“Journalists go to some lengths to construct symbolic boundaries that allow them to incorporate metrics into their work while preserving their professional self-conception.”
For the price, the Times is getting one of the real bootstrapped success stories in the past decade of digital media — and a toehold in a growing e-commerce revenue stream.
Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy, saying it cannot pay the $140 million awarded to Hulk Hogan in a lawsuit funded by Peter Thiel. The company is putting itself up for sale, with an offer already in from Ziff Davis.
Rather than create geographic diversity, digital news has pushed the industry into a few tight clusters. That has real impacts on the journalism we get.
Benton, Joshua. "The game of concentration: The Internet is pushing the American news business to New York and the coasts." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 25 Mar. 2016. Web. 21 Dec. 2024.
APA
Benton, J. (2016, Mar. 25). The game of concentration: The Internet is pushing the American news business to New York and the coasts. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/the-game-of-concentration-the-internet-is-pushing-the-american-news-business-to-new-york-and-the-coasts/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "The game of concentration: The Internet is pushing the American news business to New York and the coasts." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 25, 2016. Accessed December 21, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/the-game-of-concentration-the-internet-is-pushing-the-american-news-business-to-new-york-and-the-coasts/.
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