Jeff Israely: Getting paid means some work for brands and it’s O.K. to talk about that
It is only the latest, though perhaps most complicated, chapter of the marriage of convenience between advertising and news.
By Jeff Israely@jeffisraely April 5, 2021, 9:07 a.m.
April 5, 2021, 9:07 a.m.
Editor’s note: Jeff Israely, a former Time magazine foreign correspondent in Europe, is the cofounder of a news company called Worldcrunch in Paris. For the past 11 years, he’s been describing and commenting on the startup process here at Nieman Lab. Read all his past installments here.
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