I hate to say this because I care about journalism, I went to journalism school, my parents were journalists,

but I also work at Snapchat and I understand this.

News can feel like homework to a lot of people. In addition to being sad and worrisome and giving

you anxiety, it can feel tedious to sit down if you are an everyday American and read a 10,000 word magazine article or read

you know 800 words of black and white text on a page.

It's not just CNN competing against MS NBC and Fox.

It is CNN competing against Roblox

and competing against Tik-talk, etc.

Call it dopamine, call it a short attention span or whatever.

Yeah.

But it's not something that people feel like is essential to their everyday lives. I'm Max Fisher and you all just heard this week's guest Peter Hamby host of

Good Luck America on Snapchat and a founding partner at Puck News. You've probably

noticed that the media industry has had a terrifying last few weeks the LA Times laid off 20% of their newsroom awful max

insider laid off 8% of theirs and the messenger a digital media startup launched less than a year ago

announced that they were

shutting down completely leaving its staff of 300 out of work. This is on top of

2023's media contraction which saw layoffs at Vice, NPR, Vox, the Washington Post, and the shuttering of newsrooms at

Jezebel and Buzzfeet News.

This is a wild stat.

Since the beginning of 2023, more than 20,000 journalism jobs have been eliminated.

I know.

I didn't realize it was that high.

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