The definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade. With the expert guidance of former Executive Editor ofTheNew York TimesJill Abramson, we follow two legacy (TheNew York TimesandThe Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeedandVICE) companies as they plow through a revolution in technology, economics, standards, commitment, and endurance that pits old vs. new media.Merchants of Truthis the groundbreaking and gripping story of the precarious state of the news business told by one of our most eminent journalists.Jill Abramson follows four companies:TheNew York Times, The Washington Post,BuzzFeed, andVICEMedia over a decade of disruption and radical adjustment. The new digital reality nearly kills two venerable newspapers with an aging readership while creating two media behemoths with a ballooning and fickle audience of millennials. We...