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gabygoldberg.medium.com • Curators Are the New Creators. The Business Model of Good Taste | by Gaby Goldberg | Medium

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Ari Lewis • How Dave Portnoy Single Handedly Changed the Media Business Forever — Ari Lewis

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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

By that point, the State Department and even the New York Times had fully realized and admitted (though never publicly) the extent to which Matthews’s articles, propelled to worldwide prominence by their repeated front-page placement in the Times, had transformed an inexperienced and ill-equipped middle-class student-turned-rebel into a Cuban dicta

Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Douglas MacArthur is one of those blips in history, an idiosyncratic figure who, for reasons hard to satisfactorily explain, acquired far more power than he had any reason to. In the United States in the mid-twentieth century, there were three such men, each operating on a different scale. On the level of the city, there was Robert Moses, who someh

Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire

Howard Blum, a former staff writer, is the first to declare the Voice “a precursor to the internet,” an idea that recurs, with diminishing shine, throughout the book’s five hundred and thirty pages. Notes of elegy sound throughout, laments for something too good to last, but also for a moment of honest and urgent revolt. When there seemed no such t... See more

Michelle Orange • How the Village Voice Met Its Moment

Social media flattened the relationship between the elites and everyone else — it gave the public a voice. When JFK would give a speech, he was uncontested. Now, with everyone transitioning from a passive reader to a veritable journalist, every statement is challenged. A journalist, instead of being the sole arbiter of truth, is now just another pe... See more

Erik Torenberg • How the Internet Ate Media

there couldn’t be many other cases in human history of a person his age tossing around dollars in the amounts he was tossing them without much adult supervision, or the usual constraints of corporate life. A board of directors, for instance. “It’s unclear if we even have to have an actual board of directors,” said Sam, “but we get suspicious glance