Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.

So hey, it's Friday. We haven't posted an episode on Friday before.

But as you guys will know, don't know from our intros.

We have been consistently promoting the Lincoln Network where I work

and the Lincoln Network's reboot conference where Saga and I are going to be hosting

a bunch of real interesting conversations on November 6th, 9th and 10th.

So in honor of the conference and do a little promotion and a little work that we're going to be doing,

we are going to be promoting and airing bonus episodes of the realignment for the next few Fridays.

So this is a good sort of chance for us to promote the conference and Lincoln's work,

but also to try out different forms of content that we could see what you guys are all really interested in.

So for this week's conversation, I'm speaking with Jared Dicker,

who's the vice president of commercial technology and development at the Washington Post.

So what's so interesting about Jared is that he's worked in basically every single sphere of the media that we sort of tried to focus on,

especially as that same industry goes through a lot of different transitions.

So he started as a journalist covering the music industry.

He then went to the Coffinton Post before it sold to AOL.

And then he spent a bunch of time working in the sort of ad tech space.

And he then actually led a company focused on using the blockchain to impact the news industry.

Now he's at the Washington Post.

So he's really got a great background and perspective across all different aspects of the industry.

And what we're basically talking about today is his interest in the future of the way media companies are structured in a time when there's always different options for creators.

We are sort of seeing sub stack, the idea of going independent from sort of a major publication like the New York Times or New York magazine.

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