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Podcast: The Business of Content with Simon Owens · Simon Owens

Opublikowano: 2026-06-18

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ For more than a decade, Erin Millar has been trying to answer a question that has plagued the journalism industry: What should replace the local newspaper model after it collapses? Her first attempt came with The Discourse, a Canadian media company that experimented with new approaches to community-driven reporting before eventually evolving into a network of local news outlets. But along the way, Millar realized that the biggest opportunity wasn't necessarily building another media chain — it was creating the infrastructure that could help hundreds of independent publishers thrive. ...