"I think it's a conflict for prior generations of media professionals," said Forrester's McQuivey.
We were having this conversation at Balthazar, another sceney downtown restaurant, which serves as Denton's second office — a place to be seen, as Michael's, in midtown, and Elaine's, on the Upper East Side, have been for earlier generations of media heavies.
He said that BuzzFeed is part of a wave: "When you're looking at Mashable and BuzzFeed, you're looking at clones of each other – frivolity of some types of content and seriousness of others, and advertorial that previous generations of media companies would have considered gauche".
We were having this conversation at Balthazar, another sceney downtown restaurant, which serves as Denton's second office a place to be seen, as Michael's, in midtown, and Elaine's, on the Upper East Side, have been for earlier generations of media heavies.
Or will those colossi totter and collapse like Ozymandias, only to be replaced by an endless series of flashes in the pan, as new generations of media organizations just keep on evolving and emerging, faster and faster, each one devouring the previous?
The young doctor has his tongue firmly planted in his cheek most of the time, poking fun at the the cycles of technophobia parents go through every generation with successive generations of media and display technologies.
"Put Madison Avenue on warning," Ms. Samples said, "a new generation of media savvy kids are about to hit the streets".
The fund will invest in early stage businesses focused on developing the next generation of media technology.
Update 4.10pm: "A spokesperson for Bauer Media said the company "has a number of initiatives... which aim to nurture the next generation of media talent.
Beyond the reach of mainstream authority and tradition, an entire cadre of the next generation of media titans was taking their ease.
