She Texted Her Friends, Now She Has a Booming Media Publication

Every Career Move Led Here: Meredith cut her teeth at Golin, stood up comms at Jet.com before it got absorbed into Walmart, and spent four years leading consumer and product comms at Pinterest. When she left in 2024, she finally had time to do her favorite part of PR full time: building real relationships with reporters. 🏆

Born Out of Curiosity: Meredith & The Media started because Meredith kept noticing the same thing. Reporters were leaving legacy outlets, launching newsletters, starting podcasts, and nobody was covering the story of the storytellers. She figured she would figure it out on the way and started texting. 💡

Twenty Years of Relationships, One Text at a Time: The first interviews came from a text to a friend at the Wall Street Journal and a message to a reporter at Forbes. Twenty years of building trust with journalists meant that when Meredith asked, the answer was always yes. Now chief communications officers at major publications are reaching out to her. 📱

Spotlighting the Personality Behind the Pen: Media gets a tough rap, and Meredith thinks it deserves better. Her publication is built on a simple belief: the people writing the stories are just as interesting as the stories they cover. Live from the Newsroom, her newest series, takes that idea even further by going inside actual newsrooms. 🎙️

Failure Is the Strategy: Meredith's approach to building something new is refreshingly simple. No one else is trying it, so who gets to say if she is failing? If it works, keep going. If it does not, move on. That mindset has turned a curious side project into one of the most exciting media publications in the space. 🔥