Tech Is Eating Media. Now What?

news operations  are... losing a degree of ownership over their audiences... the number of people they reach is potentially greater than ever [but] through much larger third parties... coming to terms with just how directly their industry’s business model is coming into competition with that of their new, and much larger, partners... The tech industry is now in a position, at least for a time, to create and control the set of incentives that will define the next great news organizations, whether they already exist or start up tomorrow... Coexistence on centrally managed commercial platforms that control both content distribution and revenue might make old ideas about editorial independence and conflict disclosure seem quaint. - Tech Is Eating Media. Now What? — Medium