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Hi, by the way, we’re Hunterbrook Media: an experiment to scalably and sustainably fund investigations into under-scrutinized sectors and global news in under-covered regions.
This is an experiment — and smarter people have tried and failed to find a sustainable model.
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Hunterbrookx.comAs you can imagine, the local newspapers have struggled. There are a variety of reasons for this. Hedge funds have milked these companies for all their worth. Overpaid senior managers have fired their lowest paid employees (journalists), resulting in an inferior product. Facebook and Google have claimed a far larger chunk of the advertising pie.
Jacob Cohen Donnelly • Local News Works When Cost Structure Isn't Screwed Up
HBP’s figures put the organization within the orbit of luminaries like The Economist while simultaneously positioning peers like Forbes, Fortune, Axios, and others in the rearview mirror. Remarkably, HBP has managed this with a considerably leaner staff, employing just 450.
Mario Gabriele • Harvard, a Media Company | The Generalist
In 2006, billionaire technology investor John Doerr announced that “green is the new red, white and blue.” He could have stopped at “red.” As Doerr himself said, “Internet-sized markets are in the billions of dollars; the energy markets are in the trillions.” What he didn’t say is that huge, trillion-dollar markets mean ruthless, bloody competition
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