Art of The Long View: Media Company of 2020 (video), which is a discussion between professor Jonathan Taplin, Peter Chernin (former President and COO of News Corp.), and Gordon Crawford (managing director of The Capital Group), is an excellent video. The description of the video on YouTube says: “This conversation will attempt to understand the long term effects of technological change on the American communications business.”
It’s a candid conversation that is worth watching for anyone interested in media, technology, business, or journalism.
I left the video feeling that this is an incredibly special time for the media industry. And while there’s likely to be change in the (perhaps very near) future, I’ll take the glass-is-half-full approach and say the media industry is ripe with opportunity.
You can watch the video here. (Note: it’s about an hour long.)