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Does Indie Media Need to Be Saved?
Or maybe just let it die
This article hit my transom a few days ago:
I admire the earnestness, the New York-ness of it all, the bold history of starting new media ventures in a city already full of them.
That’s what the book, Traffic, was all about — Buzzfeed and Gawker and Vice and HuffPo and The Drudge Report taking on what that legacy media just couldn’t get.
The NY Times article mentions how these two young-ish people captured a moment with a fun print magazine they released during the pandemic and how they’re hoping to turn it into another online outlet for writers called the Byline.
Hopefully it succeeds, maybe it won’t, I’m not in a position to know.
However, I do find the panic about where and how writers will continue to create fascinating.
This quote is particularly telling, from Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz:
“It’s harder than ever if you’re a young writer today,” said Taylor Lorenz, who covers online culture…
