Raptive’s Rapture: The writer community Raptive, which represents and helps monetize over 6,500 unbiased web sites, handed a heady milestone earlier this week, having paid out greater than $4 billion to its accomplice websites. Collectively, Raptive reaches 224 million customers per 30 days, making it one of many largest digital media firms on the planet, in addition to a useful voice for the huge long-tail of digital content material creators. Too many conversations about digital media give attention to an exceedingly small variety of publishers, when in truth content material creators like those that make up Raptive are as important to the digital ecosystem as small companies are to the broader financial system.

The Economist’s Dilemma: Buddy of the e-newsletter Maxwell Tani had an insightful piece on Sunday concerning the challenges, comparatively talking, going through The Economist. The writer famously doesn’t byline any of its tales, selecting as a substitute to attribute all of its reporting to the monolithic Economist model. This technique, which has served the writer since its launch in 1843, now places it straight at odds with a number of the influential traits reshaping the digital media panorama—particularly, the atomization of media shops into a set of journalist-creators. I might argue that The Economist, extra so than most publishers, has such a definite model, and even such a selected, overt ideology, that it alone may have the ability to persist on this method. How the writer navigates these subsequent few years, nonetheless, might be an interesting litmus take a look at for the sturdiness of editorial establishments.

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Pulled Quotes

“Neutral reporting is out; jestergooning is in.”
Substack cofounder Hamish McKenzie, selling his forthcoming e-book
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“If what you do includes something associated to the human capability for motive, reflection, perception, creativity, or thought, you can be meat for the coltan mines.”
Harper’s Journal author Sam Kriss, on who succeeds in a world of technological parity
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“‘Dad,’ Alice typically says at dinner, ‘get off your telephone.’”
Bloomberg’s Max Chafkin, on Gen Alpha’s stunning disinterest in screens
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“The one motive we’re nonetheless speaking to those individuals is we want them and we want them now. The issue for these guys is they’re that good.”
An nameless Protection official, on why the Pentagon can’t stop Anthropic
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