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Archives: December 2016

“Where our culture of broadcast media once catered to the center and traded on trust, the age of social media thrives on contagious, memetic ideas replicating via network effects.” Erin Pettigrew
“While audiences crave an authentic and fresh video experience, it seems like they’re still getting a lot of pundits and reporters simply talking at them.” Dan Colarusso
“We have only a surface-level appreciation of what motivates people and why they behave in a particular way.” Sarah Marshall
“Journalists, newsrooms and editors will tell stories using the language of messaging apps — stickers, emojis, gifs, vertical video.” Samantha Barry
“Like many concepts that have outlived their usefulness, the wall between business and news was taken to absurd limits, creating a culture of divisiveness that lingers on today.” Tim Griggs
“The drive for scale has made so many places way, way too big. And there just aren’t enough good jobs to keep everyone working, satisfied, succeeding.” Hillary Frey
“Be authentic by being more honest about what you know and what you don’t. It’s a small part of all things we can do, but it’s something we can do now — and frankly should have been doing all along.” Laura E. Davis
“Journalism must shift from claiming to have all the answers to being the ones with the skills to survey the different perspectives, match them to the facts, and connect the two with the worlds that people actually live in.” Sydette Harry
“When you consider how publishers might compete with the platforms going forward, it seems likely it will take the same thoughtful and high-minded approach around advertising that we take now with our content.” M. Scott Havens
“I think when people used to say ‘we have unlimited space online,’ they thought about longer stories with more sidebars. What if we use it to ‘show our work’ instead?” Ken Schwencke