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to “elevate” the average sophistication of writing on their platform, Medium hired journalists and authors to write for them, and even had a strategy to get people to create entire professional magazine-like publications on their platform. Some of the writing that came out of this was truly incredible, but it also cost a lot of money, which was quickly becoming an issue.
Did Medium Succeed?
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Mostly, notes that come from people are things I jot down during meetings (where I almost always do use bullet points, although I don't bother with anything more fancy than a quick `#priority` if there's something important I need to do) and almost always refactor later by moving key information into the relevant places, like my email, calendar, or reference notes.
🌲The Konik Method for Making Useful Notes
Eleanor Konik
The first was that of the __evening papers (wanbao)__, which in the early years of the reform era were the only newspapers permitted to play to the popular consumer desires of China’s “ordinary people” (laobaixing), and for this reason were able to run highly profitable businesses through the sale of their advertising space. The second model was that of the __metropolitan papers (dushibao)__, which had to compete much harder for readership and did so by proffering bolder and more sensationalized news, while also boosting their revenues by producing and selling soft and black articles. The third model—of which The Times was a product—was that of the __high-end news platforms__ that broke away from the market for massappeal news to target a wealthier and more elite stratum of readers, and sell both conventional advertising space and soft and black articles to companies that wanted to reach this particular demographic. To better appreciate the journalists’ sense of what their newsmaking practice consisted in, it is helpful to consider each of these models more closely.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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