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Ben Smith on the End of an Era for Digital Media

Odd Lots

CHAPTER

The Future of Journalism

There was a moment when Jonah Peretti was talking about maybe the media could get together to give them some more bargaining power over the platforms. I think there is this underlying problem that what these guys were selling was, that it was not a commodity that scale was infinite and didn't really need you. The New York Times Wall Street Journal have had unions forever. Good newsrooms are egalitarian and feel it. And unions are part of that culture.

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