The music business is back; are there clues for 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.

No one does it alone

From StoryCorps and NPR:

“As soon as we got into the school, the principal was calling the roll. He said, ‘Bill Weaver,’ and I said, ‘My name is William.’ And he said, ‘Oh, you’re a smart N-word.’ I’d been in school maybe 30 minutes and he suspended me,” Weaver, 67, says, while recounting his first day at school during a recent visit to StoryCorps.

Weaver, who is now the chief of surgery at Fayetteville VA Medical Center in North Carolina, says he doesn’t remember a day that a teacher didn’t tell him that he “didn’t belong.”