What’s the Right Relationship Between Technology Companies and Journalism?

By: Emily Bell | The Guardian

Last week a Silicon Valley billionaire asked me a question. Not, unfortunately, “what are your bank details?”, but something rather more testing: “Name one way in which journalism companies are not the same as software companies.

I could have launched into a long list starting with “at journalism companies, generally the people who write the code are not in charge, which explains a lot”, running through “there are more opinionated women in news companies – or actually more women, or some women”, and ending with “at journalism companies no one can afford a Tesla, or, indeed, to take an Uber”.