When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism

When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism
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Chris Hughes was a mythical savior—boyishly innocent, fantastically rich, intellectually curious, unexpectedly humble, and proudly idealistic.

My entire career at the New Republic had been spent dreaming of such a benefactor. For years, my colleagues and I had sputtered our way through the internet era, drifting from one ownership group to the next, each eager to save the magazine and its historic mission as the intellectual organ for hard-nosed liberalism. But these investors either lacked the resources to invest in our future or didn't have quite enough faith to fully commit. The unending search for patronage exhausted me, and in 2010, I resigned as editor.

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