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Oh boy a whole new generation of Medium publications.
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Evergreen tweet: Chronotope/925707267793735680?s=19
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I find it frustrating as these publications continue to get coverage they are not contextualized w/the fact that 2 entire generations of Medium publications have fallen apart before. I'm not bagging on good people working on them, but history is important. nytimes.com/2019/03/19/business/media/mark-bittman-medium-food-magazine.html
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It's the equivalent of writing a glowing review of a new health care startup where the CTO is Elizabeth Holmes and not mentioning the events of Bad Blood. It's big a problem in tech and politics coverage, that it is so ahistorical.
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If you're writing a profile of a new Medium publication the first question should be: 'What makes this different from all the previous failures at basically this exact same thing?' because that's an *important* question.
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I understand some of the writing people involved will look at this as an opportunity for a higher salary they can leverage into a better job when it inevitably falls apart (totally fine!), but then don't frame these pub launches like some Guiding Star for the news industry.
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That's not even getting into how a publication with a 3 month contract could possibly deliver on the promise to people who subscribed to Medium for that specific pub; or the problem of ephemerality as an entity running counter to a journalistic mission Choire/1108009384968445952