Week in Review: Vendors, Values & Vanishing News

The weekend’s a good time to slow down—or catch up. Whether you missed a post, meant to share one with a colleague, or just want to revisit something that stuck with you, here’s everything I published this week on Backstory & Strategy:

📌 “Vendors Send Invoices. Partners Share.”
The best collaborations—inside or outside your org—don’t come with a sales pitch. They come with skin in the game.

📌 “We Can Explain Your Money, But Not Our Own.”
Journalists have long been trained to ignore the business side. That wall doesn’t work anymore—especially for independents.

📌 “Do I Live in a News Desert?”
A hyperlocal deep dive into how media markets define who matters—and who gets ignored.M

📌 “Whatever Happened to Thought Leadership?”
Before the algorithm, there was the blogroll. What we lost when thought leadership became a performance instead of a practice.

📌 “Stay in the Room.”
A quieter piece on discomfort, leadership, and the discipline of presence.

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Back Monday with something new.

—Yoni

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