Jonathan Weber
@jsweber.bsky.social
Writer and editor in SF, previously EIC of the SF Standard, the Bay Citizen & the Industry Standard, founder of NewWest.Net. Author of upcoming book on SF in the internet era (S&S, June 2026). Editor at Large at Newcomer.
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city on the edge from @jsweber.bsky.social also looks good and if you are sensing a theme let's just say that there's a reason the sf library has ordered 100+ copies sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S9...
City on the Edge — San Francisco Public Library
City on the Edge — Weber, Jonathan (Newspaper editor), — "At the dawn of the 1990s, San Francisco was a beautiful if troubled mid-sized metropolis. The mythic, fog-shrouded city at the edge of the con...
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August 29, 2026 at 6:03 PM
city on the edge from @jsweber.bsky.social also looks good and if you are sensing a theme let's just say that there's a reason the sf library has ordered 100+ copies sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S9...
I worked for Reuters and it was the inverse, news org created a financial information business. That is a much better model! Bloomberg replicated Reuters from the other direction and did a great job.
July 11, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I worked for Reuters and it was the inverse, news org created a financial information business. That is a much better model! Bloomberg replicated Reuters from the other direction and did a great job.
Yes that is a very fair point! I guess I’d have to say exception that proves the rule.
July 11, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Yes that is a very fair point! I guess I’d have to say exception that proves the rule.
I respectfully disagree w/ the analysis. A news org owned by a fintech cannot have a "sustainable business model" no matter how good the journalism. News is not a good business, & trying to overcome that by using it to promote a not-very-adjacent product like a trading app is very unlikely to work.
July 11, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I respectfully disagree w/ the analysis. A news org owned by a fintech cannot have a "sustainable business model" no matter how good the journalism. News is not a good business, & trying to overcome that by using it to promote a not-very-adjacent product like a trading app is very unlikely to work.
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