How the Humble Coffee House Birthed Modern Media and Society

An extra chapter from ‘The Attention Merchants’ explains the connection between your morning coffee and your morning news

Tim Wu
Marker
Published in
10 min readNov 19, 2019

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Illustration: Oscar Bolton Green

In this unpublished chapter from Tim Wu’s The Attention Merchants, Wu explains how the coffeehouse came to be not just a social hub, but the center of news

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Tim Wu
Marker

Professor at Columbia University; author of “The Curse of Bigness,” “The Attention Merchants,” and “The Master Switch;” veteran of Silicon Valley & Obama Admin.