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Semafor / Reed Albergotti / Feb 7, 2024
“When you bring in a bunch of journalists, it goes against what makes blogging great — that you get to hear personal experiences rather than reported experiences. And the economics just didn’t work at all because it’s expensive to write about things that you don’t already know. That’s why journalists have to be paid a lot to get a high quality piece up. The reporting is really time intensive.” (Laura Hazard Owen wrote about “the long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium” in 2019.) SS
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