“The Washington Post Enters Its Amazon Era

Data and efficiency are destined to shape the paper’s future. Whatever that means.”

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/washington-post-enters-its-amazon-era.php?mc_cid=645b9c3450

The Washington Post enters its Amazon era.

Data and efficiency are destined to shape the paper’s future. Whatever that means.

Columbia Journalism Review
“The New York Times’ recent report on the Bezos-driven firing of more than three hundred and fifty journalists and the destruction of the Post’s institutional credibility recalls a classic genre: Overconfident Boss Who Believes a News Publication Is a Widget Factory.”

“These executives are not morons, of course.”

I’m gonna need a second source on that…

@samlitzinger I asked ChatGPT, and it confirms they are not.

(Unless I want them to be, in which case, fine, dumbest people who ever lived.)

@samlitzinger democracy was strangled in plain sight