You beat me to it. Every Journalism-ism article on Discourse or Defector should link back to this, or the "This Is How Things Work" article, from the old site.
Granted, I am an environmental scientist and don't have the background/training, but can anyone explain how "...supply chain issues reduce advertising and marketing budgets..."? I don't see the cause-and-effect here. Does P&O control online ad buys? Does Maersk determine with whom conference calls will be held? I don't get this. The best I can come up with is...Sunday paper coupon inserts that are printed in far away lands?
My guess is that what he means is that companies that would be advertising on Vox are less able to do so because the money that would normally be going to advertisting and marketing are instead going to pay for diesel and warehouse storage and whatever, maybe?
You could very easily be right. But I guess reductum ad absurdum-wise, that can be used as an excuse pretty much at any time. Bond markets down? Lay 'em off. Fed raised the prime lending rate? Lay 'em off. Sunspots? Definitely lay 'em off (especially those pesky tech geeks).
Greenwell’s article proves prescient once more:
https://deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584.
You beat me to it. Every Journalism-ism article on Discourse or Defector should link back to this, or the "This Is How Things Work" article, from the old site.
It’s amazing (and sad) how applicable they were, are, and continue to be. Times change and things don’t change.
Granted, I am an environmental scientist and don't have the background/training, but can anyone explain how "...supply chain issues reduce advertising and marketing budgets..."? I don't see the cause-and-effect here. Does P&O control online ad buys? Does Maersk determine with whom conference calls will be held? I don't get this. The best I can come up with is...Sunday paper coupon inserts that are printed in far away lands?
My guess is that what he means is that companies that would be advertising on Vox are less able to do so because the money that would normally be going to advertisting and marketing are instead going to pay for diesel and warehouse storage and whatever, maybe?
You could very easily be right. But I guess reductum ad absurdum-wise, that can be used as an excuse pretty much at any time. Bond markets down? Lay 'em off. Fed raised the prime lending rate? Lay 'em off. Sunspots? Definitely lay 'em off (especially those pesky tech geeks).
I guess it just seems like a weirdly phrased excuse as oddly enough, vox.com is advertising for a business development associate director: https://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/4260493?gh_jid=4260493
Anyway...
Haha true enough. Full disclosure, I did also just accept a job with Vox but I haven't started yet