Some Thoughts on Digital Media and the Future of the Newspaper Business
This week Business Insider poked fun at the New York Times 's latest discussion of how hard people in successful online media companies work . We poked fun because the New York Times never seems to portray the energy, excitement, industriousness, and intensity of this business--our business--in a positive light. For example, the NYT never seems to note that this is a dynamic new industry that is creating jobs and revitalizing a trade that has become fat and happy and set in its ways (mainstream media). Rather, the NYT portrays the industry as some sort of digital slave labor camp--focusing on online media manager heart attacks, "burnout", and employees reduced to tears at their desks. And we get tired of seeing companies like ours portrayed like that. Not only because we love what we do but because we think we've created a dynamic, exciting workplace--one in which talented, motivated people succeed and hard work, team-work, c...