Newsonomics: Sketching In the Details of Josh Topolsky’s New Outline

Don’t call Josh Topolsky’s just-announced The Outline “a New Yorker for millennials.” Or do. The 38-year-old digital media veteran of Engadget, The Verge, and Bloomberg can see it, and explain it, both ways. I asked the CEO and editor-in-chief of the just-announced site, launching in the fall, ...

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Newsonomics: With New Roadblocks for Digital News Sites, What Happens Next?

At BuzzFeed, a 32 percent miss in 2015 revenue and a halving of its 2016 revenue target, according to the Financial Times. At Mashable, a massive layoff after the company failed to sell itself. At Yahoo, an upcoming sale of its news-producing assets, portending great uncertainty for journalists ...

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What Are They Thinking: Chris Altchek’s Three Magic Words: VideoCentric Millennials Company

Chris Altchek doesn’t need the whole elevator ride up to Mic.com’s 10th floor downtown New York office to give you his pitch. What’s Mic, whose name is often pronounced as an Irish nickname? It’s a videocentric millennials-serving digital news company. Those would-be magic words — millennials, ...

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