Water & Music’s Cherie Hu on going solo

Music x tech x business x web3

Slow growth

Building sustainable media brands take time

How Skift survived Covid

Plus: lean media, manufactured growth vs organic growth, and programmatic helping independent media in Ukraine

The rebirth of native advertising

Primary-engagement media can monetize differently

Jarrod Dicker's sane person's guide to crypto

Plus: Censorship fights, personal brands and teardown pieces

Substack’s Shopify problem

Meet the new middleman

How Puck is putting creators at the center of a media brand

COO Liz Gough on the sweet spot between institutional and personal brands

Autonomy

Personal brands are a reaction to institutional failures

The Logic’s David Skok on being a journalist founder

‘The news industry is as much product and business strategy as editorial’

The institutional-individual brand continuum

Finding the best of institutional brands and individual

Howard Mittman on 'mission-driven' publishing

Need > Feed

End of an era of ad targeting

Publishers will need closer ties to their audiences