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So you want to start your own media company?
“This is a bad idea. We are qualified to say this because we have done it,” write Kelsey McKinney and Aleksander Chan, founding members of Discourse Blog and Defector Media, respectively. For our latest special issue on media consolidation, McKinney and Chan break down just how they started their upstart businesses, and how you can do it too. “No starting position will be so good that it can prevent failure. You must face the terror of being seen. You must launch your website and try,” they say. No more dilly-dallying. |
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The Media, Disability, and Me |
Working in media has always been an uphill battle for disabled writers, but an ever-shrinking industry gives “hard” a whole new meaning. |
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Vilissa Thompson |
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Lina Khan’s Anti-Monopoly Power |
Beginning in the 1970s, the Federal Trade Commission gave up on its mission to protect consumers and competition. Then Khan took charge of the agency, and turned it on its head. |
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Bryce Covert |
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