Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

Highlights from recent episodes, including Disney's summer from hell; Chef Keya on going national; Ben Smith on launching Semafor; and the former top editor of Money on leaving media to teach at an underserved high school.

Ben Smith on why he left his media column at The New York Times to launch news startup Semafor with the CEO of Bloomberg Media. His book is Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral.

Keya didn't even have an oven in India. But a decade and a half into her new life in Virginia, she's become a cake-pop mogul, Food Network champ and, now, the force behind Keya & Co., whose masala potato chips are a first foray into grocery-aisle stardom. She discussed personal tragedy, pivoting during Covid and the learning curve of taking her brand national.

The Walt Disney Co -- venerable multinational entertainment blue-chip -- is broken, what with ESPN in free fall, streaming losing billions, linear TV collapsing and management succession in doubt. Oh, and a huge talent strike. Could CEO Bob Iger have to break it all up? Guests: The Media Mix's Claire Atkinson; and Shipyard Entertainment's Neil J. Patel -- who in a past life managed strategic alliances for Disney.

Investopedia's Caleb Silver joins us again to discuss markets and the economy at the midway point of 2023.

Craig Matters, formerly managing editor of Money and executive editor of Fortune, on leaving magazines to teach at an underserved public school.

In case you missed it: highlights from recent episodes, including our live show in Charlottesville with CBS Face the Nation's Margaret Brennan; Chef Jeremiah of Food Network and Rick Ross fame; indie bookseller Mitchell Kaplan fights back against Florida's anti-book movement; and Julia Lee on her memoir, Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.

The in-demand Miami chef discusses his journey, from culinary school to learning the ropes on the international Michelin-star circuit to Food Network, multimedia content-creation, mobile hospitality and becoming a personal chef to rapper Rick Ross. Now, brick-and-mortar...

Author Julia Lee on her memoir, Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America; and Books & Books and the Miami Book Fair's Mitchell Kaplan on resisting the creeping book bans of the culture war.

Mike Chinoy, CNN's first Beijing bureau chief, on China 34 years after the Tiananmen Square crackdown. We discussed Taiwan, trade, Covid, the surveillance state and cracks in Xi Jinping's consolidation efforts at home and abroad. Chinoy's book is Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic.