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By Jack Shafer, Opinion @ Reuters, August 21, 2013
[....]The rise of the Marquee Brothers is, as best as I can determine, unprecedented in American journalism [.....]
[....] the semi-independent scribe working directly inside a news operation with a staff and brand of his own, and substantial autonomy from the remainder of the organization, appears to be a new thing
"The Nate Silver analogue of the 1800s would have just started his own paper, because it was so cheap to start one," said Jonathan Ladd, a professor of government at Georgetown University and author of Why Americans Hate the Media and How it Matters.
The Marquee Brothers, like successful auteur film directors, can dictate terms to the people who would ordinarily be their bosses giving the orders. I imagine Klein has a special button on his custom keyboard to message "assignment decline" back to Post editors when they ask for his section to do a story he's not interested in. Like film directors, the Marquee Brothers have capitalized on the erosion of old, reliable brands and the unbundling of news caused by, among other things, the advent of the Internet [....]
Comments
Totally agree. I've been intrigued by this phenomenon for a while. But I haven't figure out how to capitalize on it. ;)
by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 08/22/2013 - 2:28pm