Earlier this year, when he told his colleagues that he would be leaving NBC News, former Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd said that he had an entrepreneurial itch that he needed to scratch.

“The only way to fix this information ecosystem is to stop whining about the various ways the social media companies are manipulating things and instead roll up our collective sleeves and start with local,” he wrote.

Those plans are continuing full-bore, with Todd seeking to raise money and having having honed in on a starting point: Local youth sports. At the same time, he has relaunched his Chuck Toddcast, which he launched with NBC, but is now bringing to YouTube, Spotify and the other places people consume their news and information today.

The veteran political journalist has never been shy about voicing his thoughts on matters he deemed important, but he says that being freed from...See full article at The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News