David Hirschman spent more than seven years as News Editor at Mediabistro, where he covered the media industry from the inside. He has written for the New York Times, Wired, New York Magazine, Advertising Age, and dozens of other publications, and later co-founded Street Fight, a media and events company that was acquired in 2017. He holds a B.A. from Brown University and a graduate degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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The newspaper industry analyst on the models that might actually work for sustaining quality journalism online -- and why paywalls aren't one of them.
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The ABC News digital executive on keeping a legacy broadcast brand competitive -- and the investments he's making in the network's digital future.
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The media innovator on the local content strategy that drives massive web traffic -- and his experiment using digital video as a substitute for television.
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The Knight Foundation president on the grants, experiments, and organizations he's funding to find what journalism's viable future looks like.
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The tech evangelist and author on Twitter as a professional tool, not a personal one -- and the volume strategy behind his massive following.
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The O editor-at-large and morning TV host on what it actually means to work alongside Oprah -- and the ways she has built her own reputation alongside the world's most famous brand.
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The former Wall Street Journal managing editor on why he left print to build the investigative reporting nonprofit that would redefine the model.
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To folks used to slowly toiling their way up the ladder in the world of magazines, Noah Callahan-Bever may seem to have shot up really quickly to the role of EIC at Marc Ecko's Complex.…
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