Episode 107
The year ahead for the media business with Sara Fischer of Axios
The media business in 2024
To kick off the year on The Rebooting Show, I spoke to Axios senior media reporter Sara Fischer about the main themes of the year ahead. Among the topics we covered:
- The value of identifying patterns from the torrent of news
- The unrealistic expectations of the ZIRP/scale era
- Cyclical challenges vs structural changes
- The wasteland of general interest publications
- The existential threat of AI to many publishing businesses
- AI’s impact on the non-content aspects of the publishing function
- How debt will accelerate the inevitable consolidation of streaming services