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Inside the Very Tough Business of Trying to Disrupt Media
Good morning from the Hive newsroom! Making money in the media biz is a lot harder than it looks, as Charlotte Klein reports in her fresh dispatch on Grid News, the one-year-old media venture that was unexpectedly gobbled up by an even bolder and buzzier news start-up. “The question they were trying to solve is just, when you’re doing non-clickbait,” one Grid staffer tells Klein, “how do you make sure you can monetize that?”
Zooming out, Eric Lutz pillories Republicans for pinning Monday’s massacre in Nashville on the LGBTQ+ community following news that the perpetrator was reportedly trans. Plus, Bess Levin catches the latest on Mike Pence’s failure to weasel his way out of testifying in the January 6 probe. Thanks for reading.
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Inside the Very Tough Business of Trying to Disrupt Media
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Grid News, a one-year-old start-up, shuttered this week after getting acquired by The Messenger, which launches next month. Will this media marriage work?
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