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Washington Post ===>Jeff Bezos of Amazon Time Magazine ===>Marc Bienoff of Salesforce Which one is next New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newyorker? The Si
by NoB4Mouth 8y ago
Washington Post ===>Jeff Bezos of Amazon
Time Magazine ===>Marc Bienoff of Salesforce
Which one is next New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newyorker?
The Silicon Valley super rich are on media outlets buying spree. It seems being online news' aggregators (Facebook, Google & co.)and opinion influencers/manipulators is not enough for them. They have to take hold of the content production too either printed, on TV or Radio... Welcome to SV version of Big Brother!
- RegicidalManiac 8y agoI bet no one will buy NewYorker. Opposite of reading is not not-reading it is reading something like NewYorker.
- goatherders 8y agoNot to be snarky, but you listed two. Add in the Facebook guy that bought New Republic years ago and that's three in the last 6 years. That's a spree?
- donarb 8y agoLaurene Powell Jobs bought The Atlantic.
- cylinder 8y agoLooks like this is the quickest way for west coast tech new money to instantly purchase prestige with the east coast class.
- Apocryphon 8y agoSomeone should have bought the Village Voice.
- goatherders 8y agoAgreed
- Reedx 8y agoAny bets on how much NYT will go for?
- thaumasiotes 8y agoNYT was bailed out a while ago by investment from Carlos Slim (of the Mexican state-granted telecom monopoly). It looks like he currently holds a little under 15%. https://www.barrons.com/articles/carlos-slim-sells-40-million-more-in-new-york-times-stock-1524244371 https://www.barrons.com/articles/carlos-slim-sells-40-millio...
- xtracto 8y agoCarlos Slim has a good 17% stake of The New York Times so...