- Axios Media Trends
A reliable pulse on the structural shifts happening across the media industry — M&A moves, platform changes, audience trends. Short and signal-dense, which makes it easy to keep up without the noise.
- Digiday
Solid trade coverage of the advertising and media space. Not always groundbreaking, but consistently tracks where the industry's money and attention are moving.
- Nieman Lab
Journalism industry analysis with real academic rigor. The annual Predictions for Journalism is worth reading in full every year — a useful calibration on where the industry thinks it's heading.
- Stratechery
The sharpest long-form analysis on how technology reshapes media and platform economics. Thompson's Aggregation Theory alone is worth the subscription — it reframes how you think about digital publishing, distribution, and power.
- The Information
Paywalled, premium, and worth it. Deep reporting on the technology business that goes beyond press releases — the kind of structural investigations that shape how you think about the industry.
- The Platformer
The most consistent, well-sourced reporting on how social platforms operate, fail, and evolve. Essential reading for understanding how content distribution actually works in practice.
- The Rebooting
The most grounded, honest writing on what it actually takes to build a media business today. Practical, unsentimental, and often contrarian in good ways.
