Ryan Broderick Launched Garbage Day in 2019 as Backup to Failing Digital Media Models
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Updated · The Washington Post · Jun 21
Ryan Broderick Launched Garbage Day in 2019 as Backup to Failing Digital Media Models
1 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Jun 21
Summary
2019 marked Ryan Broderick’s start of Garbage Day, a newsletter roundup focused on the internet’s oddities while he was still a tech reporter at BuzzFeed News.
Broderick built it as a backup plan after watching digital media companies flame out when they relied on a single funding source or on volatile platform algorithms.
Garbage Day’s name reflects that premise—part trash, part treasure of the web—and nods to a line from the 1987 slasher film “Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2.”
The launch underscores a broader shift described in the report: newsletter writers are emerging as a new generation of media entrepreneurs outside traditional digital outlets.