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‘The traffic is going away, so build a solution’: Casey Newton on the evolving relationship between journalism and online platforms

A man reads a news website on his laptop in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo.

Casey Newton, technology journalist and founder of the Platformer newsletter, discusses the evolving relationship between the big online platforms and the news media and the future of journalism in the age of big tech.

The episode is part of The Hub‘s Future of News series in which The Hub‘s editor-at-large, Sean Speer, will be in conversation with journalists and policy thinkers to explore the challenges facing the news media industry and the respective roles of business and government to establish sustainable models for producing and distributing news and information. The Future of News series is supported and funded by The Hub’s foundation donors and Meta.

You can listen to this episode of Hub Dialogues on AcastAmazonAppleGoogle, and Spotify. The episodes are generously supported by The Ira Gluskin And Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation and The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation.

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