Podcast appearances and mentions of Jonah Peretti

BuzzFeed has always been a company that plays with the boundaries of media, technology, and internet culture. From its early days mastering viral content to its ill-fated attempt to build a sustainable news division, the company has been in a constant state of reinvention. Now, CEO Jonah Peretti is making perhaps his boldest move yet: transforming BuzzFeed into something more than just a publisher—into a social network.In Jonah's telling, this move springs from a frustration with the direction of social media, as platforms have turned to adversarial algorithms that addict users and prey on human weaknesses. It's a different social media than the heady days of 2012-2015, when BuzzFeed mastered the art and science of creating shareable content. Jonah and I discuss the media landscape and why it's not too late to come up with an alternative social network built around joy.

Live from Alabama's Anti-ESG unscented Rose Garden, it's an all-new terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! In today's ESG-sized onesie called October 8, 2024: BIZ NUGGETS!Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1In our 'Because it's 2024 and "Hey, why don't you just save on gas and buy a Chevy Bolt" is just too damn complicated' headline of the week. Uber to launch AI assistant powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o to help drivers go electric In our 'Spotify co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon announce that shareholders ARE children and that's why they own about 25% of actual shares but about 75% of voting power' headline of the week. Spotify's HR chief says remote staff aren't ‘children' as company reaffirms work-from-anywhere policyIn our 'Boeing wishes it had Qantas's problems' headline of the week. 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Most CEOs Sticking with Climate Strategies, but Changing How they Communicate it: KPMG SurveyIn our 'Dog rescinds promise not to pee on the rug' headline of the week. BP drops goal to reduce oil and gas outputIn our 'Board members everywhere shocked to find out they're just average using Free Float Analytics data' headline of the week. 7 out of 10 employees dangerously underestimate or overestimate their skill levels, new analysis finds74% of active directors have historically delivered between the 40th and 60th percentile of TSR in whatever industry board they sit on. Those directors tend to have the highest average age (62 years old) and are overwhelmingly male (73%)In our 'Adam Neumann announces WorkWe, a real estate co-working company not to be confused with WeWork, the company he founded and bankrupted, because the Work and the We are swapped' headline of the week. Adam Neumann's Latest Project Is a WeWork CompetitorWorkflow is a shared office real estate companyDAMION1In our 'Don't worry, their independent board is there to ensure the company sticks to its not-for-profit bylaws... oh wait, never mind... Sam made those women look shrill' headline of the week. AI expert Gary Marcus thinks OpenAI will be the 'most Orwellian company of all time'In our 'The other three were Berkshire Hathaway board members with the last name "Buffett" and they all said "pull my finger" ' headline of the week. 7 out of 10 employees dangerously underestimate or overestimate their skill levels, new analysis findsIn our 'John Deere CEO John May says we should go all in on getting rid of DEI policies because 'we are never going to get rid of systemic racism anyway'' headline of the week. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says we should go all in on building AI data centers because 'we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway'In our 'Hey ma, are we supposed to be surprised when Japan ranked 125th out of 146 countries in the World Economic Forum's 2023 Gender Gap Index? Also, a Toyota Prius is a man's car, like a Deere tractor. Tell Dad' headline of the week. Toyota follows growing trend of companies halting DEI policies and initiatives In our 'Olive Garden is betting $1 billion on unlimited breadsticks as a ‘healthier' carrot' headline of the week. PepsiCo is betting $1 billion on tortilla chips as a ‘healthier' snackMATT2In our 'Correction: Toyota USA's all male board asks Toyota's 86% male board whether is was cool to "ditch the woman and gay stuff" because "a guy on the internet asked us to"' headline of the week. Toyota follows growing trend of companies halting DEI policies and initiativesBringing the total to 108 board members who cowered under their pillows at the idea that they'd have to talk to the gay people they said they "definitely were cool with"In our 'White guy who heard other white guy says something about black people once apparently not discriminated against' headline of the week. Blackrock Beats Equity Trader's Bias Suit Over ESG, DEI PoliciesBlackrock equity traded claimed because Larry Fink said diversity once in a speech years after he was fired, he was fired for being white male and heterosexualIn our 'So I'm not sure I can protect democracy, social cohesion, or the self esteem of young girls, but I can DEFINITELY turn this Porsche sports car into a minivan, because miracles ARE possible' headline of the week. Mark Zuckerberg Redesigns Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT Into A Minivan For Wife Priscilla Chan, Gets A 911 GT3 For HimselfIn our ‘Dear Linda, I know you are the daughter of Vince McMahon and class III director at Truth Social, so I thought I'd come to you first - are you really working with TitsAssMillionaire123 with a guaranteed investment scheme?' headline of the week. ‘I haven't told my wife about this blunder': How Truth Social users are getting scammed out of thousands of dollarsIn our 'Vivek Ramaswamy sends Edge One Capital a Letter Saying "Finders keepers,nyah nyah"' headline of the week. Edge One Capital Sends Letter to BuzzFeed Demanding Overhaul of Corporate Board and GovernanceEdge One Capital letter: Given its lack of relevant experience, it's unsurprising that the incumbent board has for years failed to hold its CEO responsible for destroying shareholder value. What we find truly extraordinary, however, is the extent to which the board has ac;vely created an environment where Jonah Peretti faces no repercussions for poor decisions and is instead insulated from shareholder influence. Peretti has dual class shares with 64% control and hand picks the board

'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade! Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry Google is getting even worse for independent sites Heat Death of the Internet What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think. They Put a 65-Foot Hot Dog in Times Square, and It's a Blast Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban Meet Pixel 8a YouTube's AI-powered 'Jump Ahead' feature rolling out widely to Premium users Google is changing how you set up 2FA Google Chrome Now Has a Gemini AI Shortcut Google TV's magic button is finally here, so what does it do? Number Of Search Results Dropped Google Search Results Page I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta. Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X (God help us) Elon Musk's Plan For AI News The Forgotten War on Beepers AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible geospy.ai MacWhisper Is This the Most Boring Man in the World? Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit YahooFinance.com

'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade! Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry Google is getting even worse for independent sites Heat Death of the Internet What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think. They Put a 65-Foot Hot Dog in Times Square, and It's a Blast Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban Meet Pixel 8a YouTube's AI-powered 'Jump Ahead' feature rolling out widely to Premium users Google is changing how you set up 2FA Google Chrome Now Has a Gemini AI Shortcut Google TV's magic button is finally here, so what does it do? Number Of Search Results Dropped Google Search Results Page I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta. Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X (God help us) Elon Musk's Plan For AI News The Forgotten War on Beepers AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible geospy.ai MacWhisper Is This the Most Boring Man in the World? Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit YahooFinance.com

'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade! Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry Google is getting even worse for independent sites Heat Death of the Internet What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think. They Put a 65-Foot Hot Dog in Times Square, and It's a Blast Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban Meet Pixel 8a YouTube's AI-powered 'Jump Ahead' feature rolling out widely to Premium users Google is changing how you set up 2FA Google Chrome Now Has a Gemini AI Shortcut Google TV's magic button is finally here, so what does it do? Number Of Search Results Dropped Google Search Results Page I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta. Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X (God help us) Elon Musk's Plan For AI News The Forgotten War on Beepers AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible geospy.ai MacWhisper Is This the Most Boring Man in the World? Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit YahooFinance.com

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'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade! Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry Google is getting even worse for independent sites Heat Death of the Internet What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think. They Put a 65-Foot Hot Dog in Times Square, and It's a Blast Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban Meet Pixel 8a YouTube's AI-powered 'Jump Ahead' feature rolling out widely to Premium users Google is changing how you set up 2FA Google Chrome Now Has a Gemini AI Shortcut Google TV's magic button is finally here, so what does it do? Number Of Search Results Dropped Google Search Results Page I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta. Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X (God help us) Elon Musk's Plan For AI News The Forgotten War on Beepers AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible geospy.ai MacWhisper Is This the Most Boring Man in the World? Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit YahooFinance.com

'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade! Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry Google is getting even worse for independent sites Heat Death of the Internet What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think. They Put a 65-Foot Hot Dog in Times Square, and It's a Blast Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban Meet Pixel 8a YouTube's AI-powered 'Jump Ahead' feature rolling out widely to Premium users Google is changing how you set up 2FA Google Chrome Now Has a Gemini AI Shortcut Google TV's magic button is finally here, so what does it do? Number Of Search Results Dropped Google Search Results Page I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta. Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk's X (God help us) Elon Musk's Plan For AI News The Forgotten War on Beepers AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible geospy.ai MacWhisper Is This the Most Boring Man in the World? Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit YahooFinance.com

BuzzFeed's latest earnings report, as discussed by CEO Jonah Peretti on their call, sheds light on the company's ongoing strategic challenges and adaptations. A significant focus of the conversation was the company's approach to video content. Peretti started by addressing the issue: "I think the biggest challenge is with branded video, and I would say the way we had previously operated with video, was that the one-off video that is posted on a social platform or a video platform like YouTube is not a very scalable, durable form of video production, where every single video needs to succeed on its own." He went on to outline the strenuous efforts made to create unique branded content and its limited reach, narrowing margins, and consuming time. According to Peretti, one means of countering these difficulties lies in creating partnerships with streamers to produce feature films, which, despite their high production costs, offer unique intellectual property (IP). The company also seeks to leverage existing strong IP like Hot Ones, extending it to other business lines. The company revered as a progressive digital media hub experienced a 26% decline in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in the previous year. Nevertheless, BuzzFeed has managed to maintain stability with cost-saving measures such as selling Complex and implementing various cost reduction strategies. These measures are aimed at boosting profitability while strategically veering towards more profitable operations − specifically, programmatic advertising and affiliate commerce. In keeping with these changes, BuzzFeed has concentrated on boosting constituent brands like BuzzFeed, HuffPost, and Tasty to increase audience engagement. The company has also exploited artificial intelligence to enhance content initiatives. Simultaneously, while acknowledging the industry challenges posed by larger competitors like Facebook and Instagram, BuzzFeed has increased focus on personalized and targeted campaigns to adapt to evolving consumer behaviour. A broader industry issue was highlighted by Peretti during the call when he said, "The current state of affairs is not the best where there's just this ongoing and fierce battle between these social platforms. And as a result, they've kind of stopped focusing as much on how to be good partners to the larger ecosystem." Responding to these dynamics, BuzzFeed has initiated efforts aimed at reducing its overpowering dependence on dominant platforms for traffic. Instead, it is prioritizing owned channels for content projects. By capitalizing on artificial intelligence, focussing on high-margin revenue streams, restructuring the sales teams, and continuously innovating, BuzzFeed is aligning itself to achieve growth and profitability. While the company's strategic realignment is indicative of a robust response to the industry's ever-changing landscape, BuzzFeed's fortunes will hinge on the effectiveness of these new measures as well as prevailing industry trends. The ability to successfully adapt, innovate and remain resilient in the volatile digital media space will dictate the company's future performance. Company info: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/null/profile For more PSFK research : www.psfk.com  This email has been published and shared for the purpose of business research and is not intended as investment advice.

Journalist Ben Smith tells the story of how digital media organisations became addicted to "going viral" in his new book Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. He was founding editor-in-chief of recently deceased digital news site BuzzFeed News, which along with HuffPost, Breitbart and Gawker Media represented a new world of online media in the early 2000s. His book tells the inside story of how rivals Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed. and Nick Denton of Gawker Media started the race for virality blamed for the rise of disinformation. Ben Smith is the Editor in Chief of Semafor, a new global news company and a former media columnist for The New York Times.

A benefit of my job is that I can read a book, enjoy it, and then interview the person who wrote it. This is exactly what happened after I binged Ben Smith's Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. Ben, now a founder of Semafor, formerly of the New York Times, and before that, EIC of Buzzfeed News, has written a contemporary history of the early news era in social media. There's a lot about 2006-2016 that already seems foreign in retrospect. Ben's book takes you back there, from the perspective of some major figures who tried to harness viral content to their own ends. Our conversation touches on, but is not limited to the following topics: * How did the New York Times win the big war over the future of media?* Jonah Peretti vs. Nick Denton (Buzzfeed vs. Gawker)* Was Nick Denton a genius? * Why Ben thinks that the Facebook app and Twitter app are dying* Is the NBA media more corrupt than other kinds of media?* Why are individuals gaining and institutions are losing? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.houseofstrauss.com/subscribe

Content creator, chef and soon-to-be restaurateur Tue Nguyen (who goes by @TwayDaBae on her social media accounts) started working with BuzzFeed as the host of its Tasty show, "Making it Big," in 2022. After filming two seasons of the show, and recording monthly videos for the cooking brand's channels as part of her role within the BuzzFeed Creator Network, Nguyen is now developing a new show with Tasty that will better showcase who she is as a content creator. In the past year, Nguyen has signed a cookbook deal, started the process of opening a fine dining restaurant in Los Angeles and both maintained and grew her owned-and-operated channels, all in addition to her partnership with BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed's CEO Jonah Peretti has stated that the company's path to growth will be largely dependent on its work with content creators like Nguyen, but Nguyen said during the latest episode of the Digiday Podcast that she has grown a lot as an individual creator because of what she learned while working with the digital media company.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.comBen Smith, co-founder of Semafor and former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, joins Jordan to discuss his new book Traffic: Genius, Rivalry and Delusion In The Billion-Dollar Race To Go Viral. The two discuss how the rivalry between Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed's co-founder and CEO, and Nick Denton, founder of Gawker, shaped the digital news landscape, how p…

In a twist on the standard Remnant formula that nobody asked for, Jonah is joined by noted chicken wing connoisseur Steve Hayes to co-host today's episode. Their guest is Ben Smith, founder of Semafor, former editor in chief of BuzzFeed News, and author of the new book, Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. The book takes us back to the early days of the internet to explore how the rivalry between Jonah Peretti of BuzzFeed and Nick Denton of Gawker paved the way for today's climate of disinformation, and naturally, it raises a number of questions. How has journalism changed since the dawn of the internet? Why does the young right tend to confuse social media with real life? What can we do to fix the media landscape? And will Jonah ever get over the golden age of blogging? Show Notes: - Ben's new book, Traffic - Ben: “Confessions of a Media Chronicler” - Semafor - The Great Moon Hoax - Benjy Sarlin: “Take Donald Trump seriously, not literally, on ‘fake news'” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

歡迎留言告訴我們你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/cl81kivnk00dn01wffhwxdg2s/comments 每日英語跟讀 Ep.K568: Buzzfeed News to Close as Company Implements Workforce Reduction Buzzfeed, the digital media company known for its quizzes and viral content, has announced the closure of its news site and a reduction of its workforce by 15%, according to CEO Jonah Peretti. The decision comes as Buzzfeed faces financial challenges, including a decline in advertising spending. Mr. Peretti stated that the company cannot continue to invest in the unprofitable news site and will focus on delivering news through its acquisition, HuffPost. This decision, although deeply painful, is part of Buzzfeed's strategy to navigate the changing landscape of the media industry and ensure a brighter future. 據首席執行官Jonah Peretti稱，以發佈測驗和爆紅內容而聞名的數位媒體公司Buzzfeed宣布關閉其新聞網站，並將裁員15%。該決定是在Buzzfeed面臨財務挑戰（包括廣告收益下降）時做出的。Peretti先生表示，公司不能繼續投資於未盈利的新聞網站，爾後將通過收購來的HuffPost繼續提供新聞。這個決定雖然非常痛苦，卻是Buzzfeed應對變化迅速的媒體業制定邁向更光明未來的策略之一。 Buzzfeed, founded in 2006, was once a prominent name in online media, with a reputation for both entertainment and serious news content. However, the company has shifted away from news in recent years as generating ad revenue and audiences became more difficult. Other lines of business, such as producing custom content, grew more quickly. Despite listing on the stock exchange in 2021, Buzzfeed raised less funding than anticipated. Buzzfeed成立於2006年，曾經是網絡媒體中的知名品牌，以製作娛樂和嚴肅的新聞內容著稱。然而，隨著提升受眾和廣告收入變得更加困難，該公司近年來已經不再關注新聞。其他業務，例如製作客製內容，對業績成長更加迅速。儘管Buzzfeed於2021年在證券交易所上市，但籌集的資金卻少於預期。 Mr. Peretti acknowledged that the challenges faced by Buzzfeed were not solely external, but also internal. He admitted to being slow in accepting the difficulties of monetizing online news in an era dominated by big tech platforms. He also expressed regret at not managing the changes better as the CEO of the company. Peretti先生承認，Buzzfeed面臨的挑戰不僅僅是外部的，還有內部的。他承認，在由大型科技平台主導的時代，將線上新聞變現十分困難並且進展緩慢。他也對作為公司首席執行官沒有更好地掌握局勢表達歉意。 Buzzfeed News Editor-in-Chief, Karolina Waclawiak, also shared her thoughts on the closure in a memo to staff, stating that the company should have tried to build a business around its news site earlier, and describing the closure as "avoidable". She expressed concerns about the wider crisis in journalism and the potential consequences of subscription-based news models that may limit access to high-quality information for those who cannot afford to pay, leading to increased misinformation on social platforms. Buzzfeed新聞主編Karolina Waclawiak在給員工的筆記中也分享了她對網站關閉的看法，稱公司本應早些嘗試基於其新聞網站開展業務，並將關閉網站描述為“可避免的”。她對新聞業更廣泛的危機以及基於訂閱的新聞模式潛在後果表示擔憂，這些模式可能會限制那些無力支付的人獲得高品質資訊，從而導致社交平台上的錯誤信息增加。 The latest round of cuts will affect approximately 180 jobs, and Buzzfeed expects to incur charges of $7m - $11m in severance and related expenses. Despite these challenges, Buzzfeed will continue to operate other parts of its business, including HuffPost, its food brand Tasty, Complex Networks, and its namesake website. 最新一批裁員潮將影響大約180個工作崗位，Buzzfeed預計將產生700萬至1100萬美元的遣散費和相關費用。儘管面臨這些挑戰，Buzzfeed仍將繼續經營其他部分的業務，包括HuffPost、其食品品牌Tasty、Complex Networks及其同名網站。 Shares of Buzzfeed fell by 20% on the news, resulting in a market value of approximately $100m, a significant decrease from its reported valuation of over $1.5bn just two years ago. The company remains committed to navigating the changing media landscape and finding new ways to deliver content to its audiences. 受此消息影響Buzzfeed的股價下跌20%，市值約為1億美元，與兩年前報導的超過15億美元估值相比大幅下降。該公司仍然投入在不斷變化的媒體局勢，並尋找新的方式向其受眾提供內容。Reference article: https://www.bbc.com/news/65341450 Powered by Firstory Hosting

Rapid Response with Bob Safian: If the most prestigious aspect of your business isn't paying dividends, should you leave it in the past? BuzzFeed's co-founder and CEO, Jonah Peretti discusses the surprising decision to shutter the Pulitzer Prize-winning BuzzFeed News, and how the company seeks to re-anchor toward the bright future of media. In his third appearance on Rapid Response, Peretti shares lessons about redefining the tool of social media, leading a private versus public business, and how to tune-out the external noise.Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com/Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter at http://eepurl.com/dlirtXSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rapid Response with Bob Safian: If the most prestigious aspect of your business isn't paying dividends, should you leave it in the past? BuzzFeed's co-founder and CEO, Jonah Peretti discusses the surprising decision to shutter the Pulitzer Prize-winning BuzzFeed News, and how the company seeks to re-anchor toward the bright future of media. In his third appearance on Rapid Response, Peretti shares lessons about redefining the tool of social media, leading a private versus public business, and how to tune-out the external noise.Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com/Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter: https://mastersofscale.com/subscribeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ben Smith is the former and founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, the founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author of a new book called Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, which is about the rise and fall of the social platform age in media, through the lens of Gawker Media and Buzzfeed and, in particular, their founders, Nick Denton and Jonah Peretti. I say the fall of the social platform age pretty literally: just before we spoke, Buzzfeed actually shut down Buzzfeed News, saying it just wasn't making enough money, Facebook and the rest are all in on vertical video, and the chaos at Twitter means a lot of baseline media industry assumptions are now up for grabs. Ben and I talked about a lot – where do journalists build their brands now? Where does traffic even come from anymore? What's next? Of course, we talked about Semafor as well. Ben and his co-founder, Justin Smith, raised $25 million and launched a news website, newsletters, and events covering the US and sub-Saharan Africa, with plans to expand into other regions. I wanted to know what lessons from Buzzfeed Ben brought into Semafor and, honestly, how he's thinking about building an audience instead of just trying to get traffic.  This is a good one. The book's great, too. Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23470662 Links: Traffic by Ben Smith What Colors Are This Dress?  TikTok - The Verge Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone'? We asked CEO Chris Best - The Verge MyPillow CEO's free speech social network will ban posts that take the Lord's name in vain - The Verge Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News Cambridge Analytica: understanding Facebook's data privacy scandal - The Verge 28 Signs You Were Raised By Persian Parents In America Here's The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Attacker More Than 180 Women Have Reported Sexual Assaults At Massage Envy Macedonia's Pro-Trump Fake News Industry Had American Links, And Is Under Investigation For Possible Russia Ties Watching Silicon Valley Bank melt down from the front row, with Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras - Decoder, The Verge  Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. It was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott with help from Hadley Robinson and it was edited by Callie Wright.  The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Editorial Director is Brooke Minters and our Executive Director is Eleanor Donovan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's our first four-way pod, featuring BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, Gawker founder Nick Denton, and Semafor founder (and former editor-in-chief of the recently shuttered BuzzFeed News) Ben Smith, who wrote a book about them both. Peter Kafka talks to all of them in conjunction with Smith's new book “Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral.” What lessons did Smith learn from Peretti and Denton's mistakes? If Disney offers to buy you out for hundreds of millions of dollars, should you take it? And is TikTok our last, best hope? Featuring: Jonah Peretti (@peretti), Founder of BuzzFeed Nick Denton (@nicknotned), Founder of Gawker Ben Smith, (@semaforben), Editor-In-Chief of Semafor Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week's Nose is gonna make three 10X trades: 1K to 10K, 10K to a hundred, hundred to a million. Boom. On April 20, Twitter stripped its blue check marks from the accounts of public figures and others who weren't paying for them. Including many celebrities, who then went on to drag Twitter about how much they don't care. At the same time, there seems to be a growing feeling (again) that Twitter might be dying. And: Beef is a Netflix comedy-drama limited series created by Lee Sung Jin and starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong. It “follows the aftermath of a road rage incident between two strangers.” Beef is currently the most popular TV series on Rotten Tomatoes and #2 in TV Shows Today on Netflix. Jacques Lamarre's endorsement: Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green Tracy Wu Fastenberg's endorsements: The Charles in Wethersfield, Connecticut Comstock, Ferre & Co. in Wethersfield, Connecticut Bill Yousman's endorsements Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Services in Bloomfield, Connecticut Keep Your Courage by Natalie Merchant the music of Prince Colin's endorsements: apple blossoms poetry sleep Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: Ahmad Jamal, Whose Spare Style Redefined Jazz Piano, Dies at 92 He was known for his laid-back style and for his influence on, among others, Miles Davis, who once said, “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.” Netflix Will End Its DVD Service, 5.2 Billion Discs Later Sending movies through the mail, in recognizable red-and-white envelopes, helped the company become a behemoth in Hollywood. Yes, People Will Pay $27,500 for an Old ‘Rocky' Tape. Here's Why. Collectors are finding that their childhood has a price — and it's going up. When the future is frightening, it's boom times at the nostalgia factory. Netflix's Love Is Blind Live Failure Had Big ‘Game Servers Are Down' Energy The streaming service tried its second-ever live broadcast for the highly anticipated Love Is Blind reunion Hollywood Writers Approve of Strike as Shutdown Looms The writers have not gone on strike in 15 years, and the vote gives their unions the right to call for a walkout when their contract expires on May 1. What the death of a literary magazine says about our cultural decay BuzzFeed Shuts Down Its News Division BuzzFeed News, which won a Pulitzer Prize but never made money, is “beginning the process of closing,” the company's founder, Jonah Peretti, said in a memo to employees. ‘Air' and the Argument for Letting the Talent Share in the Profits The movie's focus (how Michael Jordan got a cut from Nike) reflects what its filmmakers, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, are trying to do in their new venture. Fringe's Finest Hour Is Sci-Fi's Most Profound Exploration of Faith and Science “I've asked God for a sign of forgiveness. A specific one, a white tulip.” Scientists discovered a new ‘quasi-moon' orbiting Earth McDonald's is upgrading its burgers The Myth of the Broke Millennial After a rough start, the generation is thriving. Why doesn't it feel that way? After he sold his company for over $1 billion, Ryan Reynolds' investing spree continues with a fintech company that has ties to Binance and DraftKings Hot 100 First-Timers: Jack Black Scores First Solo Hit With ‘Super Mario Bros.' Ballad ‘Peaches' The song debuts at No. 83. An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake' and ‘The Weeknd' Rattles the Music World A track like “Heart on My Sleeve,” which went viral before being taken down by streaming services this week, may be a novelty for now. But the legal and creative questions it raises are here to stay. GUESTS: Jacques Lamarre: A playwright and chief communications officer at Buzz Engine Tracy Wu Fastenberg: Development officer at Connecticut Children's Bill Yousman: Professor of media studies at Sacred Heart University The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show. Our programming is made possible thanks to listeners like you. Please consider supporting this show and Connecticut Public with a donation today.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Regalamos un despiojamiento gratis a cada nuevo suscriptor de nuestra newsletter: https://www.monosestocasticos.com/ Noticias: El anuncio de Jasper comentado por Andrés Torrubia (tiene vídeo): https://twitter.com/antor/status/1619275831347675136 Open AI contrató a un regimiento de programadores para entrenar a su IA: https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/01/27/2023/openais-army El Pentágono actualiza su directiva sobre armas autónomas por primera vez en una década con consideraciones éticas sobre la IA y pronósticos de guerras por venir: https://gizmodo.com/ai-pentagon-war-directive-warns-increasing-role-drones-1850036547 Un robot de metal líquido que logra atravesar los barrotes como en ‘Terminator 2': https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-01-25/un-robot-de-metal-liquido-que-logra-atravesar-los-barrotes-como-en-terminator-2.html "Nada más horrible que armas que no necesiten de la intervención humana para tomar decisiones a vida o muerte" Jody Williams: https://www.xataka.com/entrevistas/nada-mas-horrible-mas-que-armas-que-no-necesiten-de-la-intervencion-humana-para-tomar-decisiones-a-vida-o-muerte-jody-williams "La IA es un peligro tan comparable como las armas nucleares", dijo el profesor de IA de la Universidad de Oxford Michael Osborne: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rogue-ai-could-kill-everyone-3bsfttpmv Boston Dynamics dice que no pondrá armas en sus robots: https://www.elespanol.com/omicrono/defensa-y-espacio/20221007/boston-dynamics-no-pondra-armas-robots-hagan/708929343_0.html Google Research ha anunciado MusicLM, una IA capaz de generar música a partir de texto e imágenes https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/ La sintonía de monos estocásticos en Soundful: https://my.soundful.com/s/63bfea50d7f1a63fc31c3b28 OpenAI lanza un clasificador de texto que puede decirte si fue generado por AI. Funciona con resultados de 34 modelos de 5 organizaciones, incluido ChatGPT: https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier "Mi profesor me acusa falsamente de usar ChatGPT en mi trabajo" tras usar GPTZero: https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/10qfyly/my_professor_falsely_accused_me_of_using_chatgpt/ Una imagen autogenerada de cuatro mujeres en ropa interior engaña a los usuarios de Forocoches: https://forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=9427645 https://twitter.com/heartereum/status/1618973299739951105 Puerta grande o enfermería Roast - IA para mejorar tus citas de Tinder: https://roast.dating/ Flame AI - Todas tus preguntas sobre relaciones sentimentales respondidas por una IA del amor: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/flamme-ai Roboticistas quieren darte un tercer brazo https://spectrum.ieee.org/human-augmentation El tema de la semana No había que sacar la bola de cristal para adivinar que una IA generadora de textos se iba a a aplicar a, en fin, generar textos en proyectos de contenidos en internet. A algunos les está yendo mejor: https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/10g114y/how_i_increased_my_websites_impressions_by_x5/ Y a otros peor: https://twitter.com/llopatin/status/1614947887837855746  Por su parte, el CEO de BuzzFeed, Jonah Peretti, anuncia en un memo interno que Buzzfeed utilizará ChatGPT para personalizar contenido, pero no el periodístico. Promete no reducir plantilla y dice que "las empresas de medios digitales que optan por confiar en la IA únicamente para ahorrar costes y producir contenidos de baja calidad están haciendo un uso terrible de la tecnología" https://www.wsj.com/articles/buzzfeed-to-use-chatgpt-creator-openai-to-help-create-some-of-its-content-11674752660 ¡Ah! Y explicamos otra vez el nombre de monos estocásticos, esta vez con una referencia a Los Simpson. Monos estocásticos es un podcast sobre inteligencia artificial presentado por Antonio Ortiz (@antonello) y Matías S. Zavia (@matiass). Más en monosestocasticos.com

Stai ascoltando un estratto gratuito di Ninja PRO, la selezione quotidiana di notizie per i professionisti del digital business. Con Ninja PRO puoi avere ogni giorno marketing insight, social media update, tech news, business events e una selezione di articoli di approfondimento dagli esperti della Redazione Ninja. Vai su www.ninja.it/ninjapro per abbonarti al servizio.TikTok, i licenziamenti sono di tendenza. Stavolta non si tratta di Great Resignation o Quiet Quitting, ma dei layoff legati alla recessione tecnologica. Mentre sempre più persone perdono il lavoro, si rivolgono a TikTok per condividere le loro storie e connettersi con altri utenti nella stessa barca o cercare un nuovo impiego. L'algoritmo della piattaforma promuove questi video sulla scia dei tagli crescenti rendendoli virali. Google crea l'AI in grado di generare musica da descrizioni testuali. Un nuovo e impressionante sistema di intelligenza artificiale di Big G è in grado di generare musica di qualsiasi genere, se si fornisce un prompt testuale. L'azienda, tuttavia, temendo i rischi, non ha intenzione di rilasciarlo immediatamente. MusicLM è stato addestrato su un set di dati di 280.000 ore di musica per imparare a generare canzoni coerenti per descrizioni di "significativa complessità". Ma non è tutto, l'AI può anche essere istruita tramite una combinazione di immagini e didascalie, o generare un audio "suonato" da uno specifico tipo di strumento in un determinato genere. BuzzFeed utilizzerà il creatore di ChatGPT OpenAI per creare quiz e altri contenuti. L'amministratore delegato di Buzzfeed, Jonah Peretti, ha annunciato che quest'anno l'intelligenza artificiale avrà un ruolo maggiore nelle operazioni editoriali e commerciali dell'azienda. L'intelligenza artificiale aiuterà il processo creativo e migliorerà i contenuti dell'azienda, mentre gli esseri umani forniranno idee e ispirazione. Secondo Peretti, in futuro l'intelligenza artificiale contribuirà a creare, personalizzare e animare i contenuti, anziché limitarsi a curare quelli esistenti.

Hey everybody, I’m Joe Miller and here’s what’s going on in the world of tech law & policy this week. ChatGPT is still at the top of headlines this week with Buzzfeed announcing that it’s going to use generative AI to produce “select” content. Buzzfeed’s CEO Jonah Peretti says he wants BuzzFeed to lead the future of AI-powered content. This comes only days after CNET faced scrutiny for using AI to produce content for years. And a lot of writers and journalists are worried about their jobs, as they should be. Prominent BuzzFeed journalist Max Collins told Peretti to “get f*cked.” But shareholders loved the news, rose by just over 85 percent at today’s closing bell to $3.87 per share. And on the education front, NPR reports that a University of Pennsylvania Wharton professor, Ethan Mollick, told them that “everyone is cheating.” This comes after ChatGPT aced an MBA exam earlier last week.. But Mollick decided to go ahead and make using ChatGPT a course requirement. But prominent science journals like Elsevier and Springer Nature are prohibitting ChatGPT from being listed as a co-author. And Google has text to music AI that makes songwriting a cinch with just one or two word prompts. What else? Trump’s back on Facebook. Meta made the decision to reinstate Trump because a company Global Affairs Exec Nick Clegg says enough time has passed since the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. On the medical mis and disinformation front, a California judge has blocked the state’s new law that prohibits doctors from giving COVID-19 misinformation. The judge rules that the misinformation standard is too vague.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief for Friday, December 9th, 2022. Happy Friday everyone! I hope you’ve had a good week and are heading into the weekend strong… before we get to the news: Club Membership Plug: Its Christmas, join our club. During December, the first 75 people to upgrade or join our Gold or Platinum club membership will get our 32OZ Kodiak Christmas water bottle and a free subscription to our Fight Laugh Feast Magazine. By joining the Fight Laugh Feast Army, not only will you be aiding in our fight to take down secular & legacy media; but you’ll also get access to content placed in our Club Portal, such as past shows, all of our conference talks, and EXCLUSIVE content for club members that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Lastly, you’ll also get discounts for our conferences… We don’t have the big money of woke media, and so our club members are crucial in this fight. So, join the movement, join our army, and you can sign up now at fightlaughfeast.com. https://www.theepochtimes.com/house-passes-bill-declaring-federal-right-to-same-sex-marriage_4911736.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport House Passes Bill Codifying Federal Right to Same Sex Marriage The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Dec. 8 that would codify same-sex and interracial marriage as a federally recognized right. The Respect for Marriage Act, or H.R. 8404, passed on a bipartisan 258–169 vote. Thirty-nine Republicans joined all Democrats in the lower chamber to pass the bill. One Republican voted present, and four didn’t vote. The legislation now heads to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature into law; he has said he’ll sign it. The House had approved the measure in July but was voting again because the Senate amended the proposal in November. The bill includes a codification of the Supreme Court’s 2014 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which declared a federal right to same-sex marriage on grounds of the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection” clause. “I began my career fighting for LGBTQ communities—and now, one of the final bills that I will sign as Speaker will ensure the federal government never again stands in the way of marrying the person you love,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a recent statement. Critics of the bill have warned of the potential for it to target faith-based organizations and have refuted the notion that it’s merely a codification of Obergefell. “The truth is the Respect for Marriage Act does nothing to change the status of same-sex marriage or the benefits afforded to same-sex couples following Obergefell,” the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom wrote in a blog post. “It does much, however, to endanger religious freedom.” The Alliance Defending Freedom described the bill as “a direct attack on the religious freedom of millions of Americans with sincerely held beliefs about marriage.” They said that by recognizing same-sex marriage in law, the bill “embeds a false definition of marriage in the American legal fabric.” Further, “it opens the door to federal recognition of polygamous relationships” and “jeopardizes the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that exercise their belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.” Republican proponents of the bill rejected the claim, saying that it ensured that same-sex marriages would be protected while respecting the rights of faith-based institutions. The Senate passed the final package of the Respect for Marriage Act on Nov. 28. Ahead of a key vote to advance the package, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who often defects from his party on legislation, tied his support for the bill to protections of the religious freedoms of faith-based institutions. “If it includes important protections for religions and religious institutions, I will support it,” Romney told Politico. Other Republicans, including Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) demurred from telling reporters how they’d vote on advancing the bill ahead of the vote. Ultimately, the bill garnered enough support to pass the upper chamber easily. Twelve Republicans joined Democrats to support the bill, including Romney, Ernst, and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio). https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-prisoner-exchange-britney-griner-leaves-behind-marine-veteran-paul-whelan-again Biden prisoner exchange for Brittney Griner leaves behind Marine veteran Paul Whelan — again President Biden's prisoner exchange with Russia secured the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday, but left U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan in Russian custody. Whelan has been in Russian custody since 2018 when he was sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges. Griner had been in Russian custody since February after authorities discovered vape cartridges containing a small amount of cannabis oil in her luggage. Biden's administration had initially sought the release of both Griner and Whelan in exchange for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, a Russian citizen serving a prison sentence in America. Known colloquially as the "Merchant of Death," he was convicted in 2011 of conspiracy to kill Americans and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The Biden administration ultimately agreed to exchange Bout for Griner alone, leaving Whelan behind in Russia. Nevertheless, Whelan's brother, David Whelan, congratulated Griner on her release in a Thursday statement, but lamented the Biden administration's failure to release his brother. David's statement went on to note that the Biden administration notified the Whelan family that Paul would be left behind in the exchange. The statement noted that it was the second time the Biden administration had left Paul behind in a prisoner exchange, with the last instance coming in April. He pushed the Biden administration to be more aggressive in its efforts to get Americans released, going so far as to say the U.S. should arrest more Russians for exchange. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/12/06/army-keeps-booting-covid-vaccine-refusers-shot-requirement-may-be-dropped.html The Army Keeps Booting COVID Vaccine Refusers as Shot Requirement May Be Dropped The Pentagon's COVID-19 vaccine mandate appears on the verge of being eliminated by Congress after just over a year, yet the Army -- the only remaining service to never slow down separating troops who refuse inoculation -- said Monday it will not pause those separations. The Army has kicked out 1,841 active-duty soldiers for refusing inoculation, according to the latest service data released Friday. The Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force have halted or been barred by the courts from continuing separations, particularly for troops requesting religious exemptions, as legal fights play out over Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's August 2021 order that all service members be vaccinated. Now, lawmakers might strike a deal to nix the vaccine mandate as part of the annual defense authorization bill after Republicans pushed for the repeal and the Marine Corps said vaccine disinformation in parts of the country is hurting recruiting. A vaccine mandate reversal could also set up an unprecedented legal fight with troops seeking compensation for their dismissal or fighting to be brought back into the ranks. The details of the massive defense bill were expected to be released Tuesday, and it was unclear whether the soldiers who were kicked out would be allowed to return to service or be provided compensation by Congress. On Saturday, Politico reported the Democratic chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, put the mandate on the table in negotiations over the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which sets funding and policy priorities for the Defense Department. Since the pandemic began, GOP lawmakers have attempted to stonewall efforts to combat the spread of infections or boost immunities and have used the Pentagon's inoculation mandate as a partisan rallying cry. Troops are required only to get the initial vaccination, not a booster shot. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it's unknown how long the vaccinations protect against the worst effects of COVID-19, though they're estimated to remain effective for about a year, and many service members were vaccinated in early 2021. For now, the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps are in a holding pattern on removing troops due to court challenges. Some 1,200 Coast Guardsmen are part of a class-action lawsuit due to their religious exemptions being denied. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/fbi-used-secret-powers-to-strip-more-americans-of-their-gun-rights-documents-reveal FBI used secret powers to strip more Americans of their gun rights, documents reveal The FBI has secretly stripped eight more people of their rights to own, use, or purchase firearms , according to internal FBI documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and over a dozen GOP members of Congress in October demanded that the FBI and Justice Department hand over proof that the FBI is no longer waiving people's gun rights with internal forms, which the Daily Caller uncovered in September had been signed by 15 people. Now, the Washington Examiner has obtained eight heavily redacted signed forms — indicating a more widespread bureau effort than previously known to target the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. "Americans can't simply sign their constitutional rights away, even to the FBI," Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX), who signed the October letter, told the Washington Examiner. "As Republicans enter a House majority, we must use our investigative power to put a check on federal agencies who have proven to be eager and willing to crack down on Americans' right to keep and bear arms." Through the forms, the FBI asked signatories to identify as a "danger" to themselves or others or lacking the “mental capacity adequately to contract or manage” their lives. The forms were presented by the FBI to people at their homes and in other undisclosed locations beginning in at least 2016 and until December 2019, when the FBI claims it was discontinued. While two of the new eight forms have redacted dates for when they were signed, the other six are dated between March 2018 and April 2019. The signed forms were obtained by Gun Owners of America, a firearms rights group, as part of its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the bureau to compel the disclosure of records. They were then shared with the Washington Examiner. https://www.dailyfetched.com/avalanche-of-media-outlets-are-firing-staff-or-shutting-down-completely/ Avalanche of Media Outlets are Firing Staff or Shutting Down Completely More and more media outlets are firing staff or shutting down altogether as the economy under President Joe Biden continues to tank amid a huge public narrative shift. One left-leaning outlet, The Recount, shut down entirely after receiving a whopping $34,000,000 from investors, which they can’t make back. The outlet needed help finding a profitable business model. Meanwhile, AMC network announced it was laying off a fifth of its staff. The layoffs at AMC Networks come at a time when several media companies, including Amazon and Facebook-parent Meta Platforms, are making deep cuts to their employee base to navigate a potential downturn in the economy, the Daily Mail noted. Earlier this week, BuzzFeed announced it would be axing 12% of its workforce. The Daily Fetched reported the outlet faced a brutal ad-spending pullback amid an ongoing economic downturn. Buzzfeed staffers were notified by email Tuesday that they were losing their jobs. CEO Jonah Peretti wrote in a memo to employees: “In order for BuzzFeed to weather an economic downturn that I believe will extend well into 2023, we must adapt, invest in our strategy to serve our audience best, and readjust our cost structure.” NBC Universal also announced it was laying off staff, with cuts expected mainly in broadcast and cable TV groups. The headcount reduction is set for 2023 to hit budget targets. NPR announced it was having a near hiring freeze and budget cuts in anticipation of a $20 million shortfall in financial sponsorships this fiscal year. Meanwhile, the Washington Post ended its Sunday magazine and also eliminated positions. The Post’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, announced the outlet would end in its current form after printing on Dec. 25. Gannett, America’s largest newspaper publisher, also announced it would be six percent of its staffers as the company struggles financially. Americans trust in media is at record low amid a huge public narrative shift. As Gallup reported: At 34%, Americans’ trust in the mass media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly” is essentially unchanged from last year and just two points higher than the lowest that Gallup has recorded, in 2016 during the presidential campaign. Just 7% of Americans have “a great deal” of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have “a fair amount.” Meanwhile, 28% of U.S. adults say they do not have very much confidence and 38% have none at all in newspapers, TV and radio. Notably, this is the first time that the percentage of Americans with no trust at all in the media is higher than the percentage with a great deal or a fair amount combined.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief for Friday, December 9th, 2022. Happy Friday everyone! I hope you’ve had a good week and are heading into the weekend strong… before we get to the news: Club Membership Plug: Its Christmas, join our club. During December, the first 75 people to upgrade or join our Gold or Platinum club membership will get our 32OZ Kodiak Christmas water bottle and a free subscription to our Fight Laugh Feast Magazine. By joining the Fight Laugh Feast Army, not only will you be aiding in our fight to take down secular & legacy media; but you’ll also get access to content placed in our Club Portal, such as past shows, all of our conference talks, and EXCLUSIVE content for club members that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Lastly, you’ll also get discounts for our conferences… We don’t have the big money of woke media, and so our club members are crucial in this fight. So, join the movement, join our army, and you can sign up now at fightlaughfeast.com. https://www.theepochtimes.com/house-passes-bill-declaring-federal-right-to-same-sex-marriage_4911736.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport House Passes Bill Codifying Federal Right to Same Sex Marriage The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Dec. 8 that would codify same-sex and interracial marriage as a federally recognized right. The Respect for Marriage Act, or H.R. 8404, passed on a bipartisan 258–169 vote. Thirty-nine Republicans joined all Democrats in the lower chamber to pass the bill. One Republican voted present, and four didn’t vote. The legislation now heads to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature into law; he has said he’ll sign it. The House had approved the measure in July but was voting again because the Senate amended the proposal in November. The bill includes a codification of the Supreme Court’s 2014 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which declared a federal right to same-sex marriage on grounds of the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection” clause. “I began my career fighting for LGBTQ communities—and now, one of the final bills that I will sign as Speaker will ensure the federal government never again stands in the way of marrying the person you love,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a recent statement. Critics of the bill have warned of the potential for it to target faith-based organizations and have refuted the notion that it’s merely a codification of Obergefell. “The truth is the Respect for Marriage Act does nothing to change the status of same-sex marriage or the benefits afforded to same-sex couples following Obergefell,” the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom wrote in a blog post. “It does much, however, to endanger religious freedom.” The Alliance Defending Freedom described the bill as “a direct attack on the religious freedom of millions of Americans with sincerely held beliefs about marriage.” They said that by recognizing same-sex marriage in law, the bill “embeds a false definition of marriage in the American legal fabric.” Further, “it opens the door to federal recognition of polygamous relationships” and “jeopardizes the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that exercise their belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.” Republican proponents of the bill rejected the claim, saying that it ensured that same-sex marriages would be protected while respecting the rights of faith-based institutions. The Senate passed the final package of the Respect for Marriage Act on Nov. 28. Ahead of a key vote to advance the package, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who often defects from his party on legislation, tied his support for the bill to protections of the religious freedoms of faith-based institutions. “If it includes important protections for religions and religious institutions, I will support it,” Romney told Politico. Other Republicans, including Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) demurred from telling reporters how they’d vote on advancing the bill ahead of the vote. Ultimately, the bill garnered enough support to pass the upper chamber easily. Twelve Republicans joined Democrats to support the bill, including Romney, Ernst, and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio). https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-prisoner-exchange-britney-griner-leaves-behind-marine-veteran-paul-whelan-again Biden prisoner exchange for Brittney Griner leaves behind Marine veteran Paul Whelan — again President Biden's prisoner exchange with Russia secured the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday, but left U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan in Russian custody. Whelan has been in Russian custody since 2018 when he was sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges. Griner had been in Russian custody since February after authorities discovered vape cartridges containing a small amount of cannabis oil in her luggage. Biden's administration had initially sought the release of both Griner and Whelan in exchange for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, a Russian citizen serving a prison sentence in America. Known colloquially as the "Merchant of Death," he was convicted in 2011 of conspiracy to kill Americans and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The Biden administration ultimately agreed to exchange Bout for Griner alone, leaving Whelan behind in Russia. Nevertheless, Whelan's brother, David Whelan, congratulated Griner on her release in a Thursday statement, but lamented the Biden administration's failure to release his brother. David's statement went on to note that the Biden administration notified the Whelan family that Paul would be left behind in the exchange. The statement noted that it was the second time the Biden administration had left Paul behind in a prisoner exchange, with the last instance coming in April. He pushed the Biden administration to be more aggressive in its efforts to get Americans released, going so far as to say the U.S. should arrest more Russians for exchange. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/12/06/army-keeps-booting-covid-vaccine-refusers-shot-requirement-may-be-dropped.html The Army Keeps Booting COVID Vaccine Refusers as Shot Requirement May Be Dropped The Pentagon's COVID-19 vaccine mandate appears on the verge of being eliminated by Congress after just over a year, yet the Army -- the only remaining service to never slow down separating troops who refuse inoculation -- said Monday it will not pause those separations. The Army has kicked out 1,841 active-duty soldiers for refusing inoculation, according to the latest service data released Friday. The Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force have halted or been barred by the courts from continuing separations, particularly for troops requesting religious exemptions, as legal fights play out over Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's August 2021 order that all service members be vaccinated. Now, lawmakers might strike a deal to nix the vaccine mandate as part of the annual defense authorization bill after Republicans pushed for the repeal and the Marine Corps said vaccine disinformation in parts of the country is hurting recruiting. A vaccine mandate reversal could also set up an unprecedented legal fight with troops seeking compensation for their dismissal or fighting to be brought back into the ranks. The details of the massive defense bill were expected to be released Tuesday, and it was unclear whether the soldiers who were kicked out would be allowed to return to service or be provided compensation by Congress. On Saturday, Politico reported the Democratic chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, put the mandate on the table in negotiations over the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which sets funding and policy priorities for the Defense Department. Since the pandemic began, GOP lawmakers have attempted to stonewall efforts to combat the spread of infections or boost immunities and have used the Pentagon's inoculation mandate as a partisan rallying cry. Troops are required only to get the initial vaccination, not a booster shot. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it's unknown how long the vaccinations protect against the worst effects of COVID-19, though they're estimated to remain effective for about a year, and many service members were vaccinated in early 2021. For now, the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps are in a holding pattern on removing troops due to court challenges. Some 1,200 Coast Guardsmen are part of a class-action lawsuit due to their religious exemptions being denied. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/fbi-used-secret-powers-to-strip-more-americans-of-their-gun-rights-documents-reveal FBI used secret powers to strip more Americans of their gun rights, documents reveal The FBI has secretly stripped eight more people of their rights to own, use, or purchase firearms , according to internal FBI documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and over a dozen GOP members of Congress in October demanded that the FBI and Justice Department hand over proof that the FBI is no longer waiving people's gun rights with internal forms, which the Daily Caller uncovered in September had been signed by 15 people. Now, the Washington Examiner has obtained eight heavily redacted signed forms — indicating a more widespread bureau effort than previously known to target the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. "Americans can't simply sign their constitutional rights away, even to the FBI," Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX), who signed the October letter, told the Washington Examiner. "As Republicans enter a House majority, we must use our investigative power to put a check on federal agencies who have proven to be eager and willing to crack down on Americans' right to keep and bear arms." Through the forms, the FBI asked signatories to identify as a "danger" to themselves or others or lacking the “mental capacity adequately to contract or manage” their lives. The forms were presented by the FBI to people at their homes and in other undisclosed locations beginning in at least 2016 and until December 2019, when the FBI claims it was discontinued. While two of the new eight forms have redacted dates for when they were signed, the other six are dated between March 2018 and April 2019. The signed forms were obtained by Gun Owners of America, a firearms rights group, as part of its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the bureau to compel the disclosure of records. They were then shared with the Washington Examiner. https://www.dailyfetched.com/avalanche-of-media-outlets-are-firing-staff-or-shutting-down-completely/ Avalanche of Media Outlets are Firing Staff or Shutting Down Completely More and more media outlets are firing staff or shutting down altogether as the economy under President Joe Biden continues to tank amid a huge public narrative shift. One left-leaning outlet, The Recount, shut down entirely after receiving a whopping $34,000,000 from investors, which they can’t make back. The outlet needed help finding a profitable business model. Meanwhile, AMC network announced it was laying off a fifth of its staff. The layoffs at AMC Networks come at a time when several media companies, including Amazon and Facebook-parent Meta Platforms, are making deep cuts to their employee base to navigate a potential downturn in the economy, the Daily Mail noted. Earlier this week, BuzzFeed announced it would be axing 12% of its workforce. The Daily Fetched reported the outlet faced a brutal ad-spending pullback amid an ongoing economic downturn. Buzzfeed staffers were notified by email Tuesday that they were losing their jobs. CEO Jonah Peretti wrote in a memo to employees: “In order for BuzzFeed to weather an economic downturn that I believe will extend well into 2023, we must adapt, invest in our strategy to serve our audience best, and readjust our cost structure.” NBC Universal also announced it was laying off staff, with cuts expected mainly in broadcast and cable TV groups. The headcount reduction is set for 2023 to hit budget targets. NPR announced it was having a near hiring freeze and budget cuts in anticipation of a $20 million shortfall in financial sponsorships this fiscal year. Meanwhile, the Washington Post ended its Sunday magazine and also eliminated positions. The Post’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, announced the outlet would end in its current form after printing on Dec. 25. Gannett, America’s largest newspaper publisher, also announced it would be six percent of its staffers as the company struggles financially. Americans trust in media is at record low amid a huge public narrative shift. As Gallup reported: At 34%, Americans’ trust in the mass media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly” is essentially unchanged from last year and just two points higher than the lowest that Gallup has recorded, in 2016 during the presidential campaign. Just 7% of Americans have “a great deal” of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have “a fair amount.” Meanwhile, 28% of U.S. adults say they do not have very much confidence and 38% have none at all in newspapers, TV and radio. Notably, this is the first time that the percentage of Americans with no trust at all in the media is higher than the percentage with a great deal or a fair amount combined.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief for Friday, December 9th, 2022. Happy Friday everyone! I hope you’ve had a good week and are heading into the weekend strong… before we get to the news: Club Membership Plug: Its Christmas, join our club. During December, the first 75 people to upgrade or join our Gold or Platinum club membership will get our 32OZ Kodiak Christmas water bottle and a free subscription to our Fight Laugh Feast Magazine. By joining the Fight Laugh Feast Army, not only will you be aiding in our fight to take down secular & legacy media; but you’ll also get access to content placed in our Club Portal, such as past shows, all of our conference talks, and EXCLUSIVE content for club members that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Lastly, you’ll also get discounts for our conferences… We don’t have the big money of woke media, and so our club members are crucial in this fight. So, join the movement, join our army, and you can sign up now at fightlaughfeast.com. https://www.theepochtimes.com/house-passes-bill-declaring-federal-right-to-same-sex-marriage_4911736.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport House Passes Bill Codifying Federal Right to Same Sex Marriage The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Dec. 8 that would codify same-sex and interracial marriage as a federally recognized right. The Respect for Marriage Act, or H.R. 8404, passed on a bipartisan 258–169 vote. Thirty-nine Republicans joined all Democrats in the lower chamber to pass the bill. One Republican voted present, and four didn’t vote. The legislation now heads to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature into law; he has said he’ll sign it. The House had approved the measure in July but was voting again because the Senate amended the proposal in November. The bill includes a codification of the Supreme Court’s 2014 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which declared a federal right to same-sex marriage on grounds of the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection” clause. “I began my career fighting for LGBTQ communities—and now, one of the final bills that I will sign as Speaker will ensure the federal government never again stands in the way of marrying the person you love,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a recent statement. Critics of the bill have warned of the potential for it to target faith-based organizations and have refuted the notion that it’s merely a codification of Obergefell. “The truth is the Respect for Marriage Act does nothing to change the status of same-sex marriage or the benefits afforded to same-sex couples following Obergefell,” the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom wrote in a blog post. “It does much, however, to endanger religious freedom.” The Alliance Defending Freedom described the bill as “a direct attack on the religious freedom of millions of Americans with sincerely held beliefs about marriage.” They said that by recognizing same-sex marriage in law, the bill “embeds a false definition of marriage in the American legal fabric.” Further, “it opens the door to federal recognition of polygamous relationships” and “jeopardizes the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that exercise their belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.” Republican proponents of the bill rejected the claim, saying that it ensured that same-sex marriages would be protected while respecting the rights of faith-based institutions. The Senate passed the final package of the Respect for Marriage Act on Nov. 28. Ahead of a key vote to advance the package, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who often defects from his party on legislation, tied his support for the bill to protections of the religious freedoms of faith-based institutions. “If it includes important protections for religions and religious institutions, I will support it,” Romney told Politico. Other Republicans, including Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) demurred from telling reporters how they’d vote on advancing the bill ahead of the vote. Ultimately, the bill garnered enough support to pass the upper chamber easily. Twelve Republicans joined Democrats to support the bill, including Romney, Ernst, and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio). https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-prisoner-exchange-britney-griner-leaves-behind-marine-veteran-paul-whelan-again Biden prisoner exchange for Brittney Griner leaves behind Marine veteran Paul Whelan — again President Biden's prisoner exchange with Russia secured the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday, but left U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan in Russian custody. Whelan has been in Russian custody since 2018 when he was sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges. Griner had been in Russian custody since February after authorities discovered vape cartridges containing a small amount of cannabis oil in her luggage. Biden's administration had initially sought the release of both Griner and Whelan in exchange for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, a Russian citizen serving a prison sentence in America. Known colloquially as the "Merchant of Death," he was convicted in 2011 of conspiracy to kill Americans and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The Biden administration ultimately agreed to exchange Bout for Griner alone, leaving Whelan behind in Russia. Nevertheless, Whelan's brother, David Whelan, congratulated Griner on her release in a Thursday statement, but lamented the Biden administration's failure to release his brother. David's statement went on to note that the Biden administration notified the Whelan family that Paul would be left behind in the exchange. The statement noted that it was the second time the Biden administration had left Paul behind in a prisoner exchange, with the last instance coming in April. He pushed the Biden administration to be more aggressive in its efforts to get Americans released, going so far as to say the U.S. should arrest more Russians for exchange. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/12/06/army-keeps-booting-covid-vaccine-refusers-shot-requirement-may-be-dropped.html The Army Keeps Booting COVID Vaccine Refusers as Shot Requirement May Be Dropped The Pentagon's COVID-19 vaccine mandate appears on the verge of being eliminated by Congress after just over a year, yet the Army -- the only remaining service to never slow down separating troops who refuse inoculation -- said Monday it will not pause those separations. The Army has kicked out 1,841 active-duty soldiers for refusing inoculation, according to the latest service data released Friday. The Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force have halted or been barred by the courts from continuing separations, particularly for troops requesting religious exemptions, as legal fights play out over Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's August 2021 order that all service members be vaccinated. Now, lawmakers might strike a deal to nix the vaccine mandate as part of the annual defense authorization bill after Republicans pushed for the repeal and the Marine Corps said vaccine disinformation in parts of the country is hurting recruiting. A vaccine mandate reversal could also set up an unprecedented legal fight with troops seeking compensation for their dismissal or fighting to be brought back into the ranks. The details of the massive defense bill were expected to be released Tuesday, and it was unclear whether the soldiers who were kicked out would be allowed to return to service or be provided compensation by Congress. On Saturday, Politico reported the Democratic chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, put the mandate on the table in negotiations over the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which sets funding and policy priorities for the Defense Department. Since the pandemic began, GOP lawmakers have attempted to stonewall efforts to combat the spread of infections or boost immunities and have used the Pentagon's inoculation mandate as a partisan rallying cry. Troops are required only to get the initial vaccination, not a booster shot. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it's unknown how long the vaccinations protect against the worst effects of COVID-19, though they're estimated to remain effective for about a year, and many service members were vaccinated in early 2021. For now, the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps are in a holding pattern on removing troops due to court challenges. Some 1,200 Coast Guardsmen are part of a class-action lawsuit due to their religious exemptions being denied. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/fbi-used-secret-powers-to-strip-more-americans-of-their-gun-rights-documents-reveal FBI used secret powers to strip more Americans of their gun rights, documents reveal The FBI has secretly stripped eight more people of their rights to own, use, or purchase firearms , according to internal FBI documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and over a dozen GOP members of Congress in October demanded that the FBI and Justice Department hand over proof that the FBI is no longer waiving people's gun rights with internal forms, which the Daily Caller uncovered in September had been signed by 15 people. Now, the Washington Examiner has obtained eight heavily redacted signed forms — indicating a more widespread bureau effort than previously known to target the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. "Americans can't simply sign their constitutional rights away, even to the FBI," Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX), who signed the October letter, told the Washington Examiner. "As Republicans enter a House majority, we must use our investigative power to put a check on federal agencies who have proven to be eager and willing to crack down on Americans' right to keep and bear arms." Through the forms, the FBI asked signatories to identify as a "danger" to themselves or others or lacking the “mental capacity adequately to contract or manage” their lives. The forms were presented by the FBI to people at their homes and in other undisclosed locations beginning in at least 2016 and until December 2019, when the FBI claims it was discontinued. While two of the new eight forms have redacted dates for when they were signed, the other six are dated between March 2018 and April 2019. The signed forms were obtained by Gun Owners of America, a firearms rights group, as part of its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the bureau to compel the disclosure of records. They were then shared with the Washington Examiner. https://www.dailyfetched.com/avalanche-of-media-outlets-are-firing-staff-or-shutting-down-completely/ Avalanche of Media Outlets are Firing Staff or Shutting Down Completely More and more media outlets are firing staff or shutting down altogether as the economy under President Joe Biden continues to tank amid a huge public narrative shift. One left-leaning outlet, The Recount, shut down entirely after receiving a whopping $34,000,000 from investors, which they can’t make back. The outlet needed help finding a profitable business model. Meanwhile, AMC network announced it was laying off a fifth of its staff. The layoffs at AMC Networks come at a time when several media companies, including Amazon and Facebook-parent Meta Platforms, are making deep cuts to their employee base to navigate a potential downturn in the economy, the Daily Mail noted. Earlier this week, BuzzFeed announced it would be axing 12% of its workforce. The Daily Fetched reported the outlet faced a brutal ad-spending pullback amid an ongoing economic downturn. Buzzfeed staffers were notified by email Tuesday that they were losing their jobs. CEO Jonah Peretti wrote in a memo to employees: “In order for BuzzFeed to weather an economic downturn that I believe will extend well into 2023, we must adapt, invest in our strategy to serve our audience best, and readjust our cost structure.” NBC Universal also announced it was laying off staff, with cuts expected mainly in broadcast and cable TV groups. The headcount reduction is set for 2023 to hit budget targets. NPR announced it was having a near hiring freeze and budget cuts in anticipation of a $20 million shortfall in financial sponsorships this fiscal year. Meanwhile, the Washington Post ended its Sunday magazine and also eliminated positions. The Post’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, announced the outlet would end in its current form after printing on Dec. 25. Gannett, America’s largest newspaper publisher, also announced it would be six percent of its staffers as the company struggles financially. Americans trust in media is at record low amid a huge public narrative shift. As Gallup reported: At 34%, Americans’ trust in the mass media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly” is essentially unchanged from last year and just two points higher than the lowest that Gallup has recorded, in 2016 during the presidential campaign. Just 7% of Americans have “a great deal” of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have “a fair amount.” Meanwhile, 28% of U.S. adults say they do not have very much confidence and 38% have none at all in newspapers, TV and radio. Notably, this is the first time that the percentage of Americans with no trust at all in the media is higher than the percentage with a great deal or a fair amount combined.

In our first TBOY interview, we chat with the Founder and CEO of Buzzfeed, Jonah Peretti. Buzzfeed was the first media company built on virality, harnessing the power of the internet to scale humor, joy, news… and a listicle on which Disney princess you are. But before Buzzfeed went public for $1.5B in 2021, Buzzfeed really began when Jonah was a student and turned a sneaker email with Nike into the 1st viral sensation. So we're whipping up the Takeaways with Jonah on why something goes viral, what it says about our own psychology, the meaning of humor, Millennials vs Gen Z, what would surprise us about Buzzfeed, how the media industry is like a musical concert — and how he'd host a dinner sitting between Mark Zuckerberg and Rupert Murdoch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Victoria, Manoel and Thomas are going to talk about how capitalism shapes our identities, different aesthetics and Jonah Peretti.

This week we hear from The Hustle's Principle Reporter and Sunday Editor Zachary Crockett. He talks about his career path working across radio, newsletters, journalism and data, how he makes must-read long-form Sunday issues for The Hustle's business audience, and launching a daily podcast. He also discusses the skills young writers need today, and whether he thinks we've reached peak newsletter. In the news roundup the team discusses the news that BuzzFeed investors are pushing Jonah Peretti to shutter the award-winning but loss-making BuzzFeed News. We ask if the investors are missing the appeal to advertisers, lament the loss of longform investigative work, and ask if this is the nail in the coffin for digital news pureplays (no). In the news roundup we look at why journalists should aim to be their own brands, why Future PLC has acquired two social media companies, and discuss the news that Michael Grade is set to be the new chair of Ofcom. Peter couldn't get his mic to work for 20 minutes before we started recording, if you're wondering.

SPAC December 6th at $10 a share Currently at $5.22, as low as $3.88 Market cap of 697 million Valuation of 1.5 Billion in 2015 Layoffs in 2017, 2019 Net Income = 41.6 million EBITDA = 34.2 million (loss) income from operations = (25) million   Several large shareholders have urged BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti to shut down the entire news operation   BuzzFeed News, which is part of its content division, has about 100 employees and loses roughly $10 million a year   One shareholder told CNBC shutting down the newsroom could add up to $300 million of market capitalization to the struggling stock.   The company has offered voluntary buyouts to fewer than 30 employees, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the decision is private. The buyout is only available to reporters and editors who cover investigations, inequality, politics or science and have worked for the company for more than a year.   “Though BuzzFeed is a profitable company, we don't have the resources to support another two years of losses,” Peretti said at the time. “The most responsible thing we can do is to manage our costs and ensure BuzzFeed — and HuffPost — are set up to prosper long-term. That's why we've made the difficult decision to restructure HuffPost to reach profitability more quickly. Our goal is for HuffPost to break even this year.”   Time spent on BuzzFeed properties (on both owned-and-operated and third-party platforms) declined 4% to 186 million hours in Q4, driven by a decline in time spent on Facebook   July 23, 2019 - In a mission statement presented to Buzzfeed News Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith back in February, employees stated that “Our staff is uniting to demand a contract that guarantees paid time off is actually paid. We demand an agreement that requires due process for termination, a diverse newsroom, reasonable severance amid layoffs, a competitive 401(k), rights to our creative works, and affordable health insurance. We believe it's urgent that our management address unfair pay disparities. We also believe that employees on contract — permalancers, who are paid through a third party but are functionally members of our team — deserve the same treatment.” “It has been our members' determination that has finally secured recognition,”   Final Thoughts; Is an industry as successful as you think? Are you fighting over profit or investment? Do your employees have a business culture?   Further Reading: https://investors.buzzfeed.com/news-releases/news-release-details/buzzfeed-inc-announces-full-year-2021-and-fourth-quarter https://www.nyguild.org/post/buzzfeed-news-voluntarily-recognizes-buzzfeed-news-union https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/22/buzzfeed-investors-have-pushed-ceo-jonah-peretti-to-shut-down-newsroom.html

The Liberal Menace Billy Sunshine is in to discuss how Ketanji Brown Jackson says Roe v Wade ‘the settled law of the supreme court'. // KIRO Nights own Tarik Ansari swings by to chat with Jack about Lia Thomas &  The NCAA Swimming Championship. // BuzzFeed investors have pushed CEO Jonah Peretti to shut down entire newsroom.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paris Marx is joined by Ryan Broderick and Hussein Kesvani to discuss how war gets filtered through social media and the content economy, and what that means for how we make sense of it.Ryan Broderick writes the Garbage Day newsletter and hosts Content Mines. Hussein Kesvani is a writer and the co-host of Trashfuture and Ten Thousand Posts. Follow Ryan on Twitter at @broderick and Hussein at @HKesvani.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:Ryan has written two issues of Garbage Day trying to make sense of what's happening in the war.Hussein wrote a very good tweet.Sam Biddle wrote about how Facebook is allowing users to praise the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.Taylor Lorenz wrote about Instagram meme pages capitalizing on the conflict.Journalists have been saying some pretty racist things about why the war in Ukraine is different than those in the Middle East.Chris Stokel-Walker wrote about how TikTok is designed for war.Jonah Peretti wrote an article called “Capitalism and Schizophrenia.”NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel wondered aloud on Twitter whether NATO should start World War III.Hillary Clinton neglected the consequences of the US arming Afghan “insurgents” against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.The media isn't applying the right level of scrutiny to Ukrainian war stories, like Snake Island.Russia's invasion of Ukraine could have consequences for semiconductors.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

At least 17 states have detected the omicron coronavirus variant and that number is expected to rise according to the CDC. Former FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb and CNBC's Meg Tirrell report on the spread and severity of the omicron variant. Buzzfeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti discusses the digital media company's debut as a public company through a SPAC merger, after an unusually high number of investor redemptions. Peretti also breaks down the company's planned path to profitability and its valuation. Bitcoin is trading under $49,000 after a terrible weekend for the world's biggest cryptocurrency. Bitcoin tumbled more than 17% from Friday night into Saturday, hitting a low near $43,000, before stabilizing yesterday. Plus, Joe's favorite fast food – by coast - and Andrew's meditation techniques.In this episode:Scott Gottlieb, @ScottGottliebMDJonah Peretti, @perettiMeg Tirrell, @megtirrellLeslie Picker, @LesliePickerJoe Kernen, @JoeSquawkBecky Quick, @BeckyQuickAndrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkinKatie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

BuzzFeed used to be an internet experiment. Now it's a publicly-traded company that expects more than $500 million in revenue this year. CEO Jonah Peretti talks to Recode's Peter Kafka about the route his company took to the NASDAQ; why he's not worried about investors who bailed on the company; and the state of labor negotiations with the BuzzFeed News union. Featuring: Jonah Peretti (@peretti), CEO of BuzzFeed Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Épisode 652 : Après le scandale Cambridge Analytica, le groupe Facebook est frappé par un nouveau scandale, Les Facebook Files. Une enquête de longue haleine du Wall Street journal a démontré les failles de la plateforme et exposé la pleine conscience de ses dirigeants.Un travail colossal, chaque fichier est un article très complet d'une trentaine de minutes de lecture. Les fichiers sont aussi adaptés en podcast.Facebook Inc. sait, dans les moindres détails, que ses plateformes sont criblées de défauts qui causent des dommages, souvent d'une manière que seule l'entreprise comprend parfaitement. C'est la conclusion centrale d'une série du Wall Street Journal, basée sur un examen des documents internes de Facebook, y compris des rapports de recherche, des discussions en ligne avec les employés et des ébauches de présentations à la haute direction.À maintes reprises, montrent les documents, les chercheurs de Facebook ont identifié les effets néfastes de la plate-forme. À maintes reprises, malgré les audiences du Congrès, ses propres engagements et de nombreux exposés médiatiques, la société ne les a pas corrigés. Les documents offrent peut-être l'image la plus claire à ce jour de l'étendue de la connaissance des problèmes de Facebook au sein de l'entreprise, jusqu'au directeur général lui-même.Dossier 1 - Les X-Check, au delà du réelLes groupe Facebook clame depuis plusieurs mois que ses règles s'appliquent à tous mais les documents de l'enquête révèlent une « élite secrète » qui est exemptée de contrôles.On le rappelle, Zuck avait déclaré vouloir mettre les personnes comme ti et moi et les hommes politiques sur un pied d'égalité.Le programme, connu sous le nom de « contrôle croisé » ou « XCheck », était conçu comme une mesure de contrôle de la qualité pour les comptes de grande envergure. Aujourd'hui, il protège des millions de VIP de l'application normale de l'entreprise, selon les documents.Il y a quelques mois, Markito annonçais même vouloir emboiter le pas à Twitter quand aux droits qui devraient être accordés aux hommes politiques sur sa plateforme.Les documents fournis dans l'enquête pour le Dossier n°1 montrent que Facebook connaît les faiblesses de sa plateforme et n'a pas la volonté OU la capacité de les corriger.Ils comprennent des rapports de recherche, des discussions en ligne avec les employés et des ébauches de présentations à la haute direction, y compris à Marc. Ils ne sont pas le résultat d'un ras le bol des employés, mais plutôt le travail d'équipes qui sont là pour étudier la plateforme et l'améliorer.Trump avait déjà dévoilé les X-check. De Trump à Neimar à Doug the pugL'année dernière, XCheck a permis aux publications qui enfreignaient ses règles d'être vues au moins 16,4 milliards de fois, avant d'être supprimées plus tard, selon un résumé du programme fin décembre.Dossier 2 - Le bien être des adolescents largement sous estiméLes propres recherches internes de Facebook démontrent qu'instagram est toxique pour la santé mentale de nombreuses adolescentes mais le minimise en public.Il y a environ un an, l'adolescente Anastasia Vlasova commençait à consulter un thérapeute. Elle avait développé un trouble de l'alimentation et avait une idée claire de ce qui l'avait conduit : son passage sur Instagram.Elle rejoint la plate-forme à 13 ans et a finalement passé trois heures par jour à être fascinée par la vie et le corps apparemment parfaits des influenceurs du fitness qui ont posté sur l'application.À cette époque, des chercheurs d'Instagram étudiaient ce type d'expérience et se demandaient si cela faisait partie d'un phénomène plus large. Leurs conclusions ont confirmé de sérieux problèmes.Au cours du temps, plusieurs enquêtes interne ont démontré que je cite :« 32% des adolescentes ont déclaré que lorsqu'elles se sentaient mal dans leur corps, Instagram les faisait se sentir pire" et « Les comparaisons sur Instagram peuvent changer la façon dont les jeunes femmes se voient et se décrivent. »« Nous aggravons les problèmes d'image corporelle pour une adolescente sur trois »"Les adolescents blâment Instagram pour l'augmentation du taux d'anxiété et de dépression"Parmi les adolescents qui ont signalé des pensées suicidaires, 13% des utilisateurs britanniques et 6% des utilisateurs américains ont attribué leur désir de se suicider à Instagram, a montré une présentation.En interne, les hauts responsables font des déclarations inverses :"La recherche que nous avons vue est que l'utilisation d'applications sociales pour se connecter avec d'autres personnes peut avoir des avantages positifs pour la santé mentale", a déclaré le PDG Mark Zuckerberg lors d'une audience au Congrès en mars 2021, interrogé sur les enfants et la santé mentale.En mai, le responsable d'Instagram, Adam Mosseri, a déclaré aux journalistes que les recherches qu'il avait vues suggèrent que les effets de l'application sur le bien-être des adolescents sont probablement "assez faibles".Dossier 3 - En voulant faire mieux, ils ont fait pireFacebook a essayé de faire de sa plate-forme un endroit plus sain. Il est devenu plus en colère à la place.En 2018, Facebook apportait des changements a son algorithme pour améliorer sa plate-forme et corriger le déclin de l'engagement des utilisateurs. M. Zuckerberg a déclaré que son objectif était de renforcer les liens entre les utilisateurs et d'améliorer leur bien-être en favorisant les interactions entre amis et famille. Aujourd'hui, des documents internes, montrent que les membres du personnel ont averti que le changement avait l'effet inverse. En 2018, Jonah Peretti, directeur général de BuzzFeed écrivait à Facebook pour souligner les performances étonnamment hautes d'un article plutôt controverse «  "21 choses que presque tous les Blancs ont tort de dire ».En interne, les chercheurs ont découvert que les éditeurs et les partis politiques réorientaient leurs publications vers l'indignation et le sensationnalisme. Cette tactique a produit des niveaux élevés de commentaires et de réactions qui se sont traduits par un succès sur Facebook.Je cite « "Notre approche a eu des effets secondaires malsains sur d'importantes tranches de contenu public, telles que la politique et les actualités » On découvre même dans une petite animation que le like marque moins de points que les autres réactions sur l'algorithme (1 point pour un like, 5 points pour les autres)Dossier 4 - Des Cartels et du traffic d'êtres humains sur FacebookLes employés de Facebook signalent les cartels de la drogue et les trafiquants d'êtres humains. La réponse de la société est faible, selon les documents.Des dizaines de documents examinés dans l'enquête montrent que des employés sonnent l'alarme sur la façon dont ses plateformes sont utilisées dans les pays en développement,au Moyen-Orient des trafiquants d'êtres humains utilisaient le site pour attirer les femmes dans des situations d'emploi abusives. En Éthiopie des groupes armés utilisaient le site pour inciter à la violence contre les minorités ethniques.Au Mexique, un cartel de la drogue mexicain utilisait Facebook pour recruter, former et payer des tueurs à gages.L'un des problèmes : Dans certains pays où Facebook opère, il y a peu ou pas de personnes qui parlent les dialectes nécessaires pour identifier les utilisations dangereuses ou criminelles de la plate-forme, montrent les documents.En 2020, les employés et les sous-traitants de Facebook ont passé plus de 3,2 millions d'heures à rechercher et à étiqueter ou, dans certains cas, à retirer des informations que l'entreprise a conclues comme fausses ou trompeuses, selon les documents. Seulement 13 % de ces heures ont été consacrées à du contenu provenant de l'extérieur des États-Unis.L'Inde compte plus de 300 millions d'utilisateurs de Facebook , le plus grand nombre de tous les pays. Les chercheurs de l'entreprise en 2019 ont créé un compte de test en tant qu'utilisatrice indienne et ont déclaré avoir rencontré un "cauchemar" en suivant simplement les pages et les groupes recommandés par les algorithmes de Facebook.Dossier 4.5 - Facebook fait de l'auto-promotion pour améliorer son image en ligneDossier 5 - Comment Facebook a entravé la tentative de Mark Zuckerberg de faire vacciner l' AmériqueFacebook a mis tout son poids dans la promotion des vaccins Covid-19 – « une priorité absolue de l'entreprise », a déclaré une note de service – dans une démonstration de la foi de M. Zuckerberg que sa plateforme est une force pour le bien social dans le monde.Cela a fini par montrer le fossé entre ses aspirations et la réalité de la plus grande plateforme sociale du monde. Les militants ont inondé le réseau de ce que Facebook appelle du contenu « obstacle à la vaccination », selon les notes de service internes. Ils ont utilisé les propres outils de Facebook pour semer le doute sur la gravité de la menace de pandémie et la sécurité de l'arme principale des autorités pour la combattre. Les problèmes de Covid-19 montrent clairement une réalité: même lorsque Markito s'est fixé un objectif, il ne peut pas diriger diriger sa plate-forme comme il le souhaite. Un porte-parole de Facebook a déclaré dans un communiqué que les données montraient une hésitation vis-à-vis des vaccins aux États-Unis. . .Le Super Daily est le podcast quotidien sur les réseaux sociaux. 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Millennials and Gen-Z want different experiences, different content, different opportunities. But catering to those distinct needs wasn't enough, says BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti; the digital-media outfit also needed to create a flywheel for value. When the pandemic trimmed tens of millions in revenue, Peretti cut back on costs – but kept the flywheel spinning. By the end of 2020 his team had engineered a rebound, finishing the year with record profitability. Now, the company has announced plans to go public via SPAC at a $1.5 billion valuation. With the acquisitions of HuffPost and Complex Networks, Peretti has shown that his ambitions are just beginning.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Millennials and Gen Z want different experiences, different content, different opportunities. But catering to those distinct needs wasn't enough, says BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti; the digital-media outfit also needed to create a flywheel for value. When the pandemic trimmed tens of millions in revenue, Peretti cut back on costs – but kept the flywheel spinning. By the end of 2020 his team had engineered a rebound, finishing the year with record profitability. Now, the company has announced plans to go public via SPAC at a $1.5 billion valuation. With the acquisitions of HuffPost and Complex Networks, Peretti has shown that his ambitions are just beginning.Read a transcript of this interview at: mastersofscale.comSubscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter at http://eepurl.com/dlirtXSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The wave of media consolidation is cresting again. The latest example is BuzzFeed's acquisition of Complex Networks. BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti and Complex Networks CEO Rich Antoniello joined the Digiday Podcast to talk about the deal. The conversation with Peretti and Antoniello ranged from how Complex Networks will fit inside BuzzFeed to how BuzzFeed's brands could cross over into Complex's properties like ComplexCon and vice versa. What came through in the interview is how the two executives see their respective companies as being in a better position together rather than going it alone in an industry dominated by giant tech platforms and other major media companies that continue to merge. “In this day and age, how difficult it is being an independent publisher, I think it's only gotten more and more difficult and the pandemic heightened that,” Antoniello said. Becoming a media conglomerate comes with complexities, though. “You can tell in companies that merge everything together and have some chief content officer who makes every piece of content the same -- I mean, it just doesn't work,” said Peretti. “You need editorial independence and that flows through even to the business and to the partnerships you do and brand licensing deals and native advertising and branded content.”

BuzzFeed might become the first of its generation of digital media upstarts to go public. How is CEO Jonah Peretti trying to grow the company? Cory talks to The Information's Jessica Toonkel and Sahil Patel about Peretti's consolidation strategy. Plus, reporter Paris Martineau discusses the implications of Amazon's growing air cargo fleet.

Resolutions can be broken – but lessons are always there to relearn. We know a new year usually comes with some New Year’s resolutions but if 2021 is even half as unpredictable as 2020, you can expect any resolutions to fall quickly by the wayside. So what you're about to hear is a special episode of Masters of Scale, one that we hope will serve as a sort of primer for the new year, full of lessons learned from the sometimes devastating – often inspiring – year we just put behind us. These lessons come from a range of guests we've spoken to in a time of incredible change. Some are stories about doing everything right – and still ending up in crisis. Others are about overcoming the odds with grit, heart, and compassion. Featuring: Mary Barra, Jeff Winer, Jonah Peretti, Rashad Robinson, Colleen DeCourcy, Susan Wojcicki, and more.

Dan Oshinsky was the Director of Newsletters at both Buzzfeed and The New Yorker. Today he runs his own email consultancy called Inbox Collective. Dan has seen newsletters from the early days, and has been instrumental in developing the newsletter strategy for some of the largest publications around. In this fantastic interview, Dan shares takeaways for large newsletters and indie creators alike. He shares how his newsletter led to the Buzzfeed job, and how, once there, he discovered the building blocks that make newsletters resonate with their audience (spoiler: cats ARE involved).Dan also warns us of the danger of obsessing over open rates (or any “silver bullet” metric), and how Job #1 for your newsletter is to earn its place in people's inboxes.After talking about the importance of carefully defining your newsletter's audience, Dan answers these burning questions: Can I really build a business around an email newsletter? Is email going away? Tune in for the answers, and so much more!Links & Resources Buzzfeed Newsletters The New Yorker Newsletters The Wall Street Journal Newsletters Dan Oshinsky's Links Dan's Website: danoshinsky.com LinkedIn: Dan Oshinsky Twitter: @danoshinsky Inbox Collective - Together, let's make better newsletters. Sign up for Not a Newsletter Episode TranscriptDan: [00:00:00] It sounds kind of corny, but you kind of have to have a mission. When you start with the newsletter you have to have, this is the thing that I'm doing for this audience.This is why I think I can be useful and how I can be helpful. And if I do a good job, I build that loyalty. I build the audience in the long run. there's going to be a return on that investment. Nathan: [00:00:24] In this episode, I talked to Dan Oshinsky, who was the director of newsletters at Buzzfeed, and then the same job at The New Yorker. And now he runs his own email consultancy called Inbox Collective, and Dan has seen newsletters from the early days. He's seen multiple waves of newsletters become popular.And then of course he's run, some of the largest publications around. So it's a fantastic interview. He has a lot of takeaways that are good for, you know, large newsletters and indie creators alike. So I'm excited to dive in. All right, Dan, thanks for joining me today.Dan: [00:01:00] Thanks for having me.Nathan: [00:01:01] So let's, let's dive right in. You've got an interesting background in that we have all of these newsletter creators who. Come into it from, you know, any number of things, but, but they're often indie creators where they're brand new to the space, you know, or they're growing up through one path and you've taken a different path of building newsletters at Buzzfeed than The New Yorker.And now you've got a bit more of the indie path as you're doing the consulting and everything else, but I'd love to just take us back to when you first started to get into running newsletters at Buzzfeed and what, what started that path?Dan: [00:01:36] So it actually started a little before Buzzfeed. The first newsletter that I really launched was a newsletter called Tools for Reporters. It launched in 2012 and it was.I've been doing it a little while. It was Tools for Reporters is exactly what you think it was. It was a newsletter where we share tools that reporters could use.It's actually still going. I went to the university of Missouri journalism school and some Mizzou J school grads have picked up that mantle and run with it. And it's all it just hit earlier this year. Something like 200 additions of this thing has been going for a long, long time. despite my efforts over the years to, to accidentally kill it with, you know, having a job and having other things to do, it turns out when you get hired at Buzzfeed and you have a thousand things to do the like side newsletter, you're working on becomes a little less of a priority, but it's my entire newsletter story really starts with this thing Tools for Reporters.I was playing with lots of different types of tools. And it had stuff that I wanted to share figured a newsletter would be a good place to share it. set up a fairly basic, you know, at the time this was MailChimp. I went to MailChimp, set up a newsletter, pretty straightforward to get something off the ground.And in a couple of, you know, first couple of weeks, I got to a place where there were a few hundred subscribers. And for me, the game changer with email was I had, I don't know how many Twitter followers or Facebook, you know, Followers or friends I had at the time, but I had more of those than I did newsletter subscribers.But if I put something out into the world on Facebook, or I sent out a tweet, nothing would happen, literally nothing would happen. I'd say here's this exciting new thing I'm working on and nothing would happen. And then I would email a few hundred people and say Hey, here's this thing I've been working on.And I would get Requests from people that, you know we want you to come in and sit down with us and have coffee, job interviews, the Buzzfeed job partially came at a result of at, or out of me working on Tools for Reporters. They. You know, when I started talking with them, I shared with them my newsletter and they're like, this is really good.We like this. We can do more stuff like this. It was amazing to me how much more impact email had. the conversations I had out of email was really the exciting part because it wasn't just me broadcasting, whatever news right out into the world but Putting stuff out there and then people writing back and saying I actually have some more stuff I want to talk to you about this, or I want to go deeper on that subject.Or how do you feel about this? I really got to build relationships with my readers and that always struck me as something that was really, really powerful, that set email apart. when I got to Buzzfeed, our, our thinking was twofold. One is we were going to have a chance to build an audience and really have ownership of that audience.of the relationship with them it wasn't something where. Social media giant could just say one day, you know, We know you have X number of people who follow you on this channel, but, we've made some changes to the algorithm and you no longer have access to that audience. You know, we really have the ability to build relationships through email, which was exciting, but the other thing was the potential for conversations, the potential to ask people questions, to get their feedback and to really get to know our readers.That was really, really exciting and something we knew there was huge potential for Nathan: [00:04:57] Yeah, that's big. And then, I mean, that's the exact same experience that I had earlier with. Now of like, I actually expected social channels to outperform email, but people were like, you should have an email list. And I was like, okay, sure. You know, if you say so, I'll listen to smart people and then you actually do it.And you're like, Whoa, this is different, you know, 800 people on an email list is, you know, I would take that over like 5,000 people on a Twitter following. You're definitely on Facebook. And so that blew me away from the beginning. SoDan: [00:05:27] There's also the other thing too, for you, and I'm sure it was, he was definitely for me. And I imagine for you too, like, because it wasn't something that you were hearing from a lot of other sources you weren't, you know, like in the news world, when I got started at Buzzfeed, I started going around trying to find, I was like, Oh, I'll, I'll talk to the people who have my job at.The New York times, the Washington post, all these other places. Like I'll talk to them like these are smart people. I'm sure they've already figured out email. Like I'll learn from them, I'll steal all of their good ideas and then I'll bring it back to Buzzfeed. And then I found out those people didn't exist.Like those jobs didn't exist in other places. And. Email. My theory is always out. I'm curious what you think. Like my theory has always been just because everyone uses email all the time. People think they know a lot about it. They just assume like, Oh, I, I send emails all the time. Like we don't need to have teams thinking about email.Like, what does email for in a newsroom 10 years ago is what does email for? Here's an, arguous a reverse Chron RSS feed of our stories. We'll just send it out to people or many times a day and they'll click on whatever. And. That's the end of the story. And so I started getting into it at Buzzfeed was like, all right, let's talk to the smart people who are already doing this.And it's like, Oh, well, there aren't really that many orgs that even do this. And nobody really had my job. it's exciting to see how much it's changed, but it does, whether it's going to be a Buzzfeed, the work you've done through convert kit, you discover that it just takes a certain amount of momentum of seeing like, Really smart people over and over and over again, telling you like this works, this works really well for people like, huh?I wonder if that email thing works.Nathan: [00:07:11] Right. Yeah. So what was your title at, at Buzzfeed?Dan: [00:07:15] When I started, I was newsletter editor, which was a title that, we made up because everyone at Buzzfeed who wasn't me was associate editor pretty much aside from a writer, chief, like everyone was associated. And I was like, well, I'm an associate editor, I'm the newsletter editor. I'm sure that's my title.And then at some point the team grew and then I hired a newsletter editor and they're like, well, you can't be this anymore because that title is taken. And Busby, wasn't the kind of place where you become like the vice president of newsletters. So it's like director of newsletters was the next title up.Then I, when I got hired at The New Yorker, the title just carried over. It's like, we don't really know what the title is. Director seems nice. Like, sure. That's fine. I don't, I don't at no point throughout the process was the title a. Important thing for him to work at places like those. I remember telling my boss that new Yorker is like, you can call me whatever you want.I don't care. You're telling me I get to work at The New Yorker, but these smart people and help make a difference. Call me whatever does not matter to me.Nathan: [00:08:13] Yeah, that makes sense. So you're bringing up a point about, you know, that, that title or really that job not existing. And I think that's, that's fascinating cause even, you know, people just weren't using email. I mean, they were, but I think about when I was getting started in all of this in 2011, 2012, kind of around the same time, that you were diving in on it.People were using email, but like 5,000 subscribers was a, was a big email list. Like I remember following, you know, bloggers I followed would be like, Chris Guillebeau or a, Liam about to, from Zen habits. And I remember thinking back to that and like, I think they were like 8,000 email subscribers, 10,000, like, and those are the people that I thought of as being really big in the indie space.And now of course, like there's plenty of people with millions of subscribers and. and so much from there, but, but it's fascinating how even seven, eight years ago, you know, like you said, these job titles didn't exist. It wasn't a, Oh, here are all these best practices. Let me go copy them and learn from them and everything else.So what were some of the things that you learned in, you know, maybe that first time at Buzzfeed running newsletters of like, okay, this is what works, this is what doesn't.Dan: [00:09:29] Well, I'll tell you this. My first day when I showed up and our chief technology officer showed me to my desk and sat me down and in a very like, He meant it in a very colloquial way. It's like, do you know what you're supposed to be doing? And he mentioned it just like, you know, you're supposed to be doing, I need to go back to my job.I have other things to do, but I took it into like, do you know what you're supposed to be doing? I kind of hope when I showed up, they would have like the magic playbook, you know, Jonah Peretti would have like labeled out, like you do this and you do this and you do this. Then you have a job. everyone loves you.And it's like, that's like, no, I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing because I was scary. But that first year we learned. So much about email. So the big things that first year were just figuring out what an email was supposed to look or sound like from Buzzfeed. Where are we allowed to have personality, your voice?Where did curation fit in at the time in 2012? You know, even a publication like the New York times, their daily newsletter was not a personal lot. Like today. Even Leonhard personalized, curated, they're asking questions. We're starting a conversation 2012. It was just, here's a list of the stories that are most recent on our website.As of 6:00 AM. When this email goes out with no thought as to what the right subject line or which stories need to lead, there was no curation aspect. So all of that for us was like, what does curation look like for a newsletter like ours supposed to be, which was trying to do a combination of. News and humor and culture and lifestyle, like what even goes into a Buzzfeedy kind of email.So a lot of that first year was figuring out what is the voice sound like? How far can we push different sorts of ideas or products? I mean, I remember my first day I pitched three newsletters. The newsletter is for a daily newsletter, a long form newsletter, because we were doing a lot of kind of magazine style, long form reporting, and then a newsletter that I called this week in cats, and everyone laughed about it.But this weekend cats ended up being a really successful newsletter because among the lessons we learned at Buzzfeed were well, there were really four building blocks for us that made a great newsletter. 1 Newsletters were either about identity, who you are and what you care about. And. being a cat person it turns out is a pretty significant identity. Our cat people love cats. And then the dog people later on got mad at us because they thought we were biased towards the cat people. So we had this week in cats and then we had dog dang, which was also a great newsletter. identity was a big thing. 2 Service was a really big thing.The stuff people wanted more of, I want healthy recipes to cook for my family. I want ideas because I'm a parent, I'm trying to figure out. How would I entertain my kids? I'm trying to figure out how to do more of the stuff I want to do Buzzfeed Can you help me do that? 3 There was stuff that was more utility based, and these are newsletters around, your job around your community, around the news.I need to know what's happening today. So I can be informed that a lot of local news organizations do this now, you know, I need to know what the weather's going to be. I need to know what's happening in my community or. if you're, you know, someone like me, I still do a lot of my work in the journalism space.Art. I need to subscribe to newsletters around journalism and news. So I'm informed as to what else is happening out there. those utility newsletters do really well. 4 And then personalization. That was a really big thing for us. How can we add and utilize our unique personalities, the voices you could only get from Buzzfeed and bring them into a newsletter that people were really going to connect with and get excited to hear from.those four building blocks that really shaped a lot of the products, but that came through through testing through really a lot of different launches. Some that worked. Some that didn't some that people thought were jokes like this week in cats, or, you know, I think we have the w the Internet's first Royal baby newsletter when George was born at that kid is now like 37 years old or whatever.It was a million years ago that happened. but you know, we launched these different products, some of which people are like Buzzfeed, but then it turned out like, Oh, people really want this, like, We're in the business of giving people stuff they want, that they care about. They're passionate about. Yeah.Let's launch the Royal baby newsletter, nothing wrong with that. No reason why we can't have a news newsletter that caters to a serious news clientele, a politics newsletter, and yeah. A newsletter where where we'll tell you when you know, the Royal baby is born. These can all exist under one roof.Nathan: [00:13:53] Yeah. So let's take a newsletter like this. We can Katz, what does, you know, this is crazy idea that you throw out there and everyone's like, Oh, ha ha. We've got, you know, it's sort of like two truths and a lie where you've got two pitches that we're suppose to take seriously. And then this third one that like, we're supposed to ignore and laugh at.Like, you know, and you're like, no, no, no, they're all.Dan: [00:14:11] They're all serious. We're going to do all of them one day.Nathan: [00:14:14] But if we have to only do one, it's the cat newsletter. So you choose, So in that, right. How do you measure success? What does, or what does success look like? is it just that you're getting X number of subscribers? Is that like the, the growth rate, the open, what are you looking for? Particularly on the cat newsletter?Dan: [00:14:34] I got really lucky my first year at Buzzfeed in that I reported directly to Dao Nguyen who's Now the publisher of Buzzfeed. One of the smartest people in media Dao knows everything about everything. And Dao was somebody who really impressed upon me there wasn't just a single bullet metric. It wasn't just like the open rate is the end-all and be-all If the open rates are good, we have a good newsletter. Or if we have a lot of subscribers, this is a good newsletter. We thought about growth. We thought about engagement opens, click to open rate. We thought a lot about, you know, Metrics like clicks per thousand if if the newsletter is going to grow.How many, you know, how much traffic does this newsletter drive for every thousand readers? so we could project, if this newsletter goes from 1000 readers to 10,000 to 100,000 how much traffic do we think this might drive? We thought about metrics like time on site. You know, we really utilize Google analytics.If someone's clicking through on one of those long form stories to a Buzzfeed article, for instance, well, Those articles are going to take you 10, 15, 20 minutes to read. How long do they actually spend with these? Are they just clicking or do they spend time? there? And we would put together a couple different types of metrics to measure success over time.That's changed for me now, I think a lot more about loyalty and habit. So how often do people, especially for something like a daily newsletter, how often do people turn to this newsletter day in and day out to read and turn to us for. Know, for, for their news habits. we look a lot more now it's stuff like onboarding and automation.How are we utilizing that to drive engagement that we want, but it's a variety of different metrics across, you know, engagement, habit, loyalty, growth. certainly for a lot of organizations or individuals too, you're looking at revenue numbers is this newsletter driving the end result that I want in terms of revenue for my business, all of these together, give you kind of a full picture of success.What I find is the people who just pick oneif the only thing you care about is open rate. You're going to do anything to get the open rate up. I mean, if the best example I can tell you is sign up for any super PAC's emails and see the emails they send you. I got one the other day, it was a call to action to support, a a political cause the subject line was, and the, the, the, the sent-from name and the subject line was a flight confirmation.It was like, Flight confirmation number 6247 And it was like your flight's been booked. I was like, what is this? And then I clicked and it turned out it was an ad telling me how I need to donate to some political cause it's like, yeah. When the only thing you care about is opens and just getting people to like getting your message in front, you will do some weird stuff to get people to open your emails.You've You've got to have a bunch of different metrics in play.Nathan: [00:17:25] Yeah, that makes sense. And, well, I mean, first the thing is with any political donation, your email address then suddenly gets like passed on to like 50 organizations. And you're like, it's so frustrating, butDan: [00:17:38] It's it's the worst part about all there's many worst parts about politics in 2020, but one of them is you like a candidate. You give them $10. Cause you think it's, you know, I really believe in this person. And then you find out that until the end of time, you will be getting emails from other candidates asking you for money because that $10 donation means that you are suddenly Scrooge McDuck with an unlimited amount of money to give to all political candidates who come asking.Nathan: [00:18:05] Yes, but in that you see so many of these subject lines, especially cause I think, well, you touched on loyalty, right? And that being a metric that, if you had open rate, balanced by loyalty as a counterbalancing metric, then you're not going to push subject lines in a way that, are click baity or spammy or anything like that because you know, that's going to hurt her loyalty.But in this case where the email address was just purchased or passed on, you know, like your political party was just like, Hey, by the way, they had made a donation. So now his email address is fair game for any of you. then there's no thought to loyalty because you don't have any loyalty to the super pack or whoever else.And so then of course, they're just pushing that. So that's,Dan: [00:18:50] And at the, at the end of the day, at the end of the night, too, where people re anyone who's working on an email needs to think about. If there's one thing I've learned over the years with email it's that email is not just a broadcast tool. It is a relationship tool. if you think about email as a relationship tool, as a conversation and of the inbox as this really personal space, this is their space.I tell a lot of my clients, I think of it as like a living room, like the client. So our reader is letting you in and saying, I'm going to let in my family and my friends and some of my colleagues and maybe you, and you've got to prove your worth to earn your place in this space. Like, all right. So what are you going to do?You're going to start a conversation. You're going to ask questions. You're going to seek to learn about them. You're going to try to make sure your newsletters feel personal and are relevant to them. You're going to do a lot because at the end of the day, when you think about email as a relationship tool, Well relationships, are a long-term kind of play.Nobody thinks about how do I develop a relationship for today and tomorrow. And that's the end of it. You think about how do I, you know, I'm making a new friend, I want to make a friend and I want to keep this friend for a long, long time. I want them to be someone in my life for a long time. You make a set of decisions that's best to based on what's best for the Both of you and email is the same way. The more you think about the relationship, the more you think about the conversations you want to have. the more you think long term, you know, it's not just about getting an email address today and how can I sell something as quickly as possible? How can I get this person to know me, understand me how can I learn from them?How can I listen to them, establish trust, and then in the long run, once I've done that, we can do some pretty cool stuff together. When you think about the habit of loyalty in the relationship, it totally changes the way. You think about email and the types of things you would send to them, the things you want to do with them, what you even build in terms of your email product, all that stuff is great stuff that happens when you shift the mindset from broadcast broadcast, push, push, push to no, this is a conversation. Let's start talking.Nathan: [00:20:54] What's an example that comes to mind from your career. you know, or maybe even from a client that you're working with now where that relationship really paid off, or, you know, you're talking about, okay, I'm going to do this in a way that builds long-term loyalty. And that moment where you thought like, Whoa, this is a really loyal audience that we've built.Dan: [00:21:13] So I'll give you the personal example with me. I, when I started this Google doc and. January of 2019, Not a Newsletter. The goal was just when I got started at Buzzfeed, I had always wanted there to be a place that I could go to learn from other smart people. And in the seven years between me starting and when I started me starting at Buzzfeed, and then we started Not a Newsletter.That place never really came up and nobody builds the, the go-to source for, you know, for email conversation, especially for people in news or nonprofits or individuals. There's lots of great. You guys have one of these, but like there's lots of great places you can go. For email conversation of high level and a lot of stuff around marketing, but I found that, especially in the new space, it was just lacking.Like, who am I supposed to go to learn from? So I thought that I might try to step in and, and offer some advice, and be a person that I could share perspectives and learnings from over the years. And then I had this Google doc and just launch it as a Google doc, so I could get out into the world as quickly as possible.And then I had an email alert tied to that. So you could come back for the next one. So people through that, through my onboarding series, through the emails I sent would reach back out. They they'd ask questions. Sure. Feedback. And what started to happen? I mean, this is one I'm still at The New Yorker.What started happening was. People started to ask me like this, we're learning so much about email. We're really excited. We have this budget to work on our email strategy. These next couple of years, we really, really try to figure out who we should be working with, who can like help us figure this stuff out.Who's the person we talk to. And then I would write back like an idiot, like, Oh man, I really wish that person existed. It would be so great. If there was that person who could help you all figure out how to do this stuff, you know, like I have a job I'm working at The New Yorker. I got my hands full. I wish I knew who to refer you to.And then I got so many of these at some point, my wife just told me, it's like, people keep asking you who the person is, your, the person. Oh yeah. It's like, I see. Okay. Now I had to figure out, you know, people who work at it, the people who work at The New Yorker. A great thing about a place like The New Yorker is they always say, there's that old adage.Like you want to work with people who are smarter than you you'll you never want to be the smartest person in the room. There was never any doubt at The New Yorker that I was not the smartest. Like I was always the stupidest person in the room. I was constantly constantly thinking like, I cannot believe how much part of these people are the me, why they let me into this?Why did they let me into the building in the first place? but that means that people from The New Yorker also go on to like big ambitious jobs. They don't usually go to. You know, David Remnick can be like, I'm leaving because I started a Google doc and people now want me to show them how to send better emails.Like that's not a thing that they've ever had to deal with before. but from you really, that was it. That was like, Oh, having, and we'd done this. We'd ask questions of our readers, The New Yorker and gotten great feedback at Buzzfeed. We do these crowdsource posts and get great feedback and have really good conversations.But with Not a Newsletter, the email attached to that, that was the one who was like just by starting a conversation just by being willing to apply to every email that came in. You know, I had a list when I left The New Yorker at the list was about 1500 subscribers. And I knew when I left that I was going to be able to drive enough business from just 1500 subscribers because I was having these conversations because they were telling me.It made it real. In retrospect, it made it fairly easy to figure out what I needed to do to make my business successful because readers were writing and telling me, this is the thing I need help with. This is where I want to spend my money. And then when I would hear five, 10, 12 different organizations tell me we all have the same problem.It's like, well, Good news. I'm setting up a business to solve your problems, and I'm going to make this one of the problems that I can just solve right away. It was great. I made it super easy now, you know, when I work with teams trying to figure out like, who is our audience? How should we market this?Like, well, have you talked to them? Have you surveyed them? Have you listened to them? Because they probably have a good, pretty good idea already of what it is that you do really well. And sure. Especially these big organizations, big brands. We're going to go out and we're going to spend a ton of money on some fancy marketing agency.That's going to come up with a perfect slogan to explain what our product is like. Have you thought first about just serving your audience and hearing from them what it is that you do well, because you might be able to come to that perfect tagline, that explanation without having to spend, you know, five, six, seven figures on a marketing budget that doesn't actually explain what it is you do well in the first place.Nathan: [00:26:06] Yeah. Oh, that makes so much sense. And I mean, I love that you brought up earning a living from a small list because I think people that do think, okay, I have to have 10,000 subscribers active 50,000, and we have tons of examples from ConvertKit. If someone earning a living from. 500 subscribers or 2000 subscribers are all kinds of things in that range.Usually they end up doing consulting, you know, we're selling a higher priced product, you know, because the smaller number of people that you're selling to then the higher price point, if say we're solving for a $80,000 a year salary as our, as our base. you brought up a few things I have on my list here.In my questions, I didn't even write it into a full questions or a full question. It just is Google docs. Question Mark. and it's really not even Google docs. It's a single Google doc. cause as you talked about Not a Newsletter is in fact not a newsletter. It is a Google doc, that you can go in and as you want to read the different issues in it, you just use the outline.On the side to go through. And one of my favorite things about it is the, so it's a, it's a read only a Google doc, right? You're the only one who has right. Access to it. But as you're in there reading that you see like other people popping in and leaving to read it because, you know, I don't know what it is like anonymous wombat shows up to read.And so you can see like, wow, there's eight other people. Reading this at this exact moment, then a couple people drop off and five more people jump on. but so I understand that you've launched it as a Google doc to move quickly and you wanted to get it out there and, you know, speed is an asset, but why is it still a Google doc today?Dan: [00:27:48] So it started as a Google doc, partially because. It was simple to launch. And also I had done other projects. I had this talk that I'd given a few months earlier where I had produced this as a Google slides. And it was actually, it was a list of ways to grow your, your email audience. And I've gotten shared around and people would email me say like, Hey, do you know, we're just getting started or so-and-so newsrooms.How do I grow my email list? And then I would go, and I find that Google slides and share it with them. And there were always like four anonymous wombats who are lurking. It's like, that's weird. This talk that I gave to a hundred people that I never really publicized. Like, why are there always people hanging out in this Google slides, it just stuck with me.And so I launched it that way and now it may just be permanently stuck as a Google doc because it got known as the thing. That's a Google doc. There's a novelty to it. I always tell my news clients. Who will remark on the same thing going there were 17 people reading the Google doc at the same time on a random Tuesday, but.You realize that if you go to your Google analytics, there are literally thousands of people reading your website right now. Why are you impressed by 17 anonymous wombats? But I think there's something about knowing that other, the, the, being able to look and know that other people are looking at this same thing at the same time, there's something to it about knowing there's a collective action there.You're not alone, especially. This year when everyone's isolated, the idea of, especially right after I sent it, when people like there's like 175 people reading this thing right now, I'm like, yeah, the email list is a few thousand people at this point. Like people actually read this thing. I don't can't fully explain why, but people keep listening to me for some reason.And so, yeah, it might just be stuck as a Google doc. I will say. And I'm disappointed to say this, but I'm happy to break the small bit of news here on this podcast. I do think next year there will be an actual website that people can go to, to find some of the resources and links because. It's to me. I started it to be as useful to as many people as possible.And as much as I would love to have it permanently, be like a series of Google docs and slides and this weird little world you have to like keep clicking and navigating to find. I also want to be more useful to a wider audience and it would be nice if. You know, I, an ironic thing about Google docs is they're not actually SEO friendly, despite it all being a Google product, Google doesn't make Google docs, SEO friendly.You can't find it. So if you search for Not a Newsletter, You ended up getting redirected to posts or things, other things that people have written about it to get to it. It's I would like the stuff that I'm doing that I think is getting really useful to a larger audience to reach a larger audience. So I do think there's a world in which at least some of the, Not a Newsletter kind of universe exists on a real website that you can, you know, search for and find, it might happen.I think it's probably stuck as a Google doc for the long-term though, just because. I don't know if I switched it over. I think I would get angry emails from people saying that I like sold out to a WordPress or something. I'm not quite,Nathan: [00:30:56] Well, I like to think of Not a Newsletter as being like, sort of the speakeasy of newsletter content, where you have to know where to find it, you know, it's like, it's it's and then you get there and you're like, what did I even, what is this? but it goes to show that the important thing in a newsletter or any publishing business is the content.And really what you did is you cut through all of the noise of, should it be a newsletter? Should it be a blog? Oh, no, sorry, this isn't a blog. This is a magazine. Or like any of these debates of decisions that people get into. And you said like, look, it's content like valuable content delivered on a consistent cadence and a Google doc works right for that. so I love the simplicity of it.Dan: [00:31:41] I always, always, always urge newsletter. Creator is. If you're thinking about launching a newsletter, the two things you have to think about first are and not just a newsletter, any product, a blog, a website, an event series, anything, any piece of content or storytelling that's going out into the world who is the audience for it.And is it as clearly defined as it can be? Do we know really who we're trying to reach? You don't have to come up with. My, my reader is Susie in Des Moines. She's 36 years old and she likes shopping at Hy-Vee, but like, you should know who your audience is in this case. My audience is people who work in email care about email, send email, and make their money off of email.Alright that's about as specific as I can get. And then what am I going to do to serve them? What is the job of this newsletter? And with mine it's I want people to be able to dive really deep into a topic that affects their lives. Help give them the opportunities for analysis, for insight, to identify trends and because it's packaged in that way.It resonates with folks, but if you know any newsletter and you, your newsletter going to have 50 subscribers, 500, 500,000, know your audience and know what you're trying to do to serve them so often. And I'm sure you get these conversations too, on like a daily basis. People reach out. I have this amazing idea for an email.It's going to be great. Well, what is it like? Well, It's a newsletter where I share the most common one that I get. It's like, it's a newsletter where I share all the things that I'm reading every single week, people are going to love it. Like, all right, well, okay. Newsletter, reassurance stuff that you're reading this week.Who's the audience like the audience is anyone who's like smart and curious and interested. I'm like, yeah, I have really bad news. That audience isn't there. You have no audience, like you're building it on an audience of everyone, which means you're not building for anyone. Like who are you really building for?Who are your people that you're trying to reach now? Long-term you might reach more people than your existing audience. You might be able to build an awesome product that starts with a pretty narrow audience, and grows into something really big. Cool. That's great. a Great outcome. But start narrow.Start with something really specific. It can always grow from there. People start thinking I'm going to build the next Skimm I'm going to build the next morning brew. I'm going to be the next James clear. I'm going to be the next Malcolm Gladwell. everyone is going to read this. no, you have to start small and specific.Have an audience in mind, know how you're going to serve them. Then you can figure it out from there and grow it from there.Nathan: [00:34:19] Yeah, for sure. So. You know, we talked about newsletter starting back in 2011, 2012. Things have changed a lot, even just in the last 18 months or so to the last two years. What's your take on like this hockey stick of growth that we've seen in newsletters?Dan: [00:34:38] it was in some ways kind of inevitable because even just in the time I've been doing this. This is at least the second cycle of email is cool. There was one back in 2013, 2014, when products like the Skimm and Horts were doing really well. And TinyLetter was really on the rise and doing well, everyone had a TinyLetter and it's like, email is cool.And then there was the inevitable backlash, email sucks. Everyone hates email. I hate getting emails, yada yada, and then, you know, all of us working in email just kept doing our thing. And then when. This came back already for whatever reason. And cyclical comes back around. This is at least the second cycle of email as cool.And it will be followed inevitably with a backlash towards like emails to add. I hate email. it's just, it's going to how it's going to go forever. someone's going to invent the brand new thing. That's the, the email killer. Then people forget You kind of have to have an email address to exist on the internet.And most people like using email, it's simple. It's there on your phone. You don't have to be taught how to use it. And if you build good newsletters, like great, you're reaching people in a space they use every day. Plus thanks to the rise of mobile phones. It's easier than ever just to read something on your phone in those couple minutes, while you're getting coffee or you're on the subway or whatever it is anyway.What I think has really happened the last few years. that's exciting is people have shifted from thinking about email is cool because email drives traffic. Email is the place, especially in the news and non-profit world and brand world was like, email is what drives all this attention, attention, attention.And now it's like, Oh, Email's The thing that actually drives all my results. My revenue comes from email. If I do a good job building the right products and the right relationships. Email's going to sell a subscription to my publication. It's going to drive a sale of my product. It's going to lead to a donation to my organization.It's going to be thing that drives a new member. now we're seeing also people creators, and this is so exciting thinking, like if I build my audience, if I want to sell courses, I want to sell a membership, a subscription product, get people to come out to an event. Awesome. Like my email list is the thing that's going to do that.I think email is just. No matter how much people say that email is like, it's going to die. It's not going to last, yada, yada like email is here to stay because it works really well. And it does. At a place like The New Yorker, Conde Nast, our parent company used to talk a lot about this idea of cross-functional teams.We'd be like, all right, we have people from marketing and sales and editorial and all these different parts of the work we're going to work together. Email is the cross-functional tool. It's the thing that does a little bit of everything. It builds relationships. It drives loyalty. It drives traffic. It drives sales.It keeps, keeps people coming back and reduces churn. Emailed us a little bit of everything. So I know people want email to go away. I think it's just kind of here. You can accept it and get with it and try to build awesome things for email, or you can keep fighting it and keep fighting it. and At some point, people are going to give in and just say like Alright I guess this thing that works really well and everyone's everyone's having success with, I guess I'll give it a try.Nathan: [00:37:51] Yeah. Oh, that makes sense. so as you're looking at platforms and the recommendations on where people should. like how they should set up their list. Obviously there's the converts and sub stacks and ghosts and WordPress and medium and everything else out there. Like what are you recommending to clients?And what are the factors that, that go into that as you're trying to figure out what's the best bit for each person's newsletter?Dan: [00:38:14] So, wow. One is what that is a giant question. It is, it is one very individualized. I'm always very cautious about making big public proclamations. Like I never want to be in a position where. I, you know, I'm on a podcast or I write something in my Google doc and I'm like, this is the thing that everyone should use, because I remember seeing this back in the day where there'd be like studies done around email marketing and some organization would come out with some big report.And they'd say, like we did all these tasks, did all these tests and we found out that purple buttons convert best. And then you would open any email for the next six months. And they would all have purple buttons because one test happened and everyone just kind of thought on critically. It was like, well, I read on so-and-so marketing blog, that purple buttons.So like purple buttons for all. and so I'm always very cautious about being like, Oh, this is the thing you should use because. Everyone's case is unique. And so a lot of what I do is kind of individualize conversations with folks. I'm trying to figure out better ways to do this. I released a up like a basic version of this ESP guide a couple of months ago, and there's going to be additions to that.I'm going to do one in 20, 21 to around monetization from newsletters. And I'm trying to figure out ways to introduce kind of. Different sorts of recommendations for different sorts of users and try to personalize it as best I can. But even with that, I'm still expecting, I'll probably even do a fair amount of like one to ones and encouraging people to reach out, to ask questions.Cause like, I think email can be so powerful and so useful. And I'm so incredibly nervous about saying like, everyone should do this and then forever. Or everyone's like, well, I read this one thing. And even though it doesn't necessarily apply to my case, I'm just going to take it at face value and use it.And then people like Dan told us to do this and it didn't work out. what I will say is what's very exciting. Is just one of these options, but there's more options now to use email and use email effectively than ever before, which is amazing. From a creator perspectives is proliferation of tools, tools that can exist and be integrated with other sorts of sales platforms.So, you know, I'm an individual and I'm trying to sell courses or books or consulting. Or a paid subscription to my newsletter. I'm a news organization or nonprofit trying to drive reader, revenue, an e-commerce business, trying to drive sales, the number of tools that exist out there today, and options is really, really exciting and options.I mean, as far as I'm concerned and I always, as much as the work that I do with various ESPs and tech partners, like at the end of the day, All the writing that I do and work that I do is in service of my readers, who are writers, creators, newsrooms non-profits brands who are just trying to get the most out of email.And what I always tell them, it's like the fact of the matter is there are more things to do with the stuff you want to do now. And there were a year ago and there were five years ago. It means you have choice. Choice is a really good thing for you. You get to pick like what. Back it up. And actually to your question, what I usually tell them, it's like start with the stuff that you absolutely need.What's the stuff that you absolutely absolutely absolutely need to be successful, make that list of the three or four or five things that you care most about. Okay. So at the top of your list is automation's great. It doesn't mean that the number one thing is automations. Don't pick a tool that you aren't crazy about, the automation kind of feature, and then start to narrow it down and ask to have this sort of automation.And we need this level of personalization, or we need a tool that has certain integrations, you know, we're working off of WordPress. So we need something that has a native integration with WordPress. we're working off of ghost and we want to figure out something there. We use Zapier for a lot of things and we need it to work, whatever it is, think about, you know, what features you need integrations you're going to need certainly cost is obviously a factor, the data that you want out of it.And. With whatever tools you're using, think about whether or not the product is being built by people who get your use case. You know, something that I, I really respect about what you guys have done at ConvertKit is you all have always really been this creator first kind of ESP. And there are lots of great email options out there and different ESPs are being built for really specific use cases.Awesome. Like. Try to find ESPs or partners who get what it is that you're trying to do. It's not just a matter of, you know, I listened to a podcast and I heard this one, ESP advertise. So like, I'm going with them to think more critically, like, do they get what you're trying to do? And, you know, I. Even at a place like Buzzfeed in the back of the day at Buzzfeed, we use campaign monitor, send our newsletters and they were really good partner for us.back in the day, what I found was a lot of other newsrooms just automatically without asking us just picked them as the partner there. No, we had a really specific reason for picking it up. There were things we liked about their team, their setup, their customer service, their automations. That were really specific to what mean needed.You guys are picking them because you saw a press release that had my name on it. That I said that I really liked using their tool. Like, that's fine. I do like their tool, but I really wish you guys had asked. You know, Dan, like, what do you think of this? We're trying to do X, Y, and Z. Cause like they might be the right tool for you.They might not. and you really, because of the choice out there, like I just always encourage teams, like think critically, really make the list of stuff that you need, need, need. And then the stuff that would be really nice to have maybe, you know, Maybe it's really, really important to you that your email tool will have like a countdown timer built into the drag and drop builder.I don't know. Maybe that's not. It's like at the top of your list, which case sure. Like that narrows down your options quite a bit. Maybe the most important thing is automations. Maybe the most important thing is integrations. Whatever it is, like start with the list of stuff that you really need. And then that should help you narrow down.Like, you know what automations is top of the list. This tool doesn't really do that. This tool doesn't do that. Integration is really important. Well, that narrows it down a little bit more. You're going to be able to find something that does a lot of what you want to do. The other thing too. And I mean this with all due respect to the convert kit, which I think is a wonderful platform, no email tool does 100% of the things you want to do.And, until you build your own email platform that does all the things you want. Like no email tool does a hundred percent of the stuff you want. If you get someone that does. 75% of the stuff you want, you get down on your knees and you think the product team that built that tool that does 75% of the things you want, you signed a contract and you move forward.Nothing does everything. There's always gonna be stuff you wish it did. And that's just kind of, part of it.Nathan: [00:45:40] Yeah, that makes sense. Well, and I think the biggest takeaway is from what you're saying is that. The tool is ultimately not the thing that matters. What matters is great content in front of the right readers. And if you focus on those things, then, you know, like you said, get the tool that's largely a good fit, not going to get in your way and otherwise focus on the content of the vendors because ultimately your newsletter could be a Google doc if you want it, you know,Dan: [00:46:05] It doesn't really matter what the product looks like. It's about the content. And are you serving a really specific audience? You do that. You can deliver this thing via carrier pigeon and it'll do well, needs to be, have the content, know what you're trying to do, do for your audience and do it well every single time.And you're going to do good things in the long run. Whether it's a podcast, it's a blog shoot. You can prove to a print magazine, you can do a newsletter. You can do an events series, whatever it's audience content well over and over and over again. And you're going to have good results in the long run.Nathan: [00:46:43] Cool. I want to touch just for a second on monetization.Dan: [00:46:47] I reccomend it.Nathan: [00:46:49] Yeah, money. it's it's helpful. Yes. I'm pro monetization. Just want to get that out there.Dan: [00:46:56] You could slap it right on the, on the, the subject line of this, of this podcast, of this episode. Oshinsky, colon recommend making money. I'm not necessarily going to tell you how to do it, but I recommend trying its very leastNathan: [00:47:11] Yeah, exactly. So in that you've probably seen all kinds of different ways that people are making money. You know, paid newsletters of charging directly for the content, is seeing a big rise. People are doing, you know, courses, books, any of those things I'd love kind of your general overall take. And then what specific area that I want, you know, like your take instead of just some random newsletter creators take is kind of at this price point because you're seeing the wall street journal, and all of these other publications doing right.They've done paid subscriptions for a long time. And often you have an individual newsletter creator charging more than like a major publication is doing, right. So let's say that, you know, I'm signing up for, for this sub stack for $20 a month and I'm getting content that I'm really enjoying. And then I come across, you know, the New York times wall street journal, and I'm like $15 a month.That seems really expensive, you know? And you're like, well, wait, what, you know, it's, I'd love your take on, you know, these price points that individuals are charging versus newsrooms and. And, kind of thoughts on the whole paid newsletter thing in general.Dan: [00:48:18] So one is. I think it's amazing that this new format existed. I mean, Ben Thompson, Mr. Tucker was really the first one of these to do it. And it's the pioneer here, self stack and the work that you've done to push this forward. He's amazing. And now we're seeing a lot of folks interested in, can I build a business around a newsletter?the answer is yes. I think there's a couple of things to keep in mind. One is not everyone needs to have a paid newsletter. Like I am one of these folks, Not a Newsletter, I suppose, could be a paid newsletter product that people would pay for access for I've enough readers that if I went paid, it would probably do pretty well.I don't really have a lot of interest in doing that because I one. I Want to try to get my stuff out to as many people as possible impact for me is way more important than, you know, the total revenue I drive. Also, I make more than enough money with Inbox Collective. I don't need the, so I'm happy with what it does and how it helps and, and, and.You know, everything that is fucked up, doesn't have not just a lot of works. Dan, Runcie at Trapital is another great example, had a paid-newsletter product realized Oh, my impact is actually in, in telling these stories and doing consulting cool. Like there's lots of different ways to make money off a newsletter that aren't a paid newsletter.Consulting selling courses, getting people out to an event series, building a membership program. these are all ways you can drive revenue and that's really, really exciting. So anyone thinking about launching a newsletter, thinking about making money from it? You don't have to immediately go to paid newsletter.Like there are other options. It is one of several. I also think what's really crucial and we'll see, I think a ton of in 2021 are different types of paid newsletter products. So the wall street journal is a fantastic organization. Subscriber love their work. I think they do awesome stuff. We're going to see a lot more in newsrooms in 2021, say, you know what?There's actually a group of us who live in this city. We want to cover the city really, really well. We're going to launch a newsletter. We're going to launch and have a subscription product. That's going to cost X number of dollars per year. People are going to pay for access to local news or coverage, in Charlotte, the Charlotte ledger.The team that I'm starting to do some work with, and they're doing amazing work it's business news for Charlotte, a very small team of reporters working on that. There's going to be a lot of interesting opportunities there. It doesn't just have to be, I'm a single person. I tried to build an audience and tell you about what I'm thinking there.There's other opportunities out there there's only so many, you know, Andrew Sullivan's of the world, and. For a lot of folks actually thinking about a local news angle or thinking about working together with a handful of different writers to put together a real publication, this kind of bundle model publication model is really, really interesting.I am really bullish on the future of kind of driving record. I knew from newsletters, once you build an audience, there's lots of opportunities to sell stuff. I just hope that people. There is a little bit of fear on my end that people are going to start these and think like I saw that. No jet lag, launched a newsletter and it's doing amazing.And he's just one guy reporting on this so I can do it too. And they think In three months I'm gonna be making $100,000 a year off my newsletter. I'm like, well, you don't have an audience yet. You haven't defined an audience yet. They don't know ya It's going to be, if you're building a, you know, newsletter product you want to be your full-time business.It's probably going to be a two-year process minimum to build and grow and drive the revenue you want. this is not a game you get into with like, short-term returns in mind. I often find myself saying direction is more important than speed, where you are going is more important than how fast you get there.If your goal is to figure out how to make a quick buck getting into the newsletter game is probably not for you. You had a question in there somewhere that INathan: [00:52:22] No, I, I, I think you've covered it. I, I, that's a, that's a great place to kind of start to wrap up. This is a long-term game and going all the way back to relationships and building that with your audience, building that loyalty with your audiences, it's going to take time. And when you see things, I think a lot of people online see these gold rushes that happen over time.Right? You see someone making money, whether it's, you know, maybe courses and then it's Bitcoin, and then it's amp like fulfillment by Amazon drop shipping or whatever else. And. So I think you're going to have a lot of people right now and go, Whoa, newsletters are the way to make money right now, whether you're doing a paid newsletter or anything else.And it's like stop chasing gold rushes. Like maybe some of the other things, there was a gold rush. The gold rush of newsletters is going to take a long time for you to achieve. And I think most of the people who come in with the intention, or if they're there for the primary reason to make money, rather than for a love of writing or the craft or whatever else.They're going to get burned out and give up while before the money shows up.Dan: [00:53:30] it's the, it's exactly what I mentioned earlier with, my old boss Dow and that silver bullet. Like if the silver bullet metric is. All I care about is revenue. And I just need to make as much money as quickly as possible. Like this is not something that's going to work out for you. If your only metric is traffic, like, all I care about is driving clicks.Like this is not going to work out. You have to have a couple things in mind. You really have to have. Honestly, like, it sounds kind of corny, but kind of have to have a mission. When you start with the newsletter you have to have, this is the thing that I'm doing for this audience. This is why I think I can be useful and how I can be helpful.And if I do a good job, I build that loyalty. I build the audience in the long run. I think there's going to be a return on that investment and that time that I put in, but it's not a short-term play like the, I drop shipping and Bitcoin. These are all great examples. Like email is like spend is like, I have a thousand dollars in the bank, where can I put it to make quick money?You're like, well, I guess you could like bet it all on Bitcoin. And maybe you'll get lucky. I don't know a thing about Bitcoin, but I all other, other, other than that, Every time somebody tries to tell me about Bitcoin. I get confused. And like, I still don't understand that at all. But if your goal is like, how do I make a quick buck?Like, I guess, like spend it on Bitcoin, but you could also just, you know, drive to Reno and put a thousand dollars down on black or whatever. And see if you double your money. Email is like, I don't know, taking a thousand dollars and going out and buying some shares of Coca-Cola like, could it make, could it be successful for you in the long run?Yeah, that's probably a pretty good bet. Give it 10, 15, 20 years.Right. It's a longterm play. You gotta be in it to win it.Nathan: [00:55:10] Yeah. Yeah, totally. Well, Dan, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks for coming on the podcast. I'd love to, for you to just to end by sharing where people should follow your work and, and, you know, follow Not a Newsletter and Inbox Collective, and allDan: [00:55:23] Oh, yeah, thanks. So people can find me, Not a Newsletter is available at notanewsletter.com. and if you want to sign up for it, signup.notanewsletter.com. There is an email alert tied to the newsletter. It's not a newsletter. It's an alert. I know it's a technicality. Please don't be the 9000th person who's emailed me about it.I know, I know. I know when I launched it, I gave it the name. I didn't realize that one day I was going to have to explain over to him. There is an email alert technically, and it's not a newsletter, the whole setup. So I signed up at notanewsletter.com. I do writing every single week, not on newsletter topics, just about stuff that I'm learning danoshinsky.com.And Inbox Collective, which is my consulting work, where I work with nonprofits and news organizations and brands to help them figure out how to get the most out of email that's inboxcollective.com. Naturally, that'll actually take you to a set of Google slides. again, once you, once you kind of form a brand as the person who does all their stuff on Google docs, this is what happens.You got to stay true to the brand. Yes, exactly. All right.Nathan: [00:56:26] Thanks so much.Dan: [00:56:27] Thanks so much for having me.

En este episodio analizo los racionales detrás de la compra del Huffington Post de parte de Buzzfeed. ¿Por qué Jonah Peretti vio potencial detrás de una marca que para muchos ha visto pasar sus mejores épocas? ¿Qué puede hacer Buzzfeed News para competir con gigantes como el Washington Post y el New York Times? ¿Qué áreas se fortalecen para Buzzfeed?Les comparto aquí un texto en que basé mi análisis: https://digiday.com/media/they-wanted-to-unload-it-bad-why-huffpost-made-sense-for-buzzfeed-and-verizon-media-group/Y aquí un podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DWlC6yGla3H2oILbb2qwr?si=8hHsxgUVTXClQUBKNCVUqw See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: Donald Trump has summoned lawmakers from Michigan to Washington, DC, as part of his slow-rolling coup attempt. And his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, appears to be leaking fluid. Meanwhile, federal health officials are urging Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving next week. It seems like not a huge ask, given the life-and-death stakes. And lastly, most of the people who got arrested at civil rights demonstrations over the summer have wound up getting their charges dismissed. Because – you guessed it – the charges were trumped up by the cops. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: With his legal strategy failing, Donald Trump has begun strong-arming state and local Republican officials to help him rig the election after the fact. Trump has invited the leaders of Michigan’s Republican-controlled state legislature to meet him in Washington today, the Washington Post reports. Trump lost Michigan to President-Elect Joe Biden by one hundred and fifty seven thousand votes. But Trump’s team thinks the will of the voters doesn’t matter. The state GOP legislative leaders who plan to visit the White House today are Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield, the Post reports. Earlier this week, Trump called a member of Wayne County’s Board of Canvassers to pressure her to rescind her vote to certify the election results. But the secretary of state’s office said that would be impossible. No take-backs! This latest coup d’etat strategy is still a long shot. Even if Trump somehow flipped Michigan and Pennsylvania, he would still need to steal at least one more state from Biden to win the electoral college. A senior Trump campaign official told Reuters its plan is to cast enough doubt on vote-counting in Democratic cities that Republican lawmakers will have little choice but to intercede. The campaign believes the longer they can drag this out, the better their chances of success. And so they continue to try to create a spectacle. Yesterday Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, held a crazed news conference in which he made the wild and baseless claim that Biden nationally coordinated a campaign of vote fraud. As sweat and dark streaks of what might have been hair dye rolled down his face, Giuliani said QUOTE I know crimes, I can smell them ENDQUOTE. Is that what that is? We were sure it was you, Rudy! CDC: AVOID THANKSGIVING TRAVEL In a meeting with governors yesterday, Joe Biden expressed concern that Donald Trump’s attempted coup has kept him in the dark when it comes to coronavirus vaccine planning. Biden said his administration hasn’t yet been able to get everything it needs to prepare a pandemic response, the Associated Press reports. He spoke via video conference to the National Governors Association’s leadership team, which includes five Republicans and four Democrats. Also joining were the several leaders of Biden’s virus task force. Biden told the governors he would make sure they get the resources they need to beat this virus. Also yesterday, per the AP, the nation’s top public health agency pleaded with Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving and not to spend the holiday with people from outside their household. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the recommendations at a time when diagnosed infections, hospitalizations and deaths are skyrocketing. In many areas, the health care system is being squeezed by a combination of sick patients filling up beds and medical workers falling ill themselves. CDC officials cited more than one million new cases in the US over the past week as the reason for the new guidance. They say the safest way to celebrate Thanksgiving this year is at home with the people in your household. But for those who do welcome travelers for the holiday, the CDC recommends added precautions: Gatherings should be outdoors if possible, with people keeping six feet apart and wearing masks and just one person serving the food. Henry Walke, the CDC’s covid-19 incident manager, told the Washington Post QUOTE what’s at stake is basically the increased chance of one of your loved ones becoming sick and then being hospitalized and dying ENDQUOTE. Staying home sounds simpler, yes? PROTESTERS BEATING MOST CHARGES LUCIE: Months after a summer filled with street demonstrations, as thousands of cases against protesters finally land in courts across the US, a vast majority are being dismissed. Only cases involving more substantial charges like property destruction or violence remain, the New York Times reports. Prosecutors said that the scale of both the mass arrests and mass dismissals was unrivaled, at least since the civil rights protests of the 1960s. With the police detaining hundreds of people in major cities, the arrests this year ended up colliding with the limitations of the court system. Prosecutors declined to pursue many cases because they concluded that the protesters were exercising their basic civil rights. Court backlogs due to the coronavirus pandemic also played a role in the decision, the Times reports. There was also the recognition, as the Times put it, that police often use mass arrests as a technique to clear the streets, not to confront illegal behavior. (In other words: the charges were BS.) Protest leaders and defense attorneys nationwide accuse the police of piling on charges to try to halt the demonstrations. Here’s one example: The Raleigh, North Carolina News and Observer reports that a pastor who led a march to the polls that was disbanded by pepper spray on October 31 now faces felony charges. Reverend Greg Drumwright has been accused of assault with physical injury on a law enforcement officer and obstruction of justice, both felonies, plus two lesser charges. More than twenty people were arrested during the march, including a reporter. Drumwright led a racially diverse group of roughly two hundred people from a church to the county courthouse, where they paused for eight minutes and forty-six seconds, in a gesture meant to honor George Floyd. Shortly thereafter, police told the crowd to clear the street and began using pepper spray, according to the News and Observer. Among the people affected by the chemicals were children and elderly people. Where’s the justice for them? Here’s hoping Reverend Drumwright also enjoys a speedy dismissal of the charges against him. AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: BuzzFeed, Incorporated has agreed to acquire Verizon Media’s HuffPost in a stock transaction. It’s part of a larger deal between the two companies. The two websites will reportedly stay separate, and BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti told the New York Times, QUOTE We want HuffPost to be more HuffPosty, and BuzzFeed to be more BuzzFeedy ENDQUOTE. But the Quickie will always be more Quickie-ee. Mike Pompeo this week toured an archaeological dig run by a far-right Israeli settler group and visited a settlement that farms grapes on land Palestinians say was stolen from them, the Guardian reports. It was the first time a US secretary of state had officially visited Israeli settlements. How predictable that the stricture was broken by a fundamentalist Christian evangelical like Pompeo. The Washington Post interviewed Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenage killer of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August. The paper learned, among other things, that Rittenhouse used money from the government’s coronavirus stimulus program to pay for his rifle, which he was too young to legally buy. Rittenhouse claims to have no regrets about arming himself. That could change, just wait until you get older – or your trial progresses. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York yesterday claimed that Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has agreed to resume negotiations with Democrats over a potential new Covid-19 relief bill. Schumer called the news QUOTE a little bit of a breakthrough ENDQUOTE. But NBC News reports that Congressional aides believe Schumer was overselling the development. Call us when you’ve got something real, Chuck! That’s all for the AM Quickie. Join us this afternoon on the Majority Report. NOV 20, 2020 - AM QUICKIE HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Corey Pein PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn

Today we're discussing the CDC's push for Americans to stay home on Thanksgiving, the 48,000 COVID deaths in America predicted between now and December 12th, Oxford-AstraZeneca's vaccine results, what we've learned about COVID-19's long term effects, the NFL's collaboration with Visa to produce a cashless Super Bowl, the $100 million raised by LA Media Fund New Slate Ventures for cultural projects, Affirm's IPO, Apple's cutting of app store fees for small businesses, Amazon's Alexa glasses, BuzzFeed's purchase of HuffPost, the Wayne County Republicans that were asked to rescind their votes, Barack Obama's 890,000 book sales on day one, George Soros's appearance in Jesse Dylan's new documentary, a LIVE Winners, Losers, and Content Recommendations segment, and more. Group Chat University, our debut collegiate merch is here! We collaborated with Melrose Place to bring you the best quality merch we could get our hands on. Orders are open for one week, 50% OFF, when it’s gone it’s gone! https://www.themenlohouse.com/store/collection/group-chat  For international Kathy’s, head to https://www.grandrunningclub.com/collections/group-chat Introducing the 2nd Annual Grand Running Club Virtual Race Series! Register for either the 5k, 10k or half marathon and you will receive the best race package EVER. This includes an exclusive Grand Running Club race hoodie, a $25 gift card to spend at grandrunningclub.com, discounts from all our favorite apparel & footwear brands, and a selection of sample products from our partners to help you pre & post run. You can run or walk the distance you sign up for, anywhere on Earth, anytime between December 5th and December 6th 2020. 2020 is almost over, leave your mark: https://virtualrace.grandrunningclub.com Shop now and get 2 of the Everyday Pants for only $80 or use code GroupChat for an even better deal! Lockdown Looming – Group Chat News A second lockdown looming, but does anyone care?! [3:05] Thanksgiving, the super spreader of the year! [8:28] How many people know Bill Gates created Microsoft versus microchips? [15:04] Is the 3rd wave of small business hell starting now? [19:35] The latest vaccine announcement. [25:01] The scary nature and long-term effects of the coronavirus. [26:26] How Anand taunted the virus early on. [30:50] Will the guys go to the Super Bowl? [37:13] Pete Reads the Ads. [42:25] Group Chat is ‘culturally impactful’. [45:01] Pay attention to fintech. [49:23] What’s going on with Apple?! [52:09] Jeff Bezos should be running the chip race. [57:05] To be a website and stay relevant. [1:00:02] What is going on in Wayne County? [1:02:17] Barack is cool. [1:06:35] Group Chat Conspiracy Corner. [1:08:44] Weekly Winners & Losers. [1:13:30] Hottest Content for the Weekend. [1:27:08] Group Chat Shout Outs. [1:34:57] Related Links/Products Mentioned CDC urges Americans against traveling for Thanksgiving as coronavirus outbreak worsens Up to 48,00 more Americans could die from COVID-19 by December 12, according to CDC forecast Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine shows robust immune response among older adults Doctors Begin to Crack Covid’s Mysterious Long-Term Effects The NFL and Visa will host cashless Super Bowl in Tampa Bay with ‘reverse ATMs’ LA Media Fund New Slate Ventures Raises $100 Million To Invest In “Culturally Impactful” Projects Affirm just made its IPO filing public, providing the first detailed look inside the breakout 'buy now, pay later' fintech startup's finances Apple, Under Pressure, Slashes App Store Fees For Small Businesses Amazon’s glasses that let you talk to Alexa launch for everyone next month BuzzFeed acquires HuffPost from Verizon, reuniting CEO Jonah Peretti with website he co-founded Wayne County Republicans ask to ‘rescind’ their votes certifying election results Nearly 890,000 copies of Barack Obama's book sold on the first day 'I'm happy that I irritate some people': Billionaire investor George Soros breaks his silence on being a bogeymen for the far right in new documentary in his storied life with Bob Dylan's son Jesse Model Y drags down Tesla's ranking in annual reliability survey by Consumer Reports Newsom's French Laundry dinner sparks questions about 'outdoor dining' definition Content Recommendation Dee - Tehran on Apple TV+ DASH & LILY | Netflix Official Site Anand - The Giannis Draft - from The Woj Pod Drama - Watch The Full Gucci Mane Vs Jeezy ‘Verzuz’ Battle SAINt JHN - While The World Was Burning Album Connect with Group Chat! Watch The Pod #1 Newsletter In The World For The Gram Tweet With Us Exclusive Facebook Content

Jonah Peretti co-founded Huffington Post, then left to start BuzzFeed. Now he’s running both companies. He sits down with Recode Media’s Peter Kafka to explain the logic behind the deal, his ambitions to grow even bigger - and why he says the New York Times can’t be “the paper of record”. Featuring: Jonah Peretti (@peretti), Founder & CEO of BuzzFeed Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's increasingly difficult for platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to balance free speech while keeping misinformation and bad-actors in check. Instead of relying solely on content moderation, what if digital media companies tried harder to "make good internet" to crowd out the negativity? In this Keynote from SXSW 2019, co-founder and CEO of BuzzFeed Jonah Peretti describes how digital publishers and technology platforms can work together to make the internet a source of joy and optimism rather than hate and despair.

John Nerst, in some sort of bizarre ascetic practice, enjoys studying people disagreeing online. While online discourse is a cesspool of bad intentions, bad faith, and, of course, bad arguments, John is able to divine some deep insights about the fundamental nature of human disagreement. In this interview, we discuss how the abstractions we use let us down when we are trying to be precise in moral arguments, how the “decoupling vs contextualizing” axis explains how smart people with good intentions can endlessly talk past each other, and why the “tilted political compass” gives many folks who are alienated by contemporary political discourse a home. Learn more from John here: Website: www.everythingstudies.com Twitter: @everytstudiesr If you're enjoying the show, the best way to support it is by sharing with your friends. If you don't have any friends, why not a leave a review? It makes a difference in terms of other people finding the show. You can also subscribe to receive my e-mail newsletter at www.toddnief.com. Most of my writing never makes it to the blog, so get on that list. Suggested Posts from John: “Erisology: The Science of Arguing About Everything” from The Atlantic The Tilted Political Compass, Part 1: Left and Right The Tilted Political Compass, Part 2: Up and Down The Nerd as the Norm Case Study: The War on Christmas Science, the Constructionists, and Reality A Deep Dive into the Harris-Klein Controversy 30 Fundamentals Show Notes: [01:38] The anxiety associated with the overwhelming amount of interesting things there are out there to learn—and how John focuses on things outside of his comfort zone in order to keep learning. [06:44] John’s mental model for piecing together arguments that he doesn’t agree with. And, a primer on postmodern philosophy and contextualization. [14:01] Many arguments result from a disagreement on the definitions of abstractions. It’s easy to pick apart the vagaries of arguments that aren’t on “our side,” while simultaneously giving the benefit of the doubt to conclusions that we like. [25:55] Abstractions are “leaky,” and are often the root of disagreements. [37:50] An argument intended to correct for a worldview that has “swung too far” can seem totally out of touch to someone who doesn’t have the same shared context. [44:17] Contextualizers vs decouplers: should information be interpreted in abstractions and toy problems, or should the social context in which arguments exist always be paramount? [53:28] Certain arguments and pieces of information are mimetically fit and can jump outside of their original context—sometimes to the chagrin of the original author [01:03:39] How contextualizing vs decoupling helps create the tilted political compass—and how the tilted political compass helps several people alienated by contemporary political discourse find their home [01:13:01] The dopamine hit from finding a validation of your identity online [01:16:38] Where to get started with John’s blog Everything Studies Links and Resources Mentioned Postmodernism Post-structuralism Universal grammar Noam Chomsky The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge Eric Weinstein String theory Michel Foucault “Nobody: ” from Know Your Meme Richard Dawkins’s controversial Tweet “The ‘10,000-hour rule’ about becoming an expert is wrong — here’s why” from Business Insider “The Wisdom of Crowds” by James Surowiecki Condorcet’s jury theorem “Albert Kao, PhD on the Wisdom of Crowds and Hyperconnected Networks” from Todd Nief “The cognitive decoupling elite” from Dross Bucket Wittgenstein’s “family resemblance” Black Sabbath Iron Maiden Suffocation “A Thrive/Survive Theory Of The Political Spectrum” from Slate Star Codex WEIRD psychology Jonah Peretti “Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia” by Jonah Peretti

Fridaycast 152 – O tema principal começa aos (3:34) Bancada: Anderson Rocha, Carlos Anibale, Michel Gomes e Renata Oliveira Links Fridaycast: Instagram: instagram.com/fridaycast Twitter: twitter.com/fridaycastbr Facebook: facebook.com/fridaycast Participe do “Eu Tava Ali” e mande sua mensagem para o e-mail fridaycast@fridaycast.com.br ou por nossas redes sociais! Apoio: Shogun Livraria - shogunlivraria.com.br Edição: AudioTune - audiotune.com.br Arte de capa: Carlos Anibale - behance.net/anibalecarlos O BuzzFeed é uma empresa de comunicação e mídia fundada em 2006 nos Estados Unidos. A empresa chegou no Brasil em 2013 com a mesma proposta que já existia no solo americano: uma mistura de memes, listas e jornalismo que ganhou uma enorme quantidade de seguidores na internet. Em uma entrevista para a revista Época em 2015, Jonah Peretti, o grande nome por trás do BuzzFeed conclui que "no fundo o que há por trás do sucesso do site é uma mistura de ciência e arte." A proposta é uma viralização de conteúdos noticiosos, engraçados e listas que geram debates e espalham rapidamente na internet. Todo mundo que usa a grande rede mundial de computadores já se viu em frente a um teste para descobrir que personagem de televisão é você ou qual música de carnaval representa a sua vida amorosa Hoje os fridaycasters vão preencher com vocês alguns testes do BuzzFeed e debater e se surpreender com os resultados! Testes que fizemos no episódio: Você consegue acertar quem disse isso: grupo de pagode 90 ou Shakespeare? Qual celebridade brasileira te interpretaria no filme sobre a sua vida? Quais dessas comidas você cancelaria? Aqui estão 10 perguntas sobre assuntos aleatórios para você tentar acertar Qual Prêmio Nobel você deveria ganhar?

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BuzzFeed audience is at record highs. But the pandemic's economic effects have crushed the bottom line. BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti shares how his company is making hard decisions to build long-term stability. “But the transition is painful,” he says. While BuzzFeed is leaning into food vertical Tasty, new e-commerce habits, and BuzzFeed News, he worries that businesses like his don't have more resources to support staffers of color. But, he says, there's a clarity of purpose in crisis, in bearing witness to the things that are happening in the world.

BuzzFeed audience is at record highs. But the pandemic's economic effects have crushed the bottom line. BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti shares how his company is making hard decisions to build long-term stability. “But the transition is painful,” he says. While BuzzFeed is leaning into food vertical Tasty, new e-commerce habits, and BuzzFeed News, he worries that businesses like his don't have more resources to support staffers of color. But, he says, there's a clarity of purpose in crisis, in bearing witness to the things that are happening in the world.

收听提示 1、除了带货，直播还有别的可能吗？ 2、当今的互联网直播和传统电视直播有什么不一样？ 3、直播会带来新的内容形式吗？ 4、看直播的人，到底在看什么？ 本集嘉宾 方可成 方可成，香港中文大学新闻与传播学院助理教授，美国宾夕法尼亚大学传播学博士，本科和硕士毕业于北京大学，原《南方周末》记者，"新闻实验室"和"政见CNPolitics"发起人。 本集相关 《媒介事件》 作为一种新的电视样式，对"历史性"事件的电视现场直播已经成为世界性仪式。按照戴扬和卡茨的观点，这种直播事件虽然一方面把世界各地的观众固定在了电视机前，另一方面却具有改变社会的潜能。本书分析了奥运会、查尔斯王子和黛安娜王妃的婚礼、约翰F·肯尼迪的葬礼、登月事件以 及教皇约翰·保罗二世出访波兰这样一些重大事件，从文化人类学的视角研究了媒体事件的脚本、协疯、表现、庆祝、萨满教化以及播出效果这六个方面的基本问题。 布朗肖 莫里斯·布朗肖 （法语：Maurice Blanchot，1907年9月22日－2003年2月20日），法国著名作家、思想家、欧陆哲学家。 1907年生于索恩-卢瓦尔，1923年升入斯特拉斯堡大学，学习德语和哲学，1925年终身挚友伊曼纽尔·列维纳斯相遇。在学习哲学的列维纳斯引介下，布朗肖开始接触现象学和海德格尔，又经由海德格尔，布朗肖深化了作为他核心论题的死亡哲学；而在德语领域，对应的则是同样身为犹太人的卡夫卡伴随了布朗肖的一生。1929年，布朗肖动身前往巴黎，以《怀疑论者的独断主义概念》在索邦大学学成学业。他的作品深深影响了法国思想界，尤其是后结构主义的哲学家，例如雅克·德里达等。 2003年布朗肖在法国逝世。由于其一生行事低调，中年后更是不接受采访与摄影，所以直到去世之前，大众甚至都不清楚这个被称为"法国二十世纪最著名的失踪者"是否尚在人世。 BuzzFeed 乔纳·派瑞提（Jonah Peretti）在2006年11月创立了BuzzFeed BuzzFeed是一间美国的网络新闻媒体公司，由乔纳·派瑞提（Jonah Peretti）于2006年在纽约市成立。公司最初是一间研究网络热门话题的实验室（viral lab），如今已成为全球性的媒体和科技公司，提供包括政治、手工艺、动物和商业等主题的新闻内容。2011年下半，《Politico》杂志的班·史密斯（Ben Smith）受聘为BuzzFeed的总编辑，希望能借此增加较严肃之新闻和长篇报导内容。 本集音乐 Tennessee Ernie Ford-Sixteen Tons 上集回顾 我们要如何理解澳门？ 《八分》每周三、周五晚8点更新 欢迎留言和我们互动

收听提示 1、除了带货，直播还有别的可能吗？ 2、当今的互联网直播和传统电视直播有什么不一样？ 3、直播会带来新的内容形式吗？ 4、看直播的人，到底在看什么？ 本集嘉宾 方可成 方可成，香港中文大学新闻与传播学院助理教授，美国宾夕法尼亚大学传播学博士，本科和硕士毕业于北京大学，原《南方周末》记者，"新闻实验室"和"政见CNPolitics"发起人。 本集相关 《媒介事件》 作为一种新的电视样式，对"历史性"事件的电视现场直播已经成为世界性仪式。按照戴扬和卡茨的观点，这种直播事件虽然一方面把世界各地的观众固定在了电视机前，另一方面却具有改变社会的潜能。本书分析了奥运会、查尔斯王子和黛安娜王妃的婚礼、约翰F·肯尼迪的葬礼、登月事件以 及教皇约翰·保罗二世出访波兰这样一些重大事件，从文化人类学的视角研究了媒体事件的脚本、协疯、表现、庆祝、萨满教化以及播出效果这六个方面的基本问题。 布朗肖 莫里斯·布朗肖 （法语：Maurice Blanchot，1907年9月22日－2003年2月20日），法国著名作家、思想家、欧陆哲学家。 1907年生于索恩-卢瓦尔，1923年升入斯特拉斯堡大学，学习德语和哲学，1925年终身挚友伊曼纽尔·列维纳斯相遇。在学习哲学的列维纳斯引介下，布朗肖开始接触现象学和海德格尔，又经由海德格尔，布朗肖深化了作为他核心论题的死亡哲学；而在德语领域，对应的则是同样身为犹太人的卡夫卡伴随了布朗肖的一生。1929年，布朗肖动身前往巴黎，以《怀疑论者的独断主义概念》在索邦大学学成学业。他的作品深深影响了法国思想界，尤其是后结构主义的哲学家，例如雅克·德里达等。 2003年布朗肖在法国逝世。由于其一生行事低调，中年后更是不接受采访与摄影，所以直到去世之前，大众甚至都不清楚这个被称为"法国二十世纪最著名的失踪者"是否尚在人世。 BuzzFeed 乔纳·派瑞提（Jonah Peretti）在2006年11月创立了BuzzFeed BuzzFeed是一间美国的网络新闻媒体公司，由乔纳·派瑞提（Jonah Peretti）于2006年在纽约市成立。公司最初是一间研究网络热门话题的实验室（viral lab），如今已成为全球性的媒体和科技公司，提供包括政治、手工艺、动物和商业等主题的新闻内容。2011年下半，《Politico》杂志的班·史密斯（Ben Smith）受聘为BuzzFeed的总编辑，希望能借此增加较严肃之新闻和长篇报导内容。 本集音乐 Tennessee Ernie Ford-Sixteen Tons 上集回顾 我们要如何理解澳门？ 《八分》每周三、周五晚8点更新 欢迎留言和我们互动

Episode Notes In this episode we discuss accelerationism in its varying conceptions. Some helpful articles include: - Jonah Peretti, "Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Contemporary Visual Culture and the Acceleration of Identity Formation/Dissolution" - Dylan Matthews, "BuzzFeed's founder used to write Marxist theory and it explains BuzzFeed perfectly" - Zack Beauchamp, "Accelerationism: the obscure idea inspiring white supremacist killers around the world" - Curtis Yarvin, "Plan A for the Coronavirus"We appreciate any and all feedback, comments, questions, or reviews. Thanks for listening!Catch the first episode of the series.Find more on: https://athwart.org/et-alia/ep-3-accelerationismImage: Photo by Isis França on Unsplash Music: "Sans Sans" by Rrrrrose Azerty (CC BY 3.0)

Founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III, BuzzFeed unlocked the formula in creating content that goes viral. As a result, the news and entertainment media brand has a global audience of over 520 million people. So how did BuzzFeed become so successful? What are they doing right? And how did the brand start out? Learn about the origin story of BuzzFeed in this episode. Facebook - facebook.com/brandoriginsfm Twitter - @brandoriginsfm Email - chris@partizan.ph This episode is made possible by Partizan

Los hoteles Hilton y Buzzfeed anunciaron una alianza que permitirá a Jonah Peretti explorar uno de sus caminos estratégicos trazados para el 2020: el desafío a los modelos de atribución. Tras presentar la idea en su primer mensaje de este año, Peretti puso manos a la obra para convertir a Hilton en su socio estratégico en Bring Me, con lo que al contenido que ya ofrecía su vertical de viajes se sumará la oferta de reservaciones ofrecida por Hilton, incentivando así su idea de que un publisher debe ser reconocido por la "inspiración" o "intención" que genera en sus usuarios. Esta tendencia, que no es exclusiva de Buzzfeed, pone en los miembros de la industria de medios la necesidad de entender las dinámicas del e-commerce, de conocer de modelos de atribución y la conciencia de su rol como parte del funnel de compra de un bien o servicio por parte de los usuarios.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

BuzzFeed CEO, Jonah Peretti, sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka live from the Digital Content Next Summit in Miami to discuss BuzzFeed's new direction. Featuring: Jonah Peretti (@peretti) CEO & Founder of BuzzFeed Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can we evolve the web for a better future? Has the web become a mature platform — or are we still in the early days of knowing what it can do and what role it might have in our lives? Just as “social/local/mobile” once did, what are the new trends — like crypto and blockchain networks and commerce everywhere — that might converge into new products and experiences?Chris Dixon (general partner at a16z and co-lead of the a16z crypto fund) discusses all things internet with Jonah Peretti (founder and CEO of BuzzFeed). Their conversation ranges from the early days of the web to the way innovation happens (what Chris calls “outside-in vs inside-out”) to the promise of a community-owned and operated internet, and more.Together they explore the possibilities that could co-evolve and converge are we enter into the next era of the web, and they share how we might not be quite as far removed from the “wild west days” of the internet as we imagined.

Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Norway, joins Christiane Amanpour to reflect on 70 years of NATO, their strategy on terrorism and their approach to Trump's foreign policy. Gérard Araud, former French Ambassador to the United States, and Karin von Hippel, the Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute, weigh in and assess the future of the post-war alliance. Yaron Zilberman, co-writer and director of "Incitement", talks about dramatizing the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He explains how the consequences of that deep division and religious extremism seen 25 years ago can still be felt in Israeli society today. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed and co-founder of The Huffington Post, to unpack what "public interest" means in the age of the internet.

主播丨李蓉慧 嘉宾丨肖旭 后期制作丨迪卡普里鑫 （以下文字只是音频节目的少许补充。「硅谷早知道」为「声动活泼」传媒旗下节目，每周周五中午12点准时更新，敬请期待。） 如果说 36 氪的上市只是一个微观事件，那么从宏观角度看待科技媒体近二十多年内的风起云涌其实更加有趣。 本期由两个有硅谷驻站经验的记者，为大家梳理了这二十多年的硅谷互联网媒体史：在互联网和移动互联网的浪潮下，硅谷科技媒体如何顺势而起，遇到哪些问题，作出何种反应，又如何起起落落。 我们希望通过这样的历史梳理，让你更多一层了解美国的科技行业，硅谷的创投生态环境，以及新闻媒体在这个环境中的独特作用。 另外「声动活泼」正在筹划新一档播客节目 ——「反潮流俱乐部」。在这档节目里，我们会涉足时尚和潮流圈，并展示背后有趣、深刻的那一面，大家可以添加添加我们小助手「声小音」的微信 shengfm1 咨询，或者点击下方链接直接支持我们并解锁第一期demo。 国内用户 「冲呀 」https://www.chongya.com/@shengfm 国内用户「爱发电」https://afdian.net/@shengfm 国外用户「patreon」https://www.patreon.com/shengfm 本期主播 李蓉慧, 原「第一财经周刊」驻硅谷记者 本期嘉宾 肖旭（Vicky）,品玩旗下硅星人负责人 The Takeaway 硅谷的科技媒体大概可以分为四个时期：第一个是以莫博士为代表的硬件测评开创时期；之后是科技媒体创业的全盛时代；第三是洗牌和深度报道被推崇的时期；最后是政治科技不分家、新的内容传播方式兴起。 本期讨论的主要问题有： * 早期科技媒体时期（莫博士、《连线》杂志） * 最有代表的科技媒体探讨（The Verge、Techmeme ） * 全盛媒体时期的媒体探讨及问题（TechCrunch） * 深度报道时代（BuzzFeed 、华尔街日报） * 政治科技报道及硅星人的相关报道 * 新的科技媒体形式（播客、YouTuber） 访谈中提及名词 * Walter Mossberg，昵称莫博士，曾是《华尔街日报》首席技术专栏作家，联合创立《华尔街日报》的科技板块 AllThingsD，后创办 Recode 网站，2017 年 4 月宣布退休。 * WIRED，《连线》杂志，创刊于 1993 年。隶属于美国传媒巨头康泰纳仕集团。2006 年时任主编 Chris Anderson 提出的长尾理论集结成书。《连线》一直以报道科技对生活影响出名。 * Techmeme ，美国知名科技新闻和博客聚合网站，其科技文章主要来自科技公司的官方网站、媒体和科技博客，通过分析当日新闻的热门和重要程度组织内容，以一个话题的多方报道为一个内容集合的方式呈现。 * All Things Digital Conference ，《华尔街日报》主办的数字大会，2007 年，苹果创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯与微软创始人比尔·盖茨首次（也是唯一一次）同台讨论微软与苹果的发展状况。 * TechCrunch ，美国科技类博客，由 Michael Arrington 建立，2010 年宣布以 2500 万美元的价格出售给美国在线（AOL），TechCrunch Disrupt 是其每年举办的行业会议。crunchbase.com 是从 TechCrunch 剥离出来的数据检索和服务业务。 * Sarah Lacy，美国科技记者和作家，曾在 Business Week 和 TechCrunch 担任记者，2011 年创办科技博客网站 PandoDaily（后改名 Pando），曾多次批评硅谷科技公司里的「兄弟会文化」，2019 年宣布出售。 * The Verge，成立于 2011 的一家美国科技媒体网站，提供新闻、产品评论、播客、视频等内容。与 Vox Media 同属一个公司，Recode 被收购后内容并入 The Verge。 * Recode，成立于 2014 年的科技博客，由《华尔街日报》旗下科技博客 AllthingsD 的核心团队创办，包括莫博士，Kara Swisher。首轮融资估值达 2000万-3000 万美元，2015 年宣布被 Vox Media 收购。 * Kara Swisher，与莫博士一起在 AllthingsD 工作后创办 Recode，Recode 出售给 Vox Media 之后，目前主要为《纽约时报》撰写科技评论，制作播客节目「Recode Decode」等。 * GigaOm，由 Om Malik 创立于 2006 年，专注报道科技行业和举办活动。2015 年停止运营，保留数据服务业务。Om Malik 目前是 The New Yorker 专栏作家，投资人。 * BuzzFeed，2006 年由 Jonah Peretti 创办的新闻聚合网站，从数百个新闻博客获取订阅源，便于用户浏览当天网上的最热门事件。2011 年邀请时政报道编辑 Ben Smith 加入组建深度报道团队，2018 年其国际报道获得新闻行业最高奖普利策奖提名。 * John Carreyou，《华尔街日报》记者，2015 年发布揭露硅谷创业公司 Theranos 骗局的报道，后被拍摄成纪录片、整理成书（中文版书名《坏血》）。 * The Information，2013 年由前《华尔街日报》记者 Jessica Lessin 创办，采用会员付费模式。2016 年开设驻香港办公室，相对更关注中国创业公司和生态的报道。 * Stratechery，Ben Thompson 创办于 2014 年。Ben Thompson 曾在苹果、微软工作，后撰写硅谷公司的商业分析汇集成博客，分免费版和会员付费版，目前除了文字还制作播客节目 Exponent。 相关节目 一路晋升到c-level！这名华人如何在美国打造爆款媒体？上 (https://36kr.com/p/5245438) 下 (https://36kr.com/p/5245879) BGM * Back to the Old House - White Bones * Get to Know You- Cody Francis * At the End of It-Donell Mase 原创文章，作者：「声动活泼」。 微博：@声动活泼 微信公众号：@声动活泼 网站：shengfm.cn

Siguiendo la predicción de Jonah Peretti, Vox Media anuncia la adquisición de The New York Media, propietario de The New York Magazine, para crear un grupo digital aún más poderoso y con propiedades de nicho. Descubre aquí los racionales de esa decisión. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Flora Paul Flora Paul developed an analytics practice she calls "editorial intelligence" during her time at BuzzFeed Brasil. She firmly believes that writers and content strategists "can be friends with numbers and data." Flora and I talked about: UOL, the huge internet portal in Brazil, her current employer her prior work at BuzzFeed Brasil how she came to coin the term "content intelligence" - which arose from the culture of data at BuzzFeed and her curiosity about the numbers behind their editorial work how she transformed "boring data into cool content" - turning her data discoveries into editorial goals the origins of her curiosity about numbers the importance of understanding what did and didn't work with BuzzFeed branded content how she used tools like Looker, a SQL tool that let her dive deeper into her editorial data the custom publishing tools developed by BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti and publisher Dao Nguyen how Looker dashboards helped her share with her team the editorial insights she uncovered how she mixed and matched content formats like listicles, quizzes, and popular internet memes with different topics (like food, lifestyle, etc.) to generate large numbers of editorial ideas how BuzzFeed's reliance on "relatable content" may have been responsible for the rapid growth of the popularity of quizzes in Brazil her transition from "staff writer" to "content strategist" at BuzzFeed - and how her "annoying Type A personality" may have been a factor :) how content formulas helped shape BuzzFeed's success - but also how the editorial staff balanced that dynamic with long-form content and innovative story formats the differences between "data journalism" and her data-backed work as a content strategist her optimism about, and hope for the future of, content strategy and editorial intelligence her advice for writers: "We can be friends with numbers and data." "Numbers are on our side." Flora's Bio Flora Paul is head of content strategy at UOL, the largest Brazilian online content and digital services company. With a bachelor's degree in journalism and working for print and digital media for over a decade, Paul was a reporter for MTV and Glamour magazine before developing content strategy for BuzzFeed Brasil. Video Here’s the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/tBLiqODCFXE Transcript Larry: Hi everyone. Welcome to episode number 43 of the Content Strategy Insights podcast. I'm really happy today to have with us Flora Paul. Flora's down in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She works currently for an outfit called UOL which is ... I'll let Flora tell you more about that, because it sounds kind of like AOL meets GoDaddy or something like that. Can you tell me more about UOL? Flora: It's one of the largest and oldest portals in Brazil. I remember when I was using dial up internet in 1997, we would use you UOL to connect to the dial up. It's pretty old in a way, but they really kept up with what was happening in the internet board, and they're really trying to focus to gain more millennial views, so they're really trying to be up today. Larry: That's so interesting because when I look at this site, I see a combination of AOL and Yahoo, which have completely lost relevance in the U.S. They're just gone, but UOL is huge. I think, they're the fifth most visited website in Brazil. Is that correct? Flora: Yes, I think that's right. It's huge, and the numbers are pretty close to Facebook and Google actually. Larry: Interesting. Flora: It's a huge portal. Usually, people would just go to UOL to know if their internet connection is running. It's like that kind of site. Everyone knows it. Larry: Again, back to the AOL. I remember back then people thought of AOL as the internet. Flora: Exactly. Larry: It sounds like that's how UOL is. Interesting. Recently, you were with a cooler job, well, I mean,

Flora Paul Flora Paul developed an analytics practice she calls "editorial intelligence" during her time at BuzzFeed Brasil. She firmly believes that writers and content strategists "can be friends with numbers and data." Flora and I talked about: UOL, the huge internet portal in Brazil, her current employer her prior work at BuzzFeed Brasil how she came to coin the term "content intelligence" - which arose from the culture of data at BuzzFeed and her curiosity about the numbers behind their editorial work how she transformed "boring data into cool content" - turning her data discoveries into editorial goals the origins of her curiosity about numbers the importance of understanding what did and didn't work with BuzzFeed branded content how she used tools like Looker, a SQL tool that let her dive deeper into her editorial data the custom publishing tools developed by BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti and publisher Dao Nguyen how Looker dashboards helped her share with her team the editorial insights she uncovered how she mixed and matched content formats like listicles, quizzes, and popular internet memes with different topics (like food, lifestyle, etc.) to generate large numbers of editorial ideas how BuzzFeed's reliance on "relatable content" may have been responsible for the rapid growth of the popularity of quizzes in Brazil her transition from "staff writer" to "content strategist" at BuzzFeed - and how her "annoying Type A personality" may have been a factor :) how content formulas helped shape BuzzFeed's success - but also how the editorial staff balanced that dynamic with long-form content and innovative story formats the differences between "data journalism" and her data-backed work as a content strategist her optimism about, and hope for the future of, content strategy and editorial intelligence her advice for writers: "We can be friends with numbers and data." "Numbers are on our side." Flora's Bio Flora Paul is head of content strategy at UOL, the largest Brazilian online content and digital services company. With a bachelor's degree in journalism and working for print and digital media for over a decade, Paul was a reporter for MTV and Glamour magazine before developing content strategy for BuzzFeed Brasil. Video Here's the video version of our conversation: https://youtu.be/tBLiqODCFXE Transcript Larry: Hi everyone. Welcome to episode number 43 of the Content Strategy Insights podcast. I'm really happy today to have with us Flora Paul. Flora's down in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She works currently for an outfit called UOL which is ... I'll let Flora tell you more about that, because it sounds kind of like AOL meets GoDaddy or something like that. Can you tell me more about UOL? Flora: It's one of the largest and oldest portals in Brazil. I remember when I was using dial up internet in 1997, we would use you UOL to connect to the dial up. It's pretty old in a way, but they really kept up with what was happening in the internet board, and they're really trying to focus to gain more millennial views, so they're really trying to be up today. Larry: That's so interesting because when I look at this site, I see a combination of AOL and Yahoo, which have completely lost relevance in the U.S. They're just gone, but UOL is huge. I think, they're the fifth most visited website in Brazil. Is that correct? Flora: Yes, I think that's right. It's huge, and the numbers are pretty close to Facebook and Google actually. Larry: Interesting. Flora: It's a huge portal. Usually, people would just go to UOL to know if their internet connection is running. It's like that kind of site. Everyone knows it. Larry: Again, back to the AOL. I remember back then people thought of AOL as the internet. Flora: Exactly. Larry: It sounds like that's how UOL is. Interesting. Recently, you were with a cooler job, well, I mean,

Show #233 | Guest: Jill Abramson | Show Summary: One of the news media's most qualified voices examines critical information battlegrounds: old media vs. new, documented veracity vs. clickbait. Jill Abramson follows four companies—The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and VICE— over a decade of disruption and radical adjustment in her new book, Merchants of Truth. The two venerable newspapers wrestle the challenge of an aging readership; the two upstarts confront a ballooning but fickle audience of millennials. She profiles the defenders of the legacy presses and the larger-than-life characters behind the new speed-driven media competitors. Those players include Jeff Bezos and Marty Baron, Arthur Sulzberger and Dean Baquet, Jonah Peretti, and Shane Smith as well as their reporters and anxious readers. What does all this portend for the discriminating reader?

BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti sits down with Brian Stelter to discuss the "bright future" he sees for the company, despite recent layoffs and other changes. He describes the internet as a "flaming dumpster fire" but also a source of "joy and truth," and says companies like BuzzFeed have to keep "fighting to make a great internet." Stelter also asks about the unionization drive at BuzzFeed News and Peretti's commitment to the news division.

The Far Left Is Tearing Buzzfeed Apart, Staffer Leaks Audio of CEO. In the leak the CEO Jonah Peretti is talking about how leaks caused them to speed up the layoff process and caused undue stress for the staff. In a hilarious twist someone actually leaked a recording of him asking staff not to leak meetings.But the people coming at Buzzfeed are not conservatives its the far left. The leftists are now accusing Buzzfeed of mostly targeting people of color and other marginalized writers in the layoff process.Many of these leftist writers wrote on social justice and feminist issue as well pushing the idea that Buzzfeed is getting rid of the overly ideological or subgroup writers.Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

My guest today is Tal Shachar, the Chief Digital Offer of Immortals, a global eSports organization in Los Angeles where he leads consumer-facing operations. At Immortals, Tal is working to build the most engaged and inclusive community in eSports. Before joining Immortals, Tal lead strategy and growth for BuzzFeed studios, focusing on growing audience and monetizing Buzzfeed’s intellectual property across channels. Before that, Tal worked for an independent media holding company called the Chernin group, and worked with companies like Barstool Sports, the Action Network, and Headspace. And finally, Tal writes for Media REDEF, where he analyzes the media and technology industries. I can confidently say Tal’s articles are some of the best articles ever written on the media business. We devote this entire episode to the future of media. We talk about Netflix, Disney, Amazon, HBO and the changing definitions of scale in the media business. We explore the present and future of niche media and discuss the emergence of food culture on the internet. Then, we talk about some of Tal’s craziest ideas like the differences between Tiles and Feeds, why Hollywood is like an API for Silicon Valley, an how fast feedback loops between digital and physical reality are changing the world. SUBSCRIBE TO MY “MONDAY MUSINGS” NEWSLETTER TO KEEP UP WITH THE PODCAST. Show Notes LINKS: Find Tal online: Twitter Linkedin People mentioned: Ben Thompson Reed Hastings Matthew Ball Benedict Evans Ryan Murphy Ze Frank Peter Chernin Jonah Peretti Seth Godin Fred Wilson Evan Spiegel (my episode with Evan here) Other mentions: Aggregation theory Bytedance   SHOW TOPICS 0:35 - The constraints in the past regarding the limited choice people had. Comparing this to now where we have numerous ways to choose various things and how we want them. How this relates to communities emerging - “With limitless distribution and limitless choice, we can find exactly what appeals to us, including other people.” 5:35 - The distinction between a push-discovery and a pull-discovery (having something pushed onto you versus choosing and being drawn to something). Some examples of these. Also, detailing passive and active forms of content consumption. 8:11 - How advertising and subscription business models tie into push versus pull theory (most television being 50/50 split). The passive and active aspects of media, as well. Going into Netflix’s strategy and scaling, and discussing why it doesn’t have advertising or sports. How being at scale has changed and what this means. 20:20 - What some of the bottlenecks are regarding sports media and television. Also, what sports television may look like in the future. 23:10 - Tiles versus feeds. How passive and active consumption ties into both of these (for example, Facebook feeds much more suited for passive consumption). Tile-based consumption being more suited to active consumption. 27:15 - How Disney, Amazon, and HBO use much more different strategies compared to Netflix and why they do this. Going in-depth into their specific strategies. 31:50 - How Tal’s prediction with content leading straight to purchase and how this has largely come to be true. Also, how parts of this prediction have been wrong. Discussion on and examples of focusing at the top of the funnel, and then focusing solely at the bottom of the funnel. A bit on how online shopping may evolve to begin having a similar experience that in-store shopping might have. 40:49 - Who has a structural advantage in the world and some examples of these advantages. How the type of product will be better suited for online distribution versus a more physical distribution. A future increase in the number of direct consumer brands. 44:31 - How the goal is not to pay the least amount but to pay the most for your content. How we’ve gone wrong in terms of how we think about this. Paying for the best content, to then monetize it at the highest rate, and then return to paying for the content again is really what’s going to matter. For passive content, the model is different. 47:19 - How Tal sees Hollywood changing in terms of risk and reward. How Netflix ties into this and detailing that. Discussing the nature of music and the monetary aspect of top-tier content. 54:00 - Discussing media-consumption and how the demand may not be increasing but the supply is always increasing. The opportunity-cost arising. What begins to shift when there is no longer any attention left to give to media. The possible integration of companies using facial expression data from cameras to create even more accessible and efficient data. 58:45 - The idea of Hollywood as an API for Silicon Valley. Some discussion on this idea and how companies use Hollywood as an API. 1:03:34 - If we go back to the 1960s, how music mainly ran the culture at the time. Now, how travel is a shelling point for culture, for people to meet, and in many other sectors. Some examples of this with food, as well. 1:06:54 - What Tal learned from Peter Chernin and some unique skills that Peter has. 1:08:29 - Why Tal has watched almost every romantic comedy. Some discussion on what makes them unique and on what they can teach us with storytelling. 1:10:55 - John Malone and what he does really well. Why Tal admires him and why John might have the unique perspective that he does. 1:13:08 - What does LeBron James coming to Los Angeles say about Los Angeles, LeBron, and for the increasing importance of entertainment. 1:15:05 - What stands out to Tal regarding Ze Frank and Jonah Peretti. 1:16:15 - How the internet has increased our ability to share information more easily and effectively. Some discussion on how Buzzfeed has capitalized on that shift and the competition that comes with sharing content. 1:19:35 - How Tal thinks about the trade-off Seth Godin-style daily blog, couple hundred words, versus pouring your heart and soul into an article. Frequency and consistency discussed, as well. (articles mentioned listed above) 1:21:54 - Tal’s perspective on Evan Spiegel and some thoughts on Snapchat. What Snapchat does well and has struggled with. A bit of discussion on what’s to come in the future regarding social media. 1:27:50 - How communication has changed over time from speech to pictures and words. Thoughts on this and previous forms of entertainment compared to now. 1:32:10 - Some of the two-way feedback loops we’re currently seeing. Distribution-based content impacting the real-world, then coming back around to impacting the distribution of that content again. Also, discussing the increasing number of people that are finding trends and capitalizing on them. A bit on the uncertainty caused by these ever-increasing tight feedback loops. 1:38:31 - Why Tal is so excited about media and why he devotes his life to it. How powerful media can be for enriching our daily lives, meeting people, understanding people, and with learning. “There’s no other industry that sits at the nexus of culture in society like media does.”   SUBSCRIBE TO MY “MONDAY MUSINGS” NEWSLETTER TO KEEP UP WITH THE PODCAST.

This week, Richard Reeves, the Managing Director of the UK's Association of Online Publishers (AOP) talks to us about the progress on their Ad Quality Charter, what the lack of barrier to entry to publishing online means for premium online publishers, and how Facebook and Google engage with the association's member publishers. He also explains what he made of Jonah Peretti's suggestion for a mega-merger of online publishers. In the news round-up we discuss the future of news on smart speakers, the reported failure to launch of YouTube Red, and give a plug to The Correspondent. Merry Christmas everybody!

Writer and journalism professor Anjali Khosla joins Heather and Emily to talk about how we got this fraught relationship between tech platforms and news publishers. They cover the latest Facebook bombshell(s), Jonah Peretti's plans for digital media conglomeration, Anjali's experience as one of the first social media editors, and how future decisions from social media platforms will to shape the viability of journalism. They attempt to end on a positive note several times to mixed results. 

Buzzfeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti talks about profitability versus growth, his company's relationship with Facebook, and more.

On this week's episode of Media Voices, Esther interview's the Guardian's director of philanthropic & strategic partnerships Rachel White about finding ways of funding independent journalism. In the news round-up, the crew of the good ship Media Voices discuss Google's plans to fix local news, an uptick in trust in traditional media in the UK and discuss Jonah Peretti insisting that everything is fine at BuzzFeed. We're reading: • 'I write fake news', via the Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/26/experience-i-write-fake-news • 'Never get high on your own supply - why social media bosses don't use social media' - via the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/23/never-get-high-on-your-own-supply-why-social-media-bosses-dont-use-social-media • 'Facebook's trust survey isn't as simple as it sounds' - via Nieman Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/facebooks-trust-survey-which-will-help-determine-news-feed-ranking-is-two-questions-but-its-not-as-simple-as-it-sounds/

It takes a lot of hard work to become an effective leader. In this Master Class episode of "Success! How I Did It," top executives and tech CEOs reveal their secrets to being a successful leader in any industry. Buzzfeed’s Jonah Peretti, Lyft’s John Zimmer, Fox News’ Dana Perino, and more share their insights and best tips.

In 2001, when most of us had no idea what it meant to "go viral," Jonah Peretti shared an email prank among his friends — and saw it spread to millions. That began his fascination with how information spreads, and set him on the path to launch two of the most powerful media organizations of the Internet age: The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. Recorded live in New York City.

Jonah Peretti is the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, a digital media empire that started as an Instant Messenger bot. The bot spotted trending links across the web and sent them to groups of friends. Peretti grew that into a $1.5 billion media company that's on the verge of going public, and he's turned down giant acquisition offers along the way. Before BuzzFeed, Peretti cofounded The Huffington Post with Andrew Brietbart and others. In this episode, Business Insider's US Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell asks him about both experiences, media industry trends, startup advice, and timely news, like the Trump-Russia dossier that BuzzFeed was first to publish. We also got the story behind a lewd Ivanka Trump tweet Jonah wrote that went viral.

Jonah Peretti, CEO of Buzzfeed, joins Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures to discuss viral media, his days at Huffington Post, founding Buzzfeed, and how fake news affected the election and continues to shape the media landscape.

Matthias and Jordan are back this week to chat with Ryan Moy (@alwaysonoffense) about the future of the GOP and whether or not it can find "basic values as a party" and rebuild after the election.  Terrible Opinions Ryan is apparently very, very particular when it comes to his Halloween candy. Jordan is upset that Jonah Peretti's bizarre tweet about Ivanka Trump is only one more example of the media industry tossing ethics out the window to get attention. Matthias thinks "journalists" like Kevin Robillard of Politico who take decent people out of context and sic Twitter trolls on them should be (metaphorically) burned at the stake.  Consultants! Reince! Dumpster fire! Analysis, predictions, fears and hopes blend in our take on what the post-election conservative landscape will look like. Matthias really wants to know who exactly will be responsible for steering the GOP after Nov. 8. Is it enough for the GOP to replace Reince? Are those conversations already happening and is a plan for the party's future after Donald Trump in the works? Ryan discusses the possibility that Carly Fiorina will be tapped as the new GOP chair and details what she would bring to the table, while Jordan speculates on what the most powerful combination would be for 2020. We debate whether or not the alt-right will continue to infect the conservative movement after the election.  Predictions Matthias depresses everyone with the prediction that the media will continue to give the alt-right oxygen by covering white supremacist events and otherwise bringing attention to their cause. Jordan points out that Trump's reaction if he loses the election could determine whether or not the media continues to make a profit from that kind of coverage (if he goes on that long vacation as promised and disappears from public view, not so much). She predicts that most of the GOP will wake up after the election and attempt to shock everyone with how much Trump never happened. Ryan predicts that Trump TV will launch and will be a fairly successful enterprise. 

On this live-recorded episode from INBOUND 2015, Jonah Peretti, founder of BuzzFeed & The Huffington Post, joins us to chat about BuzzFeed's insane growth and how viral content spreads.

BuzzFeed is one of the most important and successful new media companies, tying together deeply reported impact journalism with content optimized for the digital age. Peter Kafka talks with founder and CEO Jonah Peretti, and later on, The Verge's Lauren Goode discusses the Apple event and Jason Del Rey dishes about mobile payments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BuzzFeed's business and editorial leads talk about doing cat photos and "high-impact journalism", as well as being dominant on a variety of different platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Awl's John Herrman and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti swung by our studio for a Very Special Episode this week. We asked them about the future of the internet. Like websites, what's the deal? Is everything going to be Facebook in the future? Is Myspace ever coming back? All that... and more!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonah Peretti is building BuzzFeed to “inform, inspire and entertain” in a world where news and entertainment is increasingly passed around on social networks and consumed on smartphones. Chris Dixon, who is on the board of BuzzFeed as part of Andreessen Horowitz's recent investment in the startup, sat down with Peretti to talk about building a media company from scratch. If editorial success is driven by digital word-of-mouth, and mountains of data about what people like to read and watch, what does Peretti do differently? Why do BuzzFeed's lists work so well? Does video finally make financial sense? And why, even if it's a traffic monster now, is Peretti not religious about any particular format -- including lists. (For more on Dixon's take on the media business, and BuzzFeed's “full stack” approach check out this recent post: http://cdixon.org/2014/08/10/buzzfeed/) The views expressed here are those of the individual AH Capital Management, L.L.C. (“a16z”) personnel quoted and are not the views of a16z or its affiliates. Certain information contained in here has been obtained from third-party sources, including from portfolio companies of funds managed by a16z. While taken from sources believed to be reliable, a16z has not independently verified such information and makes no representations about the enduring accuracy of the information or its appropriateness for a given situation. This content is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should consult your own advisers as to those matters. References to any securities or digital assets are for illustrative purposes only, and do not constitute an investment recommendation or offer to provide investment advisory services. Furthermore, this content is not directed at nor intended for use by any investors or prospective investors, and may not under any circumstances be relied upon when making a decision to invest in any fund managed by a16z. (An offering to invest in an a16z fund will be made only by the private placement memorandum, subscription agreement, and other relevant documentation of any such fund and should be read in their entirety.) Any investments or portfolio companies mentioned, referred to, or described are not representative of all investments in vehicles managed by a16z, and there can be no assurance that the investments will be profitable or that other investments made in the future will have similar characteristics or results. A list of investments made by funds managed by Andreessen Horowitz (excluding investments and certain publicly traded cryptocurrencies/ digital assets for which the issuer has not provided permission for a16z to disclose publicly) is available at https://a16z.com/investments/. Charts and graphs provided within are for informational purposes solely and should not be relied upon when making any investment decision. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The content speaks only as of the date indicated. Any projections, estimates, forecasts, targets, prospects, and/or opinions expressed in these materials are subject to change without notice and may differ or be contrary to opinions expressed by others. Please see https://a16z.com/disclosures for additional important information.

On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the week's politics, BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti and artist Cory Arcangel talk about their new book "Working On My Novel" with Ian Steadman, and CityMetric Editors Jonn Elledge and Barbara Speed go back to basics to ask: what exactly is a city? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Inventor of the internet, brother of podcaster Chelsea Peretti, and self-proclaimed "empathetic person" - JONAH PERETTI is in Hollywood and in the studio for this treasured ep. A self-hating Jew calls in! People who ask for a topic get hung up on. Chelsea

Inventor of the internet, brother of podcaster Chelsea Peretti, and self-proclaimed "empathetic person" - JONAH PERETTI is in Hollywood and in the studio for this treasured ep. A self-hating Jew calls in! People who ask for a topic get hung up on. Chelsea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices