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Klein: Institutional authority makes iterative learning in journalism harder
“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 ac…”
Ezra Klein Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:40 a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
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Klein: Vox reached 99 million Facebook video views in February 2016
“We had ninety-nine million Facebook video plays in, what was it, February.”
Ezra Klein Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 37:15 a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
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