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Media Voices: Skift CEO Rafat Ali on paid content and the perils of VC funding

Media Voices: Skift CEO Rafat Ali on paid content and the perils of VC funding

The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices

November 5, 201838m 53sExplicit

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Show Notes

This week we hear from Rafat Ali, co-founder and CEO of boutique travel publisher Skift. We spoke about what connects the dots between paid content, travel, dining and wellness, his belief in trendlines not headlines, his long-term aspirations for Skift vs short-term VC plays and why he wants to be useless to his business. In the news round-up we put a bow on the discussion about Waitrose Magazine’s editor quitting over comments he made to a freelancer, discuss whether Channel 4’s move to Leeds will pop the London media bubble, and discuss whether Facebook is more powerful than the British parliament.