Context Collapse | Neal Ungerleider | Marketing, PR & Media

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When I was a baby journalist...

When I was a baby journalist...

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Nov 28, 2017
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When I was a baby journalist...
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Greetings from Los Angeles, where Thanksgiving was a balmy 85 degrees.

I've been busy with consulting projects for a few clients. I also wrote a new article on how Android & iOS apps are transforming clinical trials for O'Reilly Ideas. Check it out.

And in other news...

I entered the journalism world in the early 2000s--a weird time where nearly everything I learned as a baby journalist would quickly become irrelevant a few years later.

(Typesetting! Microfiche archives! Developing your own photos! All those things.)

Now in 2017 the journalism industry is completely changed. In Canada, fourteen local newspapers are shutting down in the next few weeks. Here in the United States, midwestern lifestyle publisher Meredith (with some help from the Koch brothers) is buying Time Inc. at fire sale prices.

Meanwhile, Facebook is increasingly becoming the portal through which people discover news and lifestyle content. Despire the fact that they are the de-facto town square for much of the…

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