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Roger Lynch

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Conde Nast became a very big, successful company following that strategy.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

But it was not the right strategy for the internet age and the digital age and how audiences had changed.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Audiences moved from, oh, I read my local newspaper, my local content,

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

I want to see what's happening around the world.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

I want to consume content from Korea or China or Sweden or Israel or wherever.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Much more cosmopolitan in their approach to how they consume content.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

And so really we use that as a guidepost to say, okay, how should we structure ourselves and just question everything about

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

you know, how we organize ourself and even the culture of the company, which was very, very territorial and fiefdom based to what it is today, which is much more collaborative.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

What we find is certainly our largest, most important brands

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

have done very well in this.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Like Vogue is our largest brand.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Vogue has grown every year I've been at the company.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

It grows revenue, grows profitability every year.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Thank you.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

It is good news.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

And the New Yorker also.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

The New Yorker just had its most successful year ever by a long shot.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Those brands, whatever's happening with search algorithms or AI, they seem to just be able to rise above it.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

Sure.

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Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era

We have smaller niche brands, Pitchfork, a music brand, very small, it's 1% of our revenue, but it has a very strong, loyal audience in the category that it covers.