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Joe Van Brussel

Aug 21, 2026

7:25
But on the other hand,
7:26
we all have to acknowledge that most of the big media companies don't make all their money just with human journalism.
7:33
They're diversifying, they're supplementing with all sorts of content, wellness or games or acquisitions of other properties.
7:41
A lot of big media companies, I used to work for Verizon, which acquired AOL, which had acquired HuffPost and TechCrunch and Engadget and Autoblog.
7:48
That's a fairly common route these days is for a media company to acquire a lot of different properties.
7:54
And so we have to think about is within those companies, they do have the human journalism, but oftentimes that human journalism is being supported by other types of content.
8:01
And that other type of content is going to be easier, more easily replaced by AI when you get into things like I love sports and more and more sports writing is getting automated.

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