Clinging to a Zine | Nathan Ma
The global pandemic is accelerating the collapse of independent music journalism.
The Media Learned Nothing From 2016
The press hasn’t broken its most destructive habits when it comes to covering Donald Trump.
Zoom's Blank Check
A Case Study: What to do when you have an expensive stock and no moats
A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive - Max Read - Bookforum Magazine
A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive – Max Read
In 2029, the Internet Will Make Us Act Like Medieval Peasants
What if we aren’t being accelerated into a cyberpunk future so much as thrown into some fantastical premodern past?
Journalism beyond competition
The story of contemporary Colorado journalism can be told in two acts. In the first, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post are locked in one of the late twentieth century’s wildest newspaper wars, which ended in 2009 with the Rocky’s demise. In the second, a fragmented media landscape of upstart publications is galvanized […]
Deez Interviews: Diana Moskovitz on Defector Media + how it feels to build your own workplace
This week’s interview is with Diana Moskovitz, who’s the investigations editor (and a co-owner — more on that in a sec!) over at the newly launched Defector Media (aka, the new & improved Deadspin). We talked about the outlet’s worker-owned model, the challenges of launching during a pandemic, and what it feels like to build a newsroom from the ground up.
Stories, like life, can't be mapped