This week on Mediaweek’s Newsmakers, our guest doesn’t just cover controversy, she often is the controversy.

Maureen Callahan is one of the sharpest, boldest, and most unfiltered voices in modern media. Her bylines span Vanity Fair, Spin, Daily Mail (where she’s now a columnist), and New York Post, where she’s critic-at-large. Her writing? Unapologetic. Razor-sharp. And impossible to ignore.

Now she’s turning up the volume with her podcast The Nerve. 

In this wide-ranging conversation, Maureen opens up about the cost of honesty in journalism, the state of pop culture, the myth of objectivity, and what it means to push back when everyone else plays it safe.