After the fire
The media business's painful transition
Brian Morrissey
Brian Morrissey is the founder of The Rebooting. Prior to The Rebooting, Brian was the President and Editor-in-chief of Digiday for nearly a decade.
The agony of the news apps
Next week, on Thursday, Jan 25 from 1-2pmEST, The Rebooting is holding an online forum to discuss the outlook for publisher subscriptions in 2024. I’m going to be joined by Bloomberg Media’s chief digital officer, Julia Beizer, and Max Tcheyan, Puck’s chief strategy officer. The session will
Scenes from CES
36 hours in Vegas
Fairness
Adversarial journalism to me, hit piece to you
Things that won't change
Plus: A conversation with Sara Fischer from Axios on the year ahead in the media business
Optimism
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The year of augmentation
Scaling ourselves
The new SERP
Plus: Highlights from The Rebooting's 2023 and a conversation with House of Kaizen's Matt Cronin on publisher subscription trends.
Lessons of 2023
I was joking with my former colleague Jack Marshall of Toolkits that between predictions, trends, megatrends, storylines and lessons there are so many ways to dress up the end-of-the-year roundup stories that proliferate. Publishing is an execution business, there are only so many ways to dress up formats. I decided
2024 storylines
Platform-publisher deals, mass media's decline while individuals rise, Web3 comes back
Podcasts as ‘nuance media’
Colossus CEO Matt Reustle on depth vs breadth
The platform-publisher divorce
Time to talk alimony