Geolocating Truth with Zach Stafford

Welcome to Episode 7! Today our guest is super journalist, host and producer Zach Stafford. 

He’s currently a contributor at MSNBC, the former editor in chief of the Advocate and former Chief Content Officer at Grindr. We spend a good bit of time discussing the Grindr controversy that Zach reported on that led to his eventual departure. 

He’s currently a co-producer of the Pulitzer prize winning and Tony-nominated Broadway musical A STRANGE LOOP (with 11 nominations, the most of any musical this year!). If you have a chance to see the show in New York City - run, don’t walk! It’s spectacular. 

In Act Two we discuss the false start of Alexi McCammond as EIC of Teen Vogue after tweets that she already apologized for resurfaced. She attempted to be #PostShame but CondeNast failed her when they didn’t properly prepare for the issue to come up again. 

Throughout the conversation we talk a lot about Zach’s commitment to transparency and one of the things he said that really stood out for me was his insight that #PostShame stories “are like water erosion on rocks. Every wave makes a kind of imprint.” 

One story at a time. They all make a difference. 

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Brand design is by Veta & Saloni 

Our social media manager is José Rodriguez Solis on Instagram and Tiktok @cacidoe 

Our theme music composer and editor is @zachwachter 

You can follow Adam on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok at @adammacattck & @postshame