Sam Talks Technology

Sam Sethi and  Martin Bryant discussed the future of journalism, podcasting paywalls, subscriptions, libra payments and fakenews.It's clear more and more newspapers are moving to paywalls to replace their dwindling ad-revenue. Is the freemium model dead? Will bloggers and podcasters follow suit as they look to monetise their content.We also discussed the recent launch of Facebook News. Having failed with Instant Articles before, will Facebook News succeed or be just another tab on Facebook wall that no one reads. Facebook News joins a growing band of news aggregation portals recently launched including Apple News+ and Amazon News on their FireTV. We also discussed the challenge of fake news and if there was anyway to prevent it.