This chapter explores the challenges faced by news publishers and offers potential solutions for building sustainable businesses, including journalist-owned collectives. It highlights successful examples and suggests financial support from millionaires and billionaires for greater impact.
Layoffs are hitting newsrooms and publishers again, as tech platforms, ad markets and artificial intelligence reshape the internet. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton have ideas for solutions. Then, one of the most influential investors in crypto companies lays out where the industry went wrong, and why he still thinks blockchains are the future. And finally, a round of HatGPT with the week’s tech headlines, including a spicy LinkedIn post and an A.I. test that disturbs Kevin and Casey’s sense of reality.
Today’s guest:
Chris Dixon, partner at Andreessen Horowitz
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