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What Makes a Media Business Last? Maansi S Darrbaar on Creativity, Discipline and Change
A great piece of entertainment may look effortless on screen. Behind it, however, is a business that rarely is. Ideas have to find audiences, creative teams have to work within...
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Mo Abudu: Building the Industry, Not Just the Content
For decades, the stories the world consumed about Africa were mostly made elsewhere. Documentaries about crisis. News packages about conflict....
Maria Ressa: When Trust Is the Only Product You Have
Distribution used to be the hard part of media. Now it is free and infinite, and the difficulty has moved....
Jessica Lessin: The Reporter Who Refused to Give the News Away
The news business ran on a simple idea for years: publish everything, let anyone read it, and sell the crowd...
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When Content Becomes Cheap, What Becomes Valuable?
For most of the internet's life, the hard part of media was making something. Writing it, filming it, editing it...
Editorial Note
Who’s building the next newsroom?
Every few years, someone declares media dead. I've stopped counting how many times. What's dying, again and again, is the...
