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Jonah Peretti, Nick Denton and Ben Smith on digital news’ past and future

Channels with Peter Kafka

CHAPTER

Gorkov: The Rise and Fall of Digital Media

Gorkov: I think the big shift was the discovery of digital media as a category and the infusion of vast amounts of capital. The AOL acquisition of Huffington Post in 2011, the Andreson investment in BuzzFeed, transactions like that. So if digital media sort of remains a kind of a backwater and people with money don't get excited and don't decide to invest in it, we have a different reality today.

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