Plus: The Washington Post start an audio game show, Vox Media is staffing up for podcast growth, and why celebrities are so compelling to advertisers as show hosts (even if their shows are only so-so).
“We were able to build a pretty tremendous amount based on a shoestring, but now we’re just getting a little more reactive to the realities of a shoestring business.”
Rather than create geographic diversity, digital news has pushed the industry into a few tight clusters. That has real impacts on the journalism we get.
The speed gains are very real. But do publishers want to trade in the open space of what we’ve known as the web for yet another platform they have little control over?
The tech-industry news site forces journalists to think about concepts of objectivity, transparency, audience, and why they do what they do. C.W. Anderson
Anderson, C.W.. "Information’s triumph? Three ways TechCrunch challenges ideas of journalism." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 Sep. 2011. Web. 17 Apr. 2024.
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