported that Pesca and Slate had “mutually agreed to part ways … As part of the arrangement, Pesca will take his podcast, 'The Gist,' to an independent platform.”
See also
List of daily news podcasts
Political podcast
References
External links
Official website
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