Signal boost
Capital Brief has launched its fifth specialist newsletter, The Signal, covering the media and where it meets power, politics, policy and technology. Here's why the media still matters.
Media writing about media sometimes elicits a shrug from those who view the sector as a dying industry in an era of rapid technological change — or worse, a self-obsessed bubble.
But there’s a strong counter-argument that anyone interested in the economy writ large should pay close attention to the fourth estate, and the people and power structures that sit within it.
If you’re looking for a sector that cuts across finance and politics — a place where big tech, the government and the business establishment clash — it’s hard to look beyond media.
The media industry was the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the economy during the dot-com era. The shift from physical to digital impacted record labels, film studios and news publishers long before it hit sectors like bricks-and-mortar retail and transport.
