A slick documentary about the history of Breitbart and it’s founder, who died in 2012 of a heart attack, directed by Andrew Marcus.
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Adblock arms race
„The fundamental problem with advertising as a business model though, is that customers don’t like it unless it is very unobtrusive, and the industry is largely incapable of self control in that respect.”
Exporting Soft Culture
Germans are great at exporting heavy machinery, yet lackluster at exporting soft culture in form of professional, news media publications in English.
Quartz: Back to the Open Web
Quartz, a new digital business news portal with a mobile focus, is going back to the roots with a global view. No pay walls. No hub mongering. No eyeball ego. Yes to Wordpress. Yes to same window links. Yes to focused topics and HTML5.
Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users
Paywalls were an attempt to preserve the old mass+mass model after a transition to digital distribution. With so few readers willing to pay, and therefore so few readers to advertise to, paywalls instead turned newspapers into a niche+niche business.