E1115: Emergency Pod! Collapsing state of media corporations, thoughts on Casey Newton, Andrew Sullivan & Bari Weiss departures, top talent leaving for Substack & more
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Referenced in this episode:
Platformer by Casey Newton:
https://www.platformer.news
The Weekly Dish by Andrew Sullivan:
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com
New York Times Article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/business/media/substack-newsletters-journalists.html
OneZero Casey Newton Interview:
https://onezero.medium.com/casey-newton-on-leaving-the-verge-for-substack-and-the-future-of-tech-journalism-974a646375fa
Bari Weiss Resignation Letter:
https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's an emergency pod. This week in startups. It turns out all journalists are quitting their jobs and starting newsletters. |
| 0:11.0 | This is an emergency pod. The media sector is collapsing. |
| 0:15.2 | We'll be right back to talk all about it here on this week and startups. |
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| 0:42.2 | Hey everybody, welcome to an emergency pod. |
| 0:45.0 | We're going to talk a little bit about the state of journalism today, |
| 0:48.0 | which is having its struggles obviously, and we are seeing some of the top journalists leave |
| 0:55.7 | their top publications to do email newsletters podcasts and to go out on their own |
| 1:01.7 | and why are they leaving and what impact this will have on the space we're going to talk about |
| 1:06.7 | today. |
| 1:07.7 | You may remember back on episode 1016, that was our 1,000th 16th episode. |
| 1:13.5 | God, I've been doing this for a long time. |
| 1:15.0 | Substack, co-founder, and CEO Chris Best. |
| 1:18.0 | And this was back in January of this year. |
| 1:19.5 | I asked him, |
| 1:20.0 | when would journalists be leaving major publications? Let's cut to the clip. |
| 1:25.4 | At what point do you think this becomes so viable |
| 1:29.0 | that Vox, Buzzfeed, New York Times, Wall Street Journal Journal lose writers to this because I'm watching |
| 1:35.1 | all these Vox writers and BuzzFeed writers starting stuff on your platform. |
| 1:40.5 | Have any of those publications said Iksnaae on the newsletters on the side thing? |
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