Media Organizations
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Sharma: Subscription Business Models Pressure Outlets to Cater to Partisan Subscribers
“Their subscription revenue drives their revenue model. It's not, ah, it's not advertising so much anymore. It's there, but subscription is the overwhelming driver. Now you would imagine that in a subscription driven model, it should be much more, ah, free pres…”
Lieb: Twitter excels in breaking news due to direct first-party publishing
“I think it is that it is so easy for first party information owners to put content onto the platform. So like we saw, like during the assassination attempt, we saw a bunch of firsthand videos that The normal media organization would not have produced for us so…”
Sandhu: Ad-dependent media businesses have significant caps due to volatile revenue
“However, over time, you realize that there is a pretty significant cap to this model. You're primarily dependent on advertising, which can be, you know, volatile and fluctuate. You'll have really, really good months. You're going to have bad months. It's hard …”
Sacks: Media liability should trigger only if refusing equal-prominence corrections
“I think that if the media makes a mistake, they should have to correct it. And I would say the correction needs to be at the same level that they publicize the original story. So if they make a mistake, if it's untruthful and it damages someone's reputation an…”
Wertheim: Media companies now embrace journalist moonlighting across platforms
“When I started, if you wanted to do an NPR interview, you would have to jump through hoops and get signed approval from a manager's manager. And now I think there's much more of an acknowledgement and a reasonable policy that as long as something isn't directl…”