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For 20 years Dan Wakeford ran the rooms that decided who America paid attention to. People Magazine. Us Weekly. Britney 2007. The Kardashians. Meghan and Harry. Every cover story you remember was either his call or the call of someone he hired.

Earlier this year he walked away from all of it to start Celebrity Intelligence, his own newsletter, and bet on himself for the first time in his career.

In this episode:

00:00 The line that lands on him

01:30 Running a newsroom of 300

07:45 The ethics shift in celebrity journalism

14:20 Why the Meghan and Harry story actually mattered

21:10 Britney 2007 as the inflection point

27:30 Leaving a giant title to start something new

34:00 The mistakes that made him better

37:45 What it costs to be the one the buck stops with

44:30 The toast

Subscribe to Celebrity Intelligence: https://celebrity-intelligence.com

Follow Dan: @danwakeford and @celebrity.intelligence

Before We Cheers is a filmed podcast about people betting on themselves. New episodes drop Fridays.

Instagram: @beforewecheers and @iamzcm

TikTok: @iamzcm92

YouTube: @beforewecheers

Host: Zach Miller

Editor: Katie Sadler

Recorded at WTF Media Studios, Midtown

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