Company type | Newsletter |
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Founded | February 2012 |
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Headquarters | United States |
Nerdist News is aNerdist-branded pop culturenewsletter launched in February 2012. It was founded and operated byNerdist Industries'CEO,Peter Levin, and itsCCO,Chris Hardwick. It was hosted byJessica Chobot.
The cross-platform Nerdist Industries currently has two newsletter publications,Nerdist News andTokyopop. The target for the newsletters is socially active consumers of genre fare.
ComedianChris Hardwick'sNerdist Industries, entered into an equity partnership withGeekChicDaily in June 2011.[1] Nerdist Industries operates a podcast network, including the flagshipNerdist Podcast (renamedID10T with Chris Hardwick in February 2018), Nerdist Blog and NerdMelt theater at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles.[2]
In February 2012, GeekChicDaily fully merged with Nerdist Industries and becameNerdist News,[3] though theNerdist News website has not updated since September 20, 2014, with ongoing content shifted to the main Nerdist.com page.