Madrigal: Exposing certain types of journalists to distribution metrics is dangerous
Alexis Madrigal · a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media · Jan 2, 2019 · at 13:00
Alexis Madrigal, journalist at The Atlantic, shares his view on whether journalists should be exposed to audience distribution and business metrics.
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“I mean, I find it personally interesting, but I think that it's, you It is a, it's a dangerous thing to bring into contact with journalists of certain types.”
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