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Journalism, Subscriptions, and Podcasting with Li Jin and Nathan Baschez
podcasts.apple.comFor decades, journalists’ incentives had been set pretty much by their editors: you wrote what you were assigned to write, or went where the natural evolution of a story took you. The blog years, and the early flickerings of traffic, had produced a new kind of media powerhouse, in which obscure and partisan figures like Drudge could reward you with
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When I asked what, exactly, they thought made someone a promising Substack writer, Best turned to McKenzie and asked, in a jokey hush, “Do we keep the Baschez score a secret?” McKenzie laughed. They have a system, created by a former employee named Nathan Baschez, that measures a Twitter user’s engagement level—retweets, likes, replies—among their... See more
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John Dickerson • 3 cards
He planned to build an app with an old friend from Austin, René Pinnell.