Michael Wolff

Founder, Newser.com

MICHAEL WOLFF is the founder of the controversial news aggregator service, Newser.com, and guides its overall direction. He is currently the media columnist for Vanity Fair and author of numerous best-selling books, including The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch. Wolff is a commentator on CNBC and a frequent guest on US network and cable news shows.

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    About the session

    Die Newspapers, Die! [2009]

    A journalist denouncing journalism is bound to get bruised in the media business. Michael Wolff is ready for that beating.

    SPEAKER: Michael Wolff (US) Founder, Newser.com

    20 employees editing the stories of others into a headline, picture, and two paragraphs before putting them back online. This is the business Newser.com is in and it will be the end of newspapers as we know them according to Newser’s founder, Michael Wolff. Newser is a fast-growing service and has unsurprisingly antagonized news media already struggling to make ends meet. A challenging business models and ruthlessly reordering the work of journalists – but is it, in fact, the future of news media?

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