{"podcast":{"title":"The Journal.","slug":"the-journal-547598","podcast_index_feed_id":547598,"rss_url":"https://video-api.wsj.com/podcast/rss/wsj/the-journal","website_url":"https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b84f9932-8174-11e9-bbd8-7f261513f0c9/image/d84a4f4d55158df9d14f6f2d4b219a28.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Wall Street Journal","episode_count":300,"summary":"The most important stories about money, business and power. Hosted by Ryan Knutson and Jessica Mendoza. The Journal is a co-production of Spotify and The Wall Street Journal. Get show merch here: https://wsjshop.com/collections/clothing","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T08:20:41.229944+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-journal-547598"},"episode":{"title":"Why Hollywood Can't Find Good Scripts","slug":"why-hollywood-can-t-find-good-scripts","published_at":"2026-06-01T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-journal-547598/why-hollywood-can-t-find-good-scripts","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-journal-547598","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/WSJ3214751856.mp3?updated=1780087353","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/WSJ3214751856.mp3?updated=1780087353","summary":"How to get discovered in Hollywood has been a decades-old struggle. For screenwriters, that game started to change when Franklin Leonard launched the Black List, an annual ranking of the “most liked” but not-yet-produced screenplays. Since 2005, more than 500 of those scripts have become feature films, including several Best Picture Oscar-winners. Ryan Knutson interviewed Leonard about how to fix some of Hollywood’s other challenges at our live show in Los Angeles. Further Listening: - Hollywood Jobs Are Disappearing - Inside the Nasty Fight to Take Over Hollywood - The Journal. - For Riz Ahmed, Life is a Spy Thriller Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"How to get discovered in Hollywood has been a decades-old struggle. For screenwriters, that game started to change when Franklin Leonard launched the Blac…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1330,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-journal-547598/episodes/why-hollywood-can-t-find-good-scripts/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-journal-547598/why-hollywood-can-t-find-good-scripts.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}