Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution Audiobook (Free)

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Retailers of Truth by Jill Abramson, ex – editor of The New York Times, is the gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the trend which has swept the news industry over the last 10 years and reshaped our world.

Drawing on revelatory gain access to, Abramson will take us behind the moments at four press titans during the most volatile years in news history. Two are maverick upstarts: BuzzFeed, the brain-child of virtuoso clickbait scientist Jonah Perretti, and VICE, about Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution led from the booze-fuelled anarcho-hipster Shane Smith. Their viral technology and disregard for the long-established specifications of news journalism permit them to create game-changing billion-dollar businesses out of the millennial taste for puppy dogs and nudity.

Both others are among the world’s most venerable news institutions: The New York Moments, owned and run for generations with the Sulzberger dynasty, and The Washington Post, also family-owned but quickly to become bought with the world’s richest merchant of all, Jeff Bezos. Here Abramson unveils first-hand the seismic clashes that happen in the boardrooms and newsrooms because they are pressured to choose between their appreciated principles – objectivity and impartiality – and survival in a global where online advertising via Facebook and Google appears the just life-raft.

We are with the deal-making tycoons, thrusting reporters and hard-bitten editors, the egomaniacs, bullshitters, provocateurs and bullies, as some surf among others drown in the breaking wave of modification. And we view as the survivors confront the horrifying cost of their success: sexual scandal, fake information, the election of Chief executive Trump, the shaking of democracy.

Exposing individuals and decisions that brought us to now, Merchants of Truth is certainly a major book that breaks the best news story of our occasions.