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Unbundling Journalism | Chris Best on Venture Stories
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Alex Magee • 8 cards
rapidly declining circulation, fewer pages per newspaper and less overall revenue has meant fewer journalists. Indeed, there are now far fewer people working for American newspaper publishers than at any point since WW2
Benedict Evans • News by the ton: 75 years of US advertising — Benedict Evans
Having recently passed 10m subs, NYT is shooting for 15m by 2027. If the bundling play works, news might become just a small part of the company’s business.
The Hustle • The NYT’s next era isn’t about news - The Hustle
longtime Clinton foe Jeff Gerth. He’s the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
The answer was obvious: Make news and information not just smart, but as clean and efficient as possible. Get rid of unnecessary noise—autoplay videos, pop-up ads, unnecessary words—and write how our brains want to consume. And build it for a smartphone.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Everything that has occurred in Silicon Valley in the last couple of decades also occurred in the 1850s. Anyone who thinks that wild-ass high tech venture capitalism is a late-20th-century California phenomenon needs to read about the maniacs who built the first transatlantic cable projects. The only things that have changed since then are that the... See more
Wired • Mother Earth Mother Board
“The Journalist and the Murderer,” by Janet Malcolm
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