{"id":89,"date":"2015-11-06T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T15:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berthamagazine.com\/frontpage\/?p=89"},"modified":"2016-01-27T18:29:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T22:29:13","slug":"grantland-and-the-surprising-future-of-publishing-stratechery-by-ben-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berthamagazine.com\/frontpage\/grantland-and-the-surprising-future-of-publishing-stratechery-by-ben-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Grantland and the (Surprising) Future of Publishing &#8211; Stratechery by Ben Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wdqs wdqs_link wdqs-link-container\">\n<p class=\"wdqs-link-to-source\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2015\/grantland-and-the-surprising-future-of-publishing\/?mod=e2this\"<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wdqs-thumbnail-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2015\/grantland-and-the-surprising-future-of-publishing\/?mod=e2this\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"758\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.berthamagazine.com\/frontpage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-5-1024x758.jpg?resize=1024%2C758\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"wdqs-text-container\">\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s decision to close Grantland seems to be more evidence that there is no future outside of massive scale or one-man operations. 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