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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Riddle me this...


Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.

You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the podcast at akimbo.link.

To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Why is an orange like a bell?

0:04.3

You know what this means, don't you?

0:07.3

The Riddler.

0:08.8

Right, Chief O'Hara, the Riddler.

0:11.2

That infernal prince of puzzlers who's outwitted this a dozen times.

0:15.0

Konichuah, it's Nick in Fukuoka Japan and this is a special archived episode of akimbo. Yes, it's time for another all Q&A session of akimbo, your favorite podcast. We haven't done one in a long time. We got so many good

0:36.1

questions over the last few weeks. I thought it would be fun to do an all-Q&A episode. We'd love

0:41.9

to get questions from you. If you've got a question, please

0:44.6

visit akimbo. link and press the appropriate button. Okay, here we go.

0:50.4

Hey Seth, Brendan from Eugene, Oregon here.

0:55.5

The internet butchered many things, one of which was newspapers, not journalism per se, but

1:00.5

definitely newspapers.

1:02.2

And with all the corporate purchasing of newspapers and local coverage shrinking and power and corruption going unchecked by the fourth estate,

1:10.0

how might you advise someone who might want to start a nonprofit newspaper most

1:16.1

likely online only in this sort of new age of journalism asking for a friend?

1:21.4

Thank you Seth.

1:22.4

Journalism has taken a big hit.

1:25.8

Some people blame Craig of Craigslist because when Craigslist took off free classifieds for everyone everywhere, the source of most newspapers revenue completely

1:37.6

dried up. In some cases, newspapers were making 110% of all of their profit, meaning it was covering all of their

1:46.4

expenses and then some from classified ads and then they went away. But

1:52.3

newspapers newspapers have a problem,

1:55.0

and their problem is they're expensive to print and deliver.

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