Weiss: Alternative media hunger driven by falling trust in legacy outlets
Bari Weiss · The 4th Estate: How Media is Changing in Washington, D.C. · Feb 6, 2023 · at 4:12
Bari Weiss, founder of Common Sense, speaks on a media panel at the a16z American Dynamism Summit about why new media platforms like Substack and Axios are growing rapidly.
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“But I think there's a growing audience of people who used to read the New York Times every morning or listen to NPR in their car, and now they're saying, I don't really trust what I'm hearing in those places. Where can I go? And that's frankly where, where companies like Axios come in, where platforms like Substack come in. Those people are desperately searching for an alternative. And I think maybe what's been underestimated is just how intense the hunger is for that alternative, which is why so many of these new places are flourishing.”
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