Big Ideas,
Real Impact.
Criminal Minded Media was built on a single conviction: that access is the competitive moat no algorithm can replicate. We go where cameras aren't welcome. We earn trust where institutions manufacture silence. We sit inside stories that the rest of the industry pitches from the outside. That hasn't changed. What has changed is the world around us.
The content economy has fractured, and for a company like CMM, that's not a threat. It's an opening.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
CMM is a content company in the classical sense.
we make things that matter, built on reporting that is irreplaceable.
we are also an IP studio, a publishing house, a digital subscription brand, and a creator-economy operator all inside the same structure.
The currency hasn't changed. The mint has.
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Television, books, film, long-form documentary, audio, these are not dying formats, they are maturing ones. The economics have shifted but the appetite hasn't. A network still needs a showrunner with embedded access. A publisher still needs a manuscript that can't be replicated by a prompt. We've built that credibility across two decades, and we intend to use it. Police 24/7. Supreme Team. City of Lies, LivePD. The work speaks.
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This is the new center of gravity for CMM. Not content-for-hire. Not work-made-for-others. IP that we develop, publish, distribute, and monetize across every format available to us, and then license outward on our terms.
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Description text goes hThe Dossier, To Live and Die on Crenshaw, The Twisted Gun, and Dear Momma represent four distinct properties across true crime, urban history, literary journalism, and memoir. Each one was built from the inside out, rom access, from relationships, from years of immersion. Each one is also a franchise architecture: book to documentary, documentary to series, series to subscription.
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The digital arm is launching: Signal Zero is our first full subscription-based vertical content play, law enforcement storytelling built from bodycam footage and embedded access, designed for the short-form attention economy. It is not a spin-off of television. It is a new model entirely.
The Dossier Patreon is proof of concept: an audience will pay for proximity to a story they believe in, if you give them a reason to trust you with their time.
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Nothing has changed. We develop the same way we always have, through access, through sourcing, through the long work of earning a seat at tables that are not set for journalists. The investigation doesn't care whether the final output is a book, a series, a vertical clip, or a Patreon episode. The rigor is the same.
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We no longer ask "who will buy this?" before we build it. We ask "who does this belong to?" Then we build the path to the audience ourselves. Legacy partners are welcome at the table. They are no longer the only chair.
BROWSE OUR PODCASTS
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Unjust Justice: The James Rosemond Story
In the 1980’s, few people were more feared in Brooklyn than legendary street figure Jimmy Rosemond, aka “Jimmy Henchman,” or “Jimmy Ace.” MORE…
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The Dossier
FBI agent Phil Carson has held onto a secret for 15 years, which will prove that there was a cover-up of the murder of Hip-Hop Superstar, The Notorious B.I.G. by the LAPD.
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Trump Mafia
The question is simple, will the 45th President of the United States end up in jail when he leaves office. The story to understand is how did we get here?
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The Syndicate
Don Bolles was an investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic known for his coverage of organized crime in the area. His murder in a car bombing was suspected to be mob-related.
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Stolen Life
Debra Milke was on death row for the murder of her 4yr old son. She remained there for 24 years until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out her conviction & death sentence. Why?…
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Truth Leaks
Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, and Chelsea Manning. Are they journalists? Or whistleblowers, criminals, agents of sabotage?
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Dossier II
We dive into Season II of our critically acclaimed podcast about the cover up over the murder of the Notorious B.I.G.
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Bored Ape Yacht Club
The BAYC is an example of the future of the entertainment business — a mix of the Metaverse, and the hucksterism of Andy Warhol.
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The Prospect
We follow the ascendence of possibly the greatest NBA prospect of all time!
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CHASED
The story of Billy Chase an undercover cop in the War on Drugs in the 80s is a tale about a city under siege, and how that time defined the politics, policing, and mass incarceration.
“Good Content is King.
GreAT CONTENT IS CURRENCY”
ABOUT US.
Criminal Minded Media is focused on creating and developing, original “Access-Driven” content.
Our mission is to entertain, enlighten and inform our listeners, with stories that we alone have access to, due to our sources — think ‘Deep Throat’/Watergate scandal.
We are a media network that feature stories, voices and opinions that are all to be found in our current slate of productions ranging from True Crime, to Sports, to Politics, and everything else in between, that is important for you to know, feel, and ponder.
Let’s face it, we’re making the world a better place…