The Challenges Faced by Media Companies in the Age of AI

The media business in 2024

To kick off the year on The Rebooting Show, I spoke to Axios senior media reporter Sara Fischer about the main themes of the year ahead. Among the topics we covered:

• The value of identifying patterns from the torrent of news
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• The unrealistic expectations of the ZIRP/scale era
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• Cyclical challenges vs structural changes
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• The wasteland of general interest publications
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• The existential threat of AI to many publishing businesses
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• AI’s impact on the non-content aspects of the publishing function
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• How debt will accelerate the inevitable consolidation of streaming services
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