Matt Pearce

And my own battles that I waged over this stuff and that the sort of macroeconomic lens that I bring to these issues is often informed not by how the tech press is doing or how national political news is doing, but specifically how the news is doing in the town that you live in, covering the town that you live in, because that once was the primary way that people got their news. And it

And my own battles that I waged over this stuff and that the sort of macroeconomic lens that I bring to these issues is often informed not by how the tech press is doing or how national political news is doing, but specifically how the news is doing in the town that you live in, covering the town that you live in, because that once was the primary way that people got their news. And it

And my own battles that I waged over this stuff and that the sort of macroeconomic lens that I bring to these issues is often informed not by how the tech press is doing or how national political news is doing, but specifically how the news is doing in the town that you live in, covering the town that you live in, because that once was the primary way that people got their news. And it

not really is any longer. And that's the thing that I'm looking at. It's the giant gaping hole that nobody's coming even close to figuring out how to fill because the things that we can point to that are positive examples are things that cumulatively employ like, you know, 20 or 30 people.

not really is any longer. And that's the thing that I'm looking at. It's the giant gaping hole that nobody's coming even close to figuring out how to fill because the things that we can point to that are positive examples are things that cumulatively employ like, you know, 20 or 30 people.

not really is any longer. And that's the thing that I'm looking at. It's the giant gaping hole that nobody's coming even close to figuring out how to fill because the things that we can point to that are positive examples are things that cumulatively employ like, you know, 20 or 30 people.

My own line on this is that if we are going to be trapped in an information economy with advertising monopolies, then there should effectively be forms of either collective bargaining or redistribution from those monopolies back to the people who are actually producing the original stuff. that they're distributing. I'm never advocating for a specific business.

My own line on this is that if we are going to be trapped in an information economy with advertising monopolies, then there should effectively be forms of either collective bargaining or redistribution from those monopolies back to the people who are actually producing the original stuff. that they're distributing. I'm never advocating for a specific business.

My own line on this is that if we are going to be trapped in an information economy with advertising monopolies, then there should effectively be forms of either collective bargaining or redistribution from those monopolies back to the people who are actually producing the original stuff. that they're distributing. I'm never advocating for a specific business.

I'm advocating for the interest of journalists more broadly. And how do we make more journalism and get more good stuff out there in the ecosystem? Because you're totally right. So we've got this imbalance where you've still got this

I'm advocating for the interest of journalists more broadly. And how do we make more journalism and get more good stuff out there in the ecosystem? Because you're totally right. So we've got this imbalance where you've still got this

I'm advocating for the interest of journalists more broadly. And how do we make more journalism and get more good stuff out there in the ecosystem? Because you're totally right. So we've got this imbalance where you've still got this

tiny rock hard core of journalists who are doing a lot of the work of actually finding sources, getting people on the phone or hounding them at their offices or their houses or getting public records or doing original analysis. They're doing the original stuff and it's the original stuff that gets picked up by a million other sort of aggregators and distributors on the internet. So

tiny rock hard core of journalists who are doing a lot of the work of actually finding sources, getting people on the phone or hounding them at their offices or their houses or getting public records or doing original analysis. They're doing the original stuff and it's the original stuff that gets picked up by a million other sort of aggregators and distributors on the internet. So

tiny rock hard core of journalists who are doing a lot of the work of actually finding sources, getting people on the phone or hounding them at their offices or their houses or getting public records or doing original analysis. They're doing the original stuff and it's the original stuff that gets picked up by a million other sort of aggregators and distributors on the internet. So

If you don't think that journalism serves any kind of special or important function like that kind of journalism, then no, it's not going to make sense to you that successful businesses like Google and Meta, who are filling a market need and serving their own users, should give money to businesses that haven't figured out how to survive as well as they have.

If you don't think that journalism serves any kind of special or important function like that kind of journalism, then no, it's not going to make sense to you that successful businesses like Google and Meta, who are filling a market need and serving their own users, should give money to businesses that haven't figured out how to survive as well as they have.

If you don't think that journalism serves any kind of special or important function like that kind of journalism, then no, it's not going to make sense to you that successful businesses like Google and Meta, who are filling a market need and serving their own users, should give money to businesses that haven't figured out how to survive as well as they have.

But I'm somebody who comes at this from the labor perspective and says, If you lay off 20 newspaper reporters, you're not going to see that labor replaced somewhere in the ecosystem. You're not going to see as many phone calls to the mayor or people digging through court records to bring original stuff to the public. So there's this

But I'm somebody who comes at this from the labor perspective and says, If you lay off 20 newspaper reporters, you're not going to see that labor replaced somewhere in the ecosystem. You're not going to see as many phone calls to the mayor or people digging through court records to bring original stuff to the public. So there's this