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The author is a career journalist/digital publisher with lots of professional contacts in the industry. He has spent lots of time investigating digital media bu

The author is a career journalist/digital publisher with lots of professional contacts in the industry. He has spent lots of time investigating digital media business models and the financial health of digital media companies. His own company has transitioned from being mostly ad supported to being mostly directly reader supported in the past few years. He is just making a blog observation, which can be best read in the context of the rest of his site/blog, which have been talking about similar issues for years. Much of his evidence is scattered through tiny posts, which blog readers are assumed to have been following. It’s not supposed to be a deep carefully cited research article.

soared 9y ago
Eh I guess without any context then its not a very useful blog post. I'd still like to see some links or an attempt at verifying some claims. Even a byline with his industry experience would help.
- brokentone 9y ago
  It's posted on TPM on the "Editor's Blog" and the byline says "Josh Marshall is editor and publisher of TalkingPointsMemo.com." what else do you need on his credentials? There are links scattered throughout, but part of the point of this post is that no one is really talking about this issue at least at the depth it deserves, so understandably it's light on references. In this case, I'd treat a lot of this as an original source.
  - soared 9y ago
    Thats completely meaningless. I've got that byline on 4 different websites. There is one link in the entire post. So because it deserves depth, he does the opposite? There are thousands of 'publishers' like this - I don't believe he's qualified to claim the industry is broken. He can't see anything from a macro perspective.
    - coolgeek 9y ago
      He's a Polk Award-winning journalist, he has a History PhD from Brown, and he has written for many other publications over at least the last 20 years. Given that he has a wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Marshall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Marshall, it's pretty obvious that you're not interested in doing the slightest bit of research into the subject that you're criticizing.
      - soared 9y ago
        All of which should go in his by-line.

soared 9y ago

Eh I guess without any context then its not a very useful blog post. I'd still like to see some links or an attempt at verifying some claims. Even a byline with his industry experience would help.

brokentone 9y ago
It's posted on TPM on the "Editor's Blog" and the byline says "Josh Marshall is editor and publisher of TalkingPointsMemo.com." what else do you need on his credentials? There are links scattered throughout, but part of the point of this post is that no one is really talking about this issue at least at the depth it deserves, so understandably it's light on references. In this case, I'd treat a lot of this as an original source.
- soared 9y ago
  Thats completely meaningless. I've got that byline on 4 different websites. There is one link in the entire post. So because it deserves depth, he does the opposite? There are thousands of 'publishers' like this - I don't believe he's qualified to claim the industry is broken. He can't see anything from a macro perspective.
  - coolgeek 9y ago
    He's a Polk Award-winning journalist, he has a History PhD from Brown, and he has written for many other publications over at least the last 20 years. Given that he has a wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Marshall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Marshall, it's pretty obvious that you're not interested in doing the slightest bit of research into the subject that you're criticizing.
    - soared 9y ago
      All of which should go in his by-line.