Monday, December 8, 2014

Disrupting a Republic: Chris Hughes on what went wrong

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Q: One of the issues surrounding how this has played out is the fact that your vision for the future of The New Republic is still something of a mystery, which former editor Michael Kinsley pointed out in a story in the New York Times. What’s this thing going to look like in a year?


A: I think that people read and share and talk about the news in a different way in 2014 than even a couple years ago. That sounds like a platitude, but the fact is that we have to adapt to catch up and experiment with those new storytelling techniques. We've begun that but we need to accelerate that. I think traditional newsrooms are doing that. The New York Times is doing that. There are startups that are doing that — like Vox and Mic and others — and that kind of culture is what we have to embrace Read more...


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