Leverage and lip service
Plus: A conversation with Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips
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Saving the open web
A new economic bargain is coming into focus
Reasons for optimism
Finding pockets of energy
Physical media
Exiting AI slop
Publishers struggle at alignment
Two in three lack a single unified success metric
Irrational exuberance
AI's trough of disillusionment
Greater Long Island's scrappy formula for local
Mike White on bootstrapping a local news company
Non-working media
Anonymous Brand Marketer on zero-sum realities of budgeting
Organic brands
A conversation with Impact Alpha founder David Bank
What an Italian grocery cooperative says about the future of media
Time to learn from Conad
Atlas Obscura's next chapter
CEO Louise Story is betting on community, personalization and an app
Parallel worlds
Filter bubbles were just the start
HBR's Adi Ignatius on pricier subs
HBR Executive is $700 per year
Modernizing PR
The forces ravaging the institutional media industry will have profound effects on every node of the Information Space. Today, Adam Mendelsohn gives his view of why PR needs to change. Adam founded culture of sports property OffBall and was a guest on The Rebooting Show. I’ve known Adam for
Taxing PR
Plus: A conversation with Variety's co-editors-in-chief
Media’s back to the future moment
Back to basics
Substack as OnlyFans
It wants to build a broader creator platform
Idiosyncratic media
Notes from the Traffic Apocalypse™
The return of brand marketing
Anonymous Brand Marketer is not packing their boxes
The demise of info arb
Requiem for an arb pioneer
Reinventing the Minnesota Star Tribune
A conversation with Steve Grove about leaving Big Tech and embracing local news
Hitting the red button
"Enough is enough"
Substack's conundrum
Are we sure this is a good business?
Notes on the rebundling
Plus: A conversation with Vox Media president of revenue and growth Ryan Pauley