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An interesting read on the current state of media and the massive changes that have been happening over the last year or so.

Just within the last month, all kinds of details have emerged about the construction of new, digital, high-quality-aiming national news organizations. What may seem like a gold rush is really something else, but the reasons underlying the great movement — and it’s only January! — are worth examining.

via The newsonomics of why everyone seems to be starting a news site » Nieman Journalism Lab.

Then there’s this on Buzzfeed that takes the piss out of much of the media world’s reporting on the media world:

Most of the “future of media” columns this week, written largely by established, authoritative critics at legacy media properties, lacked crucial context. This is a crowd that deeply understands the players in and economics of the media business, but that privileges old media over new (or even just old-new over new-new). Today’s most prominent media reporters watched and chronicled print’s financial troubles and the rise of scrappy web ventures, and drew from their own experiences with both, documenting and living in an industry changing against its own will. It was a short, under-appreciated golden era of media reporting — immensely compelling writers finding themselves at the center of a fascinating and consuming story.