Feeling stuck in a career rut or ready for a new chapter? This bonus episode of Life After News is for you! 🎙️✨This week I’m sharing a special bonus conversation with my friend Rich DeMuro—tech reporter, host of Rich on Tech, and all-around gadget guy. ⚡
We dive into how off-the-shelf tech like AI, Canva, and Riverside.fm makes it possible for anyone to create their own podcast 🎧 and newsletter 📰 without a big newsroom behind them.
From my leap out of TV news to running a Palm Springs hotel 🌴 to building Life After News and Desert Dispatch, Rich and I explore the challenges (and rewards) of reinvention. 💡
👉 What you’ll hear in this episode:
- How I went from news director to hotel owner to podcaster.
- The exact tools I use to produce Life After News on my own.
- Why embracing AI isn’t just smart—it’s necessary.
- The realities of monetizing a newsletter (and why journalists shouldn’t shy away from it).
- Why reinvention is scary—but worth it. ✨
🔗 Follow Rich: https://richontech.tv/
📺Catch him on KTLA + his weekly KFI show.
🌵 Check out my Palm Springs newsletter: https://desertdispatch.beehiiv.com/
📲 Follow along on Instagram: @DesertDispatchPS
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Let Life After News inspire your next chapter. Because leaving the news doesn’t mean the story’s over—it means a new one’s just beginning.
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