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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 15h

Can Confirm it was a miserable morning at PHL.

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 15h

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 15h

This kind of obituary, with photos of Rick as a newlywed, is The Way, and Kristen does a wonderful job writing with grace and deep care for her subject -- and her friend.

Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 15h

RIP, Rick. We lost a living piece of journalism history; he was the nephew of Hedley Donovan, a pretty key player at Time Inc and a big part of David Halberstam's magesterial The Powers That Be, and the assistant to Scotty Reston, similarly a key figure in that book. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Rick Edmonds chronicled the media business with savvy, care and wit - Poynter

The veteran journalist died at 78 on Sunday

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 3d

weird around here at this hour.

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 11d

I ... was also there and I would posit that my kids, for instance - in their 20s - are not on FB and don't want to be. They're TikTok and YouTube first. And they prefer video; I think it's at least partly generational.

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 11d

IDK, I hear you as someone who loves the written word, but in my experience people under let's say 35 are vertical video- and story-first. It's remarkable.

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 11d

The pivot to video happened and it was the audience that made the pivot

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 16d

And then came the internet to unbundle everything. Smartphones put the internet in everyone's pocket. The bill for that sweet public money from Wall Street started coming due, and the way to keep margins up was to cut costs. And here we are. Hearst won, which is better for Dallas.

Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 16d

Getting acquired by 'good' chains (Knight papers, etc.) that had gone public was sound business practice. Times Mirror, once a pretty big conglomerate, threw off massive profits and kept acquiring. PM papers died. Mergers - Timeses and Heralds became Times-Heralds - created local ad monopolies. 2/

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 16d

The last part of @joshuabenton.com's Nieman piece on Alden losing out on the Dallas Morning News -- the dual class stock structure some family-run newspapers employed -- is part of why today's local newspaper landscape is so apocalyptic. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall... 1/

Dallas Morning News shareholders vote to deny the hedge fund Alden Global Capital

Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer.

www.niemanlab.org

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 22d

It's always a good day to support your local independent journalism provider -- and we're happy to be able to serve 40 of those in New England through our first regional program like this: lionpublishers.com/lion-to-help...

LION to help 40 New England publishers thanks to Barr Foundation grant - LION Publishers

This $265,000 Barr Foundation grant will support post-Audit tools and resources for up to 40 New England newsrooms.

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · 23d

This podcast is amazing. I found it via @nealstephenson.bsky.social and haven't looked back. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on storytelling, their strangest interactions with fans and bonding over The Lord of the Rings

www.theguardian.com

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Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · 28d

It's wild, delicious, and utterly predictable for the original compilers of unprotected facts to bring a lawsuit against the next generation. Encyclopedias were "stealing" facts and ideas from other people's books back when we still called it "research."

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · Sep 3

dan how many of these get absolutely wrecked by squirrels

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · Sep 2

spiedes, though, are really outstanding.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · Aug 21

Calvin & Hobbes being quoted in a Supreme Court ruling is kind of quietly mind-blowing.

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · Aug 15

We at @lionpubs.bsky.social are now accepting applications for the Growth Grant program; 15 members will receive $100,000 thanks to the @macfound.org program we've just launched. Details here: lionpublishers.com/lion-opens-a...

LION opens applications for 15 $100,000 Growth Grants - LION Publishers

MacArthur Foundation-supported initiative will turn Sustainability Audit recommendations into transformational action.

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · Aug 13

Tickets still available, but going fast! lionpublishers.com/summit-2025/

Summit 2025 - LION Publishers

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · Aug 13

St. Louis, here we come! In a couple of weeks @lionpubs.bsky.social's Independent News Sustainability Summit lands, with this slick design available on t-shirts only for in-person attendees...

T-shirt design for LION Publishers' St. Louis conference, featuring the Arch, the state capitol building, a riverboat and a LION flying the famous Spirit of St. Louis biplane.

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · Aug 12

Infrastructure is hard and unsexy and @lionpubs.bsky.social spends a lot of time trying to help people with just that.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Aug 12

... @oliverdarcy.bsky.social after year one of @status.news

Subscriptions are a slow burn
Churn is a real problem
Email deliverability is an entire discipline
Free content doesn’t drive revenue growth
Scoops move the needle
Building business infrastructure is harder and more expensive than it seems

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · Aug 11

Local TV news biz is consolidating fast imo

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · Aug 11

Sources: Sinclair is launching a strategic review of its broadcast business that could lead to a merger and is looking to separate or spinoff its Ventures unit (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · Aug 11

Rut roh.

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · Aug 11

Letter: MNG Enterprises, controlled by Alden Global Capital, has upped its offer for The Dallas Morning News by $1 to $17.50/share, $2.50 more than Hearst's bid (Ray Schultz/MediaPost)

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · Aug 7

OK well this is charming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5v4...

The Paper | Official Trailer | Peacock Original

YouTube video by Peacock

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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social · Aug 7

Jon Stewart interviewed Tony Gilroy (ANDOR) AND Mike Duncan (REVOLUTIONS [podcast]) at the same time?! I'm like half an hour in but wow, what a cool idea. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

History Meets Galaxy with Tony Gilroy and Mike Duncan

Podcast Episode · The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · 07/10/2025 · 1h 35m

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