How Google and Facebook Strangled Their Digital Offspring

The conventional wisdom used to be that digital natives were the only journalism businesses that would thrive. But big layoffs at BuzzFeed and HuffPost show that the Web’s dominant companies can’t be trusted to build a news business on.

via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/how-google-and-facebook-are-strangling-their-digital-offspring

The conventional wisdom used to be that digital natives were the only journalism businesses that would thrive. But big layoffs at BuzzFeed and HuffPost show that the Web’s dominant companies can’t be trusted to build a news business on.