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Is the media industry entering yet another downturn?
After a year of post-pandemic optimism, everyone’s starting to feel pessimistic about media businesses again.
2 min readMay 5, 2022
Editor’s note: Hi there Medium readers! I’m Simon Owens and I’m a journalist who writes about the media industry and Creator Economy. Below is my weekly roundup of links to industry news. Enjoy!
Is the media industry entering yet another downturn? [The Rebooting]
After a year of post-pandemic optimism, everyone’s starting to feel pessimistic about media businesses again.
How a serial media entrepreneur launched a new MVP [Simon Owens]
Alexis Grant managed to get a New York Times write-up shortly after her new media venture launched. It took a lot of planning in advance to attract that kind of attention right out of the gate.
The Athletic will finally embrace advertising [Front Office Sports]
First Netflix, now The Athletic: companies that once claimed that they’d never introduce advertising are starting to go back on those promises.
