“Big is relative. Yes, the digital startups have gotten big by publisher standards — but they’re small compared to Google and Facebook. Those companies have formed an effective duopoly, taking in more than 40 percent of the still-fast-growing digital ad business in the U.S. (and probably more in Euro…”— Ken Dcot, niemanlab.org
“In the world being born, video content trumps text, and more mere scribes, of all ages and of all digital skill levels, are finding themselves unwanted. The ad tail is wagging the new digital news dog, at a quickening pace.”— Ken Doctor, niemanlab.org
“Remember the Pew study that found that more than 5,000 new, fairly decently paying journalism jobs had been created by digital news startups? I often contrasted that increase with the great losses suffered by the local and regional newspaper industry. Those losses now stand at more than 25,000 acros…”— Ken Doctor, niemanlab.org