Making It in the Online Journalism Biz (Robert Wright & Matthew Yglesias)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Bob and Matt reflect on the early days of Bloggingheads ... The decline of print and the rise of blogging ... How Matt made blogging work for him ... The shifting incentives of digital publishing ... Matt: Filter bubbles are more real than the research seems to suggest ... Bob: To succeed in modern journalism, it helps to like being hated ... The positive side of social media ... Slippage between news and opinion at the NYT ... The worrisome incentives of Twitter for academics ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.9	Hi, Matt.
0:10.3	Hey, Bob.
0:11.0	How you doing?
0:11.9	Doing great.
0:12.4	How are you?
0:13.4	Couldn't be better.
0:14.5	Let me introduce this.
0:15.3	I'm Robert Wright.
0:16.0	You are Matthew Iglesias, journalist, prolific generator of takes, publisher of the slow, boring newsletter,
0:23.4	that's not a judgment. It's the actual name of the newsletter, which we'll talk about later.
0:30.2	But first, I want to talk about another branding issue. If all goes according to plan,
0:54.1	then by the time this is posted, which will be a little more than a week after we're taping it, the YouTube channel that this appears on will no longer be called bloggingheads.tv, a brand that is 17 years old.
0:59.4	I started Blung Heads TV in 2005 with Mickey Kouse and Greg Dingell.
1:03.9	Rather, it will be called non-zero.
1:06.9	And by the way, that's the name of the... That's my brand.
1:07.7	It's becoming, I guess, more so.
1:09.6	That's the name of the newsletter I publish.
1:12.9	I would venture to say it's not a less inviting title than slow boring, but we can get into all this.
1:19.6	And if people have been listening to this on the Wright Show podcast feed in the past,
1:26.1	that will be called non-zero or strictly speaking if you're looking for
1:30.8	it in an alphabetically arranged list, Robert writes non-zero. So it'll be right before all those
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