Gimlet Media British advertising firm WPP announced it was investing $5 million in Gimlet for a minority stake in the company. Alex Blumberg, a radio journalist, producer for "This American Life", and co-founder of "Planet Money", came up with the idea of a for-profit podcast network after the success of a T-shirt fundraising campaign for "Planet Money". He chose to document the foundation of Gimlet in the first season of "StartUp", the company's first show. Gimlet's co-founder, Matthew Lieber, holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, is a former radio producer at WNYC, and worked as a management consultant
The L-Shaped Man The L-Shaped Man The L-Shaped Man is the fifth album by American punk rock band Ceremony. Produced by Drive Like Jehu guitarist John Reis, the album was released on May 19, 2015 through Matador Records. It marks as a further shift to a Joy Division-influenced post-punk sound that was introduced on band's preceding album, "Zoo" (2012). Lyrically, the album deals with vocalist Ross Farrar's recent break-up. A music video featuring tracks "The Separation" and "The Understanding" was released on March 26, 2015. Upon its release, "The L-Shaped Man" received mixed-to-positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized