“Havas is keeping a super low profile this year: The agency is sending junior talent to bring back takeaways for the office at its annual SXSW Shareback at the end of the month.”— Grace Caffyn, digiday.com
“Just me and my depression, out looking for some lipstick to make us feel better while Call Your Girlfriend plays on.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“Conspiracy theories are corrosive in society at large. When they dictate national policy, they can be lethal.”— Dan Rather, facebook.com
“The main problem I have with trigger warnings, however, is that I don’t think they’re helpful. I think they’re a cute way of saying, ‘Look here. See? I care about your mental illness. I am enlightened. I’m talking about rape but warning you that I’m doing so.’ It’s saying, ‘I’m putting you in a box…”— Wendy Blacke, medium.com
“It was an awards show. And they won! Why are we even talking about this?”— Ryan Holiday, thoughtcatalog.com
“As a buyer, you cannot place advertising on Google and Facebook, optimize your spend against those audiences, and then port those learnings and that spend to other platforms. It's like Hotel California: you can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!”— Alex Merwin, adage.com
“I was fired for publishing a post on my personal blog about being a transgender journalist exploring what it means to do truthful, ethical journalism with a moral compass in this very complex time.”— Lewis Wallace, medium.com
“I got started by couch surfing and being broke, homeless, without healthcare.”— Tim Pool, reddit.com
“There is no money. Companies are struggling and firing left and right. The companies that are doing well learned that hyperpartisan content shares better than real news.”— Tim Pool, reddit.com
“Fusion told me and many other staff to "side with the audience." Which they clarified as young people being liberal or left leaning so that's the angle we take regardless of the facts. It was not a fun time.”— Tim Pool, reddit.com
“Content is driven by an audience-first mindset (and a strategic underpinning, and purpose) not simply the declaration: We need to do content.”— Teressa Iezzi, campaignlive.com
“The number one rule of the online media business: You can’t profit off the suffering and pain of your employees forever.”— Eve Peyser, jezebel.com
“I’m horrified at the prospect of the most insightful people in their fields thinking, 'That's something I should comment on. Nah, what's the point? Too much downside.'”— Jessica Livingston, foundersatwork.posthaven.com
“There's a lot of concern about "fake news" lately. That is a real problem, but there's also the opposite problem: true things that aren't being said.”— Jessica Livingston, foundersatwork.posthaven.com
“Apple Music said in December that it had more than 20 million subscribers, most of whom pay $9.99 a month; Spotify counted more than 40 million paying subscribers in September.”— Ben Fritz, Hannah Karp, Tripp Mickle, wsj.com
“'On our site we run stuff like, ‘Can you wear white pants when you have your period?’ and I flip out...It’s like, Shoot me in the fucking mouth. It reduces us to bodies, and I hate it. I resent how reduced the world of women is. I resent how small we allow ourselves to be.'”— Cat Marnell, nymag.com
“Then I sweetened the pot with traffic-generating stunts like snorting a huge line of Napoleon Perdis jasmine bath salts off a mirror at the office -- a joke on "bath salts" the drug, then trending worldwide -- while my delighted boss filmed me on her iPhone. A week later, Say gave me a twenty-thousa…”— Cat Marnell, amazon.com
“The age of cable news changed our media distribution model by creating a 24 hour news cycle, which meant finding more information and more analysis (THE SUMMER OF SHARKS!) to keep viewers watching. The age of digital news has changed the distribution model in a much larger way: news consumers have t…”— Daniel Ketchell, medium.com