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A Fond and Grateful Farewell

Welcome to the finale of Peter Osnos’ Platform on Medium. Starting on January 10, this will become a newsletter appearing regularly on Substack. Here’s the reasoning:

Social media and digital delivery are a 21st century phenomenon. It is hard to fully…

The Drapes Are Going to Kill You….

If everything is a crisis, then nothing is a crisis — until now. We are engulfed in a genuine crisis of the very greatest magnitude — health, economic, political, racial. And yet it is hard to grasp the scale of this moment because we have devalued the meaning of…

“West Side Story” And Our Morale Crisis

As soon as the new Broadway production of “West Side Story” was announced last fall, which…

Ben Smith Takes the Podium

The first appearance of Ben Smith’s Media Equation column in the New York Times is headlined “Why the Success of…

A Debate Closer for the Ages?

On August 8, it will be 45 years since Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, driven from office by the…

The Resilience of Analog

Analog (adjective): “Not involving or relating to the use of computer technology, as a contrast to a digital…

Navigating Non-Profit News

From 2006 until 2014, Platform was the name of a regular column on journalism, publishing and developments in technology hosted by The Century Foundation where I was a media fellow. The column also appeared at The Daily Beast and then theatlantic.com where I was a contributing…