The news and entertainment industry is in a period of massive transition driven by social, mobile, and digital technology. Although these shifts feel chaotic and unpredictable, there are many historical precedents of new distribution technologies dramatically changing creative industries. This talk will look at the early "golden era" of several industries: newspapers and magazines in the first decades of the 20th century; the Hollywood studio system in the 20s, 30s, and 40s; and the cable TV industry in the early 1980s. It is hard to remember that the massive media companies of today were once small, rapidly growing startups, that thrived because they forged a unique marriage between content and new distribution technologies.
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