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Greetings from the Media Jungle! This week we have:
Rishad Tobaccowala (@rishad): a speaker, teacher, and advisor with over four decades of experience specializing in helping media companies re-work their strategies to remain relevant. He’s the author of Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data, and writes for The Future Does Not Fit In The Containers Of The Past, his weekly Substack newsletter.
On today’s episode, we cover:
How companies can improve themselves by being less data-driven
The potential new ventures from today’s content creators
What office relationships look like in a post-COVID world
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Watch the full episode on our Youtube channel here:
Here’s what happening in the news this week:
“Twitter Launches an Edit Button for Paying Subscribers” (Bloomberg)
“Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Draws More Than 25 Million Viewers" (WSJ)
“CNN White House Correspondent John Harwood Exits Network"(AdWeek)
“Ireland fines Instagram a record $400 million over children's data" (Reuters)
“Court shuts down Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent media" (Reuters)
Missed last week’s show? Here are some clips from my chat with Tim Burrowes:
EP23: Companies Need Soul (w/ Rishad Tobaccowala)