Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Crooked Media is looking to take its progressive-politics podcast empire to the next level.
The L.A.-based media company, which produces more than 30 podcasts including the flagship “Pod Save America,” has hired Lucinda Treat, chief legal officer at Vice Media Group for the last four years, as its first CEO.
Crooked Media also announced an investment from Soros Fund Management, the investment firm founded by billionaire George Soros, which is taking a minority stake in Crooked.
Crooked Media didn’t disclose the amount of funding it received from Soros Fund Management, which represents its first outside financing.
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