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#404 - The Fall of the House of Tucker and Traffic w/ Ben Smith

The Fifth Column

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The Rise and Fall of BuzzFeed

Gawker is very specific kind of idea and ideology of what the internet was for. Jonah Pretti didn't see himself as a journalist, he ran these pure experiments with content. I think good journalism, like, it's so banal to say this, but like, you got to care a lot.

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