The Culture Journalist

Emilie Friedlander, Andrea Domanick

theculturejournalist@substack.com

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Booking Overview

This is an interview-led cultural criticism podcast focused on culture in the age of platforms, typically featuring independent writers, artists, researchers, technologists, and media or cultural practitioners. Agencies could credibly pitch thoughtful experts on digital culture, music industries, technology and taste, internet subcultures, or cultural economics; booking difficulty is medium because the show appears selective and oriented toward niche subject-matter authority rather than broad celebrity.

Metrics

Episodes: 111

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

theculturejournalist@substack.com

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Host

Emilie Friedlander - Culture journalist and co-host covering cultural change in the age of platforms.

Andrea Domanick - Culture journalist and co-host examining contemporary culture, media, and platforms.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Independent writers, researchers, artists, technologists, podcast creators, and cultural practitioners with specialized knowledge of digital culture, music, media, technology, or contemporary taste.
Required Achievements:  
Published research or criticism, A focused newsletter, podcast, or independent media project, Curatorial, artistic, or collaborative cultural work

Recent Guest Discussions

Carly Busta - Online Ideologies, Internet Culture, Algorithmic Media, And The Economic And Geopolitical Meanings Of Digital Subcultures.

Joshua Citarella - Online Ideologies, Creator Culture, Algorithmic Media, And The Relationship Between Content Creators And Politics.

Drew Austin - Technology’s Relationship To Fashion, Taste As Status And Competitive Advantage, Class, And Cultural Distinction.

Harry Krinsky - The Tranche Collaborative Podcast Project And The History And Psychology Of Musical Taste Manipulation.

Recent Topics

Platform Culture, Cultural Criticism, Internet Culture, Music, Taste

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Culture Journalist
:

Mapping "The Online Marketplace of Ideas"

July 24, 2026

CUJO is a podcast about culture in the age of platforms. Episodes drop every other week, but if you want the full experience, we recommend signing up for a paid subscription. Paid subscribers also get access to our CUJOPLEX Discord and The Weather Report, a monthly episode series where we take stock of where the cultural winds are blowing and tell you what’s rained into our brains. Catch last month’s episode with Callahan & Witscher’s Jack Callahan, where we dig into the Fenix Flexin saga and...

Welcome to the tasteslop era

July 10, 2026

For our cultural predictions roundup back in January, the musician and technologist Trevor McFedries predicted that 2026 was going to be a really good year—professionally speaking—for people with good taste. The jury’s still out, but it’s definitely turning into a big year for talking about taste. And for the first time in history, the tech world seems to be leading the charge, from engineers penning essays about how “personal taste” is the new moat, to startups promising us more aestheticall...

Your music taste is being manipulated: A history

June 19, 2026

CUJO is a podcast about culture in the age of platforms, from Emilie Friedlander and Andrea Domanick. You can learn more about it here.For fans of independent music, the Geese psyop allegations earlier this year raised an anxiety-provoking question: How much of our taste is our own, and how much of it is just a function of the music industry using a range of tactics (from the mundane, to the shadowy, to the straight-up fraudulent) to manufacture consent?  We held back from commenting on the s...

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