Aram Zucker-Scharff

Building a journalism organization that exists mostly (or only) on social media and other platforms makes a kind of weird sense. After all, where would Twitter or Facebook be without the commercial driving power of media organizations using and advert…

“Now that’s some mighty disruptive thinking: Instead of hiring people to take care of customers, why not entice other employees to do it, and pay them in crustacean instead of cold cash?”

– When the forces of disruption hit home.

Has Don Lemon perfected the art of making everyday interviews controversial? ‘Obviously.’

“To get an idea of what kind of challenge Brill and Abramson are facing, we only have to consider that a well-established writer like Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish — who has one of the most successful personal paywalls in the industry — spent a year and barely managed to get to $1 million in revenue. Byliner, whose model was to commission longform work and then sell it on the Kindle, eventually failed and shut down, and so have other ventures aimed at the same market.”

– The numbers behind Jill Abramson and Steven Brill’s new media venture don’t add up.