The Future of Media
Earlier this month, yet another fancam went viral on Twitter. “born in the wrong generation, i was meant to be a young millennial working at prime Buzzfeed!!!” @blackwomenwhore wrote above a compilation of some of millennial media’s greatest hits—New Girl, Fleabag, Broad City, spliced in between a smash cut of dip dye, Doc Marten, Lana del Rey, sepia-toned Tumblr reblog bait.
They’re missing 2010s media like a bitch, and so am I. Over the past few years, my shame for not having been born ten years earlier has only cropped up more frequently. If only I’d been born in 1988! My career would be so much better! I know I’m not the only twenty-something writer that feels this way. Clearly, I’m not the only one who spent years working towards this burgeoning new landscape of writing only to find that there’s seemingly no gold left for us.
Related Knowledge Center: State of the business model
The traditional journalism business model has long since collapsed, and news organizations have shrunk or disappeared entirely. While a number of promising experiments are under way, the public has not shown a willingness to buy what news organizations are selling.