Radio advertising is projected to decline 14% in 2020. Covid-19 has a mortality rate of 4.1% in the US (note: this may decline dramatically as we get our act together on testing). Among US media firms, the death rate will be 10-20%. Firms ranging from Condé Nast to Viacom are furloughing/laying off people as Facebook and Google ramp up hiring. How ... See more

“I think writers have always realized their own value; there just weren't a lot of options in the post-2008 recession for how to make good on it,” says Anne Helen Peterson, who writes the newsletter Culture Study. “But all of this feels very cyclical to me. The economy tanks, writers get laid off from their publications, writers go freelance, write... See more