Klein: Institutional authority makes iterative learning in journalism harder
Ezra Klein · a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media · Jan 2, 2019 · at 6:40
Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein discusses how high-profile media leadership constrains the open, provisional learning style that characterized early blogging.
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“As my career has progressed, now I run Vox I have to write in a way where the writing has to have more authority to it. I can't just be wrong all the time. Or if I am wrong, it has to be wrong in socially acceptable, reputational protecting ways. And that's actually a lot less fun for me. It means that learning about things is much more difficult because you can't just take the readers along with you as you try to figure things out.”
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