Deep Dive: The Media Landscape - Sense-Making 2.0

How do we navigate an ever-evolving media landscape? How have algorithmic systems disrupted the traditional media ecosystem? Who are the new sense-makers and is there a new creator playbook forming?

Last week, Elon was on Joe Rogan's podcast talking about how the Associated Press had become a propaganda and misinformation platform. Three months ago, Jon Stewart was on Ezra Klein's podcast criticizing the "moralizing nature" of traditional media, and two years ago, Marty Baron commented in an interview that, after the rise of the internet, "the marginal cost of gaining an additional subscriber was essentially zero" and the lack of viability for local news is the "biggest crisis in journalism today." At the same time, everyone is experiencing polarization and radicalization not just on…