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What blogs do the world's top venture capitalists read? These are the most recommended blogs by top tech investors, and most are free to subscribe to.

Disney+ will not be a 'Netflix killer' because at this point, nothing can kill Netflix

Filmmaker Ron Howard and Jason Hirschhorn (Founder, REDEF) discuss the changing media landscape (and what hasn't changed), the evolution of Imagine Entertainment from a two-man production team to a venture-backed business, and the kinds of stories that drive Ron as a filmmaker.

Mellody Hobson (President, Ariel Investments) sits down with Jason Hirschhorn to discuss the influences and mentors over her career; the role of a board member in good times and in crisis; addressing diversity in businesses, community and content; and the future of media.

Hirschhorn discusses media moguls, the virtues of taking time off and how Netflix outsmarted the TV guys.

Discussion included startups outside silicon valley, great entrepreneurs, greatest public startups, protecting freedom of the press, politics, combatting online trolls and sports,

These are the investors, founders, and innovators shaping Silicon Alley in 2017.

ABC’s new head of enertainment is determined to win with a diverse lineup of TV shows that reflect what America really looks like

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Eric spoke again with ReDEF's Jason Hirschhorn about what Viacom and MTV used to be when he worked there in the early 2000s vs. what it has become today under Philippe Dauman. We discuss the Tom Freston days, what Shari Redstone has and might do, and how to turnaround the once great company.

Every year around the holidays journalists and bloggers around the world publish "top ten" lists or "annual buyer's guides" or similar. And every year I think about doing the same. But it's the holidays and I usually can't be bothered. Plus, after reading everybody else's list it feels pedestrian to publish mine.

Jason Hirschorn's media resume is impressive. He was once co-president of MySpace, president of Sling Media and an executive at MTV. Now he's taking his outstanding and popular Media REDEF curation service into new verticals -- what he calls interest mixes for curious minds.

I like my Bose SoundTrue around-ear headphones because they don't require batteries. I have two dogs and a fairly noisy house, so I put them on when I'm trying to meditate using the Meditation Timer app. My Nespresso Aeroccino milk steamer has pretty much changed my life.

Almost every day for the last 2,714 days, Jason Hirschhorn has sent out MediaREDEF, his email newsletter of the day's "must read" articles and assorted media. Jason missed a handful of days in the spring of 2012 when he suffered from severe double vision.

If you've never heard of Jason Hirschhorn-and it's unlikely that you have, unless you're deep into the disruptive clash of content and technology-you've probably heard of some of the people who hang on his every word. At the very least, you know the companies that Hirschhorn's acolytes run and their vast influence over how we live our lives and navigate the popular culture.

At a Paley Center for Media event this week, I listened to CNN anchor Brian Stelter probe Jason Hirschhorn on why he started MediaREDEF-- the daily media roundup that is fast becoming indispensable to people in our industry -- and where he was taking it next.

Brian Grazer is one of the most successful men in Hollywood's history. He's the producer behind movie classics like Splash, Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind as well as the recent television smash hit Empire. Combined, his work has been nominated for 43 Oscars® and 149 Emmys®. Yet, no matter what project he's working on or where his work takes him, Brian follows the same morning ritual he's had for the last 20 years. Each morning, Brian wakes up at 6 and drinks two glasses of water. Next, he drinks his coffee while eating apples and bananas. Then, Brian browses the Internet. "I read stories," he says. "All the things that are happening on the planet from, you know, important news sources. ... That gets me excited. It gets me wound up and gets me asking questions of myself." Watch as Brian explains what questions he begins to ask. Plus, hear what he has to say about the lesson that's taken him longest to learn.

I find myself talking about MediaREDEF a lot lately. I mentioned it in my newsletter yesterday, and in a wave of private conversations in the last few weeks. It usually comes up when someone is bitching that there's no good tech journalism anymore. "Sure there is," I say. "I get more than I can read everyday from Jason Hirschhorn."

We create interest mixes for curious minds. We want to learn, discover ideas and enjoy (and welcome) debate. DJing the internet with stuff didn't know you were interested in. We're super thankful when you notice. - The REDEF Team

On November 11th, 2014, REDEF CEO and Chief Curator Jason Hirschhorn talked to CNN's Brian Stelter about REDEF's growth and the future of media and technology. The Paley Media Council is an exclusive, invitation-only membership community for entertainment, media, and technology industry executives and provides an independent forum for top industry leaders to explore the evolving ways in which we create, consume, and connect through media and technology.

Former president of Myspace Jason Hirschhorn is no stranger to media. But before selling his company Mischief New Media in his twenties, and before stints at Viacom, MTV, News Corp, and Sling Media, Hirschhorn was a 17 year-old club promoter of the alcohol-free NYC dance club "The Saint."

Can you build a business on the Web by linking to stuff other people have made? Duh. Next question: Since everyone on the Web is linking to stuff other people have made, how do you build a new business doing that in 2014? That’s the one Jason Hirschhorn is trying to answer.

Entrepreneur Jason Hirschhorn has raised $2.25 million in debt financing from a host of media industry titans to expand his free daily media and tech e-mail newsletter into a subscription model. The newsletter, Media ReDEF (short for "redefined"), aggregates non-breaking, analytical content about all manner of media and technology, and includes tweets, videos and text links to controversial topics.

One of the more intriguing trends I've noted recently, particularly in the barrage of "email isn't dead" articles in the more mainstream press, is the emergence of the curated newsletter. It makes sense: every day we're inundated with interesting articles via social media, so there's a great appeal in having someone sift through the most interesting stuff and present a digest every day or week.

When you spend your day wading through social media streams, it's nice to discover new things that have been thoughtfully put together. And while we can all agree that "content curator" is a ridiculous descriptor, there are indeed some people who do a fantastic job of plucking the web's most awesome articles from the noise of the day.

Techmeme is nice. A bump from Reddit or LinkedIn is a traffic goldmine. But our CEO Sarah Lacy has repeatedly told us that the only curation she cares about is getting on Jason Hirschhorn's REDEF newsletter.

Email, what is it good for? Ask a Snapchat-obsessed #teen and the answer will likely be "absolutely nothing." But, for the olds, email is undergoing something of a renaissance. And it isn't just because the newest generation of spam filters actually work.

Technology giants like Facebook, LinkedIn and Amazon -- along with the data analysts at legacy media companies like Disney and Time Warner -- spend their days trying to seduce their audiences by creating ultra-targeted streams of news, television clips, opinions and other pop culture ephemera.

We're music nerds at Red Bull Music Academy, but we're also music journalism nerds. In this month's round-up of some of the best pieces we've come across, Piotr Orlov highlights the continuing conversation around Kendrick Lamar's new album and much more.

For the past few days, I have been thinking about the evolution of what media is and its expanded role in the information ecosystem. What got me thinking was Twitter co-founder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey's decision to blog his side of the story about his reduced role at Twitter.

Those of us in the tech-media swear by it. When we're included in it, our editor-in-chief Sarah Lacy says there's no metric for success she cares about more. It's Jason Hirschhorn's MediaREDEF newsletter/website and it collects forty of the best tech, media, business, and culture articles every day.

Nearly two decades into when many started using email, most of us still have our favorite newsletter and valuable info we get via the inbox. Jason Hirschhorn, who put MTV into the Internet age and later helped run Sling Media and MySpace, took a hobby and turned into a business around his great curated newsletter of interesting articles, video and stuff he puts together every day.

There is a] feeling that you're never done, and everyday you press publish you've missed something and that pisses you off. But the good thing is, it will never stop coming. Yes, there's The New York Times, but then there's also that blogger who's a developer at a certain company who writes a very salient piece about the industry.

But today we see something completely different from REDEF — original content. The brand has published a pseudonymously-written article called, “A REDEF ORIGINAL: If Video is Booming, Why are Revenues Evaporating?” Fittingly, it’s as excellent a read as something REDEF would normally curate, breaking down the video and film landscape in stark terms almost anyone can understand.

The creator of MediaREDEF, a must-read media newsletter, talks about where he's taking it next.

Sometimes, trends don't tell the first story. Trend #1: Email Overload An average business person sends or receives 108 emails a day, we waste 28 per cent of their time at work dealing with email and it's the bane of most worker's lives.

Mike Hudack, an executive at Facebook, went on a bit of a rant about the state of US media and how it is being slowly chipped away. He is right, mostly. Not surprisingly, his post got picked up across the social web and eventually became a poster child of the churnalism he was mocking.

News Corp. COO Peter Chernin reads it. So does NBC boss Ben Silverman. And so do hundreds of other media and tech execs and insiders. It's Sling Media Entertainment boss Jason Hirschhorn's Media ReDEFined email newsletter, and it's both simple and addictive: Every day Jason, a Web 1.0 vet who used to run MTV's digital operation, uses NewsGator to clip dozens of articles he finds interesting, then passes them along via Feedburner.

There's so much information out there. It's a challenge that each of us grapples with. The Internet is simply massive in size, and continually growing. On just about every conceivable topic, one can locate a limitless amount of content, giving the World Wide Web a never-ending feel.

Digital media has emerged over the last decade with an explosion of companies, platforms, investments and most importantly incredible global storytelling. While almost anyone, anywhere can launch a digital media company like the early days of the printing press, over the last three years a set of early winners have emerged with quick digital media consolidation happening under large media conglomerates around the world.

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