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Felix Salmon Quotes

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“It doesn’t matter how good you are at what you do, your success, in this industry, is always going to be governed in large part by luck.”
— Felix Salmon, To All the Young Journalists Asking for Advice....
Tagged: Luck, Journalism, Success
“If you get a job by competing on price against 40-year-olds when you’re 22, then the turnabout, once you reach 40, is only fair play.”
— Felix Salmon, To All the Young Journalists Asking for Advice....
Tagged: Job, Journalism, Graduation, Millennials and Jobs
“But the tragedy of today’s filing is that Nick Denton has no real control over that outcome. He built Gawker Media, and has devoted the past 14 years of his life to it. Now, he’s probably going to see his company disappear into the hands of one of the media moguls that Gawker was created to skewer. That’s nothing to be sanguine about.”
— Felix Salmon, Why Gawker's Bankruptcy Spells the End of an Empire
Tagged: Independent Media, Digital Publishing
“It used to be that journalism was something that you got better at over time — and the result was that talent was something that media companies wanted to invest in, and needed to pay good money to retain. But today, someone who’s spent 20 weeks at BuzzFeed has much more reach, and is probably significantly more valuable, than someone who’s spent 20 years at the 185-year-old Barnstable Patriot.”
— Felix Salmon, To All the Young Journalists Asking for Advice....
Tagged: Buzzfeed, New Media Economics
“If Thiel’s strategy works against Gawker, it could be used by any billionaire against any media organization. Sheldon Adelson, Donald Trump, the list goes on and on. Up until now, they’ve mostly been content suing news organizations as plaintiffs, over stories which name them. But Thiel has shown them how to go thermonuclear: bankroll other lawsuits, as many as it takes, and bankrupt the news organization that way. Very few companies have the legal wherewithal to withstand such a barrage.”
— Felix Salmon, Peter Thiel Just Gave Other Billionaires a Dangerous Blueprint for Perverting Philanthropy
Tagged: Gawker Media, Rich vs. The Media, Legal Battles, Thiel vs. Gawker
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