When you title your book, “Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy”…
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087561
You definitely have our attention.
In Episode 8 of Laid Off and Looking, Dom and Jenna interview author Margot Susca, an assistant professor at the School of Communication at American University.
She discusses her book “Hedged,” the untold history of an American catastrophe where the ultra-wealthy own and guide the newspaper system in the United States. Through entities like hedge funds and private equity firms, Susca explains how the investor class systematically dismantled the one institution meant to give voice to average citizens in a democracy.
EPISODE TIMESTAMPS:
Intro: 1:15
Headlines: 3:00
Interview: 8:53
Spotlight: 1:08:55
Show Headlines:
Deadspins’s entire staff had been laid off after the sports site was sold to a startup
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/media/deadspin-sale-layoffs/index.html
J-Group Says Hudge-Fund Papers Unwelcome
https://www.journal-isms.com/2024/03/j-group-says-hedge-fund-papers-unwelcome/
Spotlight:
Journalism is in freefall. These writers aren’t giving up: ‘We can go out swinging’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/02/journalism-us-media-industry-layoffs-co-ops
Flaming Hydra
https://flaminghydra.com/
Outlier Media:
https://outliermedia.org/about/
The Pivot Fund
https://thepivotfund.org/
Proof News
https://www.proofnews.org/
The FlyOver
https://jointheflyover.com/
HellGate
https://hellgatenyc.com/
Defector
https://defector.com/
Discourse blog
https://www.discourseblog.com/
Racket
https://racketmn.com/
The Colorado Sun
https://coloradosun.com/
