From a Washington Post story by media columnist Margaret Sullivan headlined “If American democracy is going to survive, the media must make this crucial shift”:

From a Ben Smith Media Equation story in the New York Times headlined “A Comedy Nails the Media Apocalypse”:

After the president, a former nude model, tries to cover up a major discovery, two astronomers leak the news to a New York newspaper known for its Gothic banner, which the new film “Don’t Look Up” calls The New York Herald: A comet is going to destroy the earth in six months.

From a Poynter Report post headlined “At the end of another difficult year in the media, Poynter staffers offer their thoughts on what they’re thankful for this year”:

Kristen Hare, local news faculty:

I’m grateful for local journalists every year, but this year I’m really grateful for several organizations that serve them: LION, INN and LMA.

The Poynter Report with Tom Jones asks “Who influenced the media this week?”:

From a New York Times story by Erin Griffith and Erin Woo headlined “How Elizabeth Holmes Soured the Media on Silicon Valley”:

SAN JOSE, Calif. — At the height of her acclaim in 2015, Elizabeth Holmes, the entrepreneur who founded the blood testing start-up Theranos, was named Glamour’s “Woman of the Year.” Time put her on its list of 100 luminaries. And she graced the covers of Fortune, Forbes, Inc. and T Magazine.

Theranos collapsed in scandal three years later, failing in its mission to revolutionize the health care industry. But it did change the world in another way: It helped sour the media on Silicon Valley.

From a story on whatsnewinpublishing.com by Damian Radcliffe headlined “Innovation in practice: 5 ideas in action at successful media companies around the world”:

Principle 1: The Value of Niche

There was a point where the mainstream media industry believed scale was taking marginally valuable audiences and trying to make them bigger. We’ve done the opposite,” Sean Griffey, CEO and co-founder of Industry Dive, told Axios recently.

“This is a company that has taken a ridiculously simple idea — that ‘the real value in business media is in niche, highly targeted audiences’ — and then replicated it profitably multiple times,” observes Rishad Patel, the co-founder of Splice Media in Singapore.