This week, we discuss how to turn the ship at two very different companies facing different challenges: CNN and Google. At CNN, former New York Times CEO Mark Thompson is looking to reinvent the still very profitable broadcaster into a more nimble, digitally focused operation as its viewership and cultural importance fade. Google is facing its biggest threat yet in the form of AI and signs with Gemini AI image search that there might just be something to those complaints about a “woke culture.” Plus: nostalgia for websites, invisible paywalls and Substack’s next chapter.
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Media Is From Mars, Tech Is From Venus
Summer Media
More With Less
Distribution Chokepoints
Distribution Disruption
The Talent Repricing
Twilight of the Open Web
Dark Patterns
NYT vs CNN
Enter the Face Computer
The End of Ads and The Last Impression
Advertising Is Bugs
The Deterioration of Webpages
Ambient Media
The New Interface
Why Buzzfeed News got shut down
AI meets tech's friction paradox
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Fear and Loathing, AI Edition
The death of ad formats
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Insight Story: Tech Trends Unpacked
Zero-Shot
Fast Forward by Tomorrow Unlocked: Tech past, tech future
The Unbelivable Truth - Series 1 - 26 including specials and pilot
Lex Fridman Podcast