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


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