"The gulf between The Times and the rest of the industry is vast and keeps growing: The company now has more digital subscribers than The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and the 250 local Gannett papers combined, according to the most recent data. And The Times employs 1,700 journalists — a huge number in an industry where total employment nationally has fallen to somewhere between 20,000 and 38,000." "The Times so dominates the news business that it has absorbed many of the people who once threatened it: The former top editors of Gawker, Recode, and Quartz are all at The Times, as are many of the reporters who first made Politico a must-read in Washington." "I spent my whole career competing against The Times, so coming to work here feels a bit like giving in. And I worry that the success of The Times is crowding out the competition." Weird article published in the Times itself by a new hire, but interesting if there is some sort of quasi-monopoly emerging out of the crisis of legacy media outlets following the rise of social media. On the other hand, if the Times are just trying to seem like they've won the monopoly but it's not really true, that's also kinda interesting.