Digital
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An Update on the Stratechery Membership Program
Last spring I wrote a series about the future of journalism: Part 1: FiveThirtyEight and the End of Average – link Part 2: The Stages of Newspapers’ Decline – link Part 3: Newspapers Are Dead; Long Live Journalism – link In the third installment I wrote: More and more journalism will be small endeavors, often with…
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Daily Update: Apple’s Seattle Office, The Imminent Demise of Radio, CNET Launches a Magazine
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Publishers and the Smiling Curve
Publishers used to live at the point of integration. The value of that integration, though, is gone with the Internet, which means value flows to suppliers and aggregators.
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Daily Update: GT Advanced’s Bankruptcy, The Magazine is Shutting Down, Priceless Beats
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Daily Update: The Player’s Tribune and Corporate Journalism, Box Delays IPO, Rovio Layoffs
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Daily Update: Facebook Launches Atlas, News as a Service
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Daily Update: Why Next Year for Apple Watch, I Love the Blackberry Passport, Bill Simmons and Writer as Brand
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Is BuzzFeed a Tech Company?
It’s telling that Chris Dixon, in a blog post explaining Andreessen Horowitz’s $50 million investment, goes out of his way to explain that BuzzFeed is not really a media company, but a technological one: We see BuzzFeed as a prime example of what we call a “full stack startup”. BuzzFeed is a media company in the…