layout: post permalink: /2017/09/the-music-business-is-back-are-there-clues-for-news/ title: The music business is back; are there clues for news? date: 2017-09-21 09:20:27 -0000 last_modified_at: 2017-09-21 09:25:12 -0000 publish: true pin: false categories:

• Adversity is a mean teacher tags:
• business model
• music
• news `— The music business has been growing for the last few years after going into a decline in 1999. And it doesn’t have to do with buying MP3s. The news and music industries have long been compared; they were disrupted by the Internet at about the same time and forever changed.

Are there still lessons to be learned between the two industries. Would a “Spotify model” work for news? Some efforts have been tried and failed from traditional media companies, the tech powers that control the platforms and entrepreneurial startups.