“As time goes on, even when you’re financially successful in media, the tendency is to do more and more stuff. If I look at media companies who are poorly run, everyone is really busy, stressed out, and they’re not making money.”
First Sinclair and now the Kochs are back. In an age of media free-for-all and massive deregulation, will fact-based journalism become an endangered species?
“I believe very powerfully in the public service of journalism — I just think we have to quit being delusional about what it takes to build a business around that.”
Having a built a business model around targeting influentials, Politico is testing how many ways it can replicate it. Why aren’t other news companies learning its lessons?
Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: From national, Politico expands into global — and local." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 29 Jan. 2015. Web. 20 Sep. 2023.
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Doctor, K. (2015, Jan. 29). Newsonomics: From national, Politico expands into global — and local. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 20, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/01/newsonomics-from-national-politico-expands-into-global-and-local/
Chicago
Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: From national, Politico expands into global — and local." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 29, 2015. Accessed September 20, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/01/newsonomics-from-national-politico-expands-into-global-and-local/.
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