An Interview With The New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien

An Interview with The New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien about her path to The New York Times Company, what it is like managing an entity where the most important product is out of your control, and a substantial dive into her thinking about bundles, recent acquisitions, and how The New York Times Company can transform from a skyscraper into a neighborhood.

The Current Thing

If businesses are subject to Aggregation Theory, then so are ideas: this is the root of the “The Current Thing” meme, and it should drive a re-evaluation of how we think about moderating content on the Internet.

Publishing is Back to the Future

Journalism cannot afford to be divorced from business realities; that applies to Australia, the New York Times, and even Andreessen Horowitz.

An Interview with BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti

An Interview with BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti about BuzzFeed’s business model, acquisition of the HuffPost, and how big tech companies can fix the news.

The Idea Adoption Curve

Mapping the technology adoption curve to ideas gives insights as to which business models work on which parts of the addressable market.

Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability

Twitter went too far last week for reasons that go back to 2016 and the unfair blaming of tech for media’s mistakes.

Disney and Integrators Versus Aggregators

Disney’s reorganization reinforces their integrated strategy; there is a lot to learn for anyone competing with Aggregators.