Nerdist News

Nerdist News is a Nerdist-branded pop culture newsletter launched in February 2012. It was founded and operated by Nerdist Industries' CEO, Peter Levin, and its CCO, Chris Hardwick. It was hosted by Jessica Chobot.

Nerdist News
Newsletter
FoundedFebruary 2012
FoundersPeter Levin, Chris Hardwick
HeadquartersUnited States

Publication

The cross-platform publisher currently has two newsletter publications, Nerdist News and TOKYOPOP powered by Nerdist Industries. The target for the newsletters is socially active consumers of genre fare.

Nerdist

Comedian Chris Hardwick's Nerdist Industries, entered into an equity partnership with GeekChicDaily in June 2011.[1] Nerdist Industries operates a podcast network, including the flagship Nerdist Podcast, Nerdist Blog and NerdMelt theater at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles.[2]

In February 2012, GeekChicDaily fully merged with Nerdist Industries and became Nerdist News.[3]

gollark: I feel like you might be underestimating the pickiness of biology.
gollark: I mean, you can emulate that with other things, but that would be harder.
gollark: Well, it probably still needs some of the rest of the body for maintenence.
gollark: If the brain is dead, it isn't much use.
gollark: Ideally we would remove the brains from people's skulls and directly feed them input data via the existing nerve I/O bits, but nooooo, apparently that's "unethical" and "impractical".

References
  1. Finke, Nikki. "Nerds And Geeks Unite In MultiPlatform Deal". Deadline. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
  2. Graser, Marc (6 June 2011). "Nerdist, GeekChic team up". Variety. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  3. Hardwick, Chris. "Nerd is the Word". The Nerdist. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
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