WWD / Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Fusion faces its new reality →After laying off 70 in November, Fusion is now rolled up into the Gizmodo Media Group (part of what is called the Fusion Media Group). On the business side, Fusion’s sales team has been centralized, so sales staff can now combine the company’s web traffic numbers to add scale and sell by category across the 11 sites that make up the FMG, a larger structure that includes the eight sites under the GMG umbrella as well the Onion, Clickhole, and the AV Club.
The New York Times / Laura M. Holson
The New York Times / Jim Rutenberg
Bloomberg View / Leonid Bershidsky
Why Medium failed to disrupt the media →“There is no way to disrupt this the way Uber is disrupting the taxi business: Writing to which people will subscribe is not a commodity. It’s rare and expensive, and it’s not about good software or buzzwords like “network effect.” That will probably be the next revelation for Williams as he retraces the steps of “legacy” publishers.”
New York / Susannah Edelbaum
Motherboard / Jordan Pearson
Here’s 520 hours of searchable Donald Trump interviews →“The good folks at the Internet Archive have created a growing repository of more than 520 hours of Donald Trump TV interviews and appearances, from 2009 to now. The archive of video is searchable, and comes with a video editor for making supercuts. Go nuts.”