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David Skok

CEO & Editor-in-Chief

Before founding The Logic in 2018, David Skok was the associate editor and head of editorial strategy at the Toronto Star. He has also served as the managing editor and vice-president of digital for the Boston Globe, and as the co-creator and director of digital for Global News. David is a leading thinker on digital transformation who co-published a seminal paper on disruption in the news industry with the Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. David sits on the advisory board for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and has served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism.

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Articles by David Skok

Letter from the editor: The love story behind Room Rater, the social media hit of the pandemic

https://thelogic.co/commentary/letter-from-the-editor-the-love-story-behind-room-rater-the-social-media-hit-of-the-pandemic/

By David Skok | Dec 19, 2020

‘Getting to know each other in a working relationship, it’s become a life for us’

Letter from the editor: Vineyard diplomacy against China’s ‘bullying’

https://thelogic.co/commentary/letter-from-the-editor-vineyard-diplomacy-against-chinas-bullying/

By David Skok | Dec 5, 2020

Canada can learn from the deterioration of ties between Beijing and Canberra

Letter from the editor: The false choice between our health and our businesses

https://thelogic.co/commentary/letter-from-the-editor-the-false-choice-between-our-health-and-our-businesses/

By David Skok | Nov 21, 2020

Politicians and journalists are pitting two groups against each other, both of whom only want what’s best for the country

Letter from the editor: Why paying by the article makes for bad journalism

https://thelogic.co/commentary/letter-from-the-editor-why-paying-by-the-article-makes-for-bad-journalism/

By David Skok | Nov 7, 2020

It helps to think of journalism’s business model as a two-sided marketplace, like a gig-economy delivery app

Letter from the editor: The canary in the cobalt mine

https://thelogic.co/commentary/letter-from-the-editor-the-canary-in-the-cobalt-mine/

By David Skok | Oct 24, 2020

Letter from the editor: What MEC’s new owners can learn from an uprising of New England supermarket workers

https://thelogic.co/commentary/letter-from-the-editor-what-mecs-new-owners-can-learn-from-an-uprising-of-new-england-supermarket-workers/

By David Skok | Oct 10, 2020

Employees are playing an increasingly important role in how their companies are shaped and what values they deem important

Letter from the editor: Not all cookies are bad for you

https://thelogic.co/commentary/letter-from-the-editor-not-all-cookies-are-bad-for-you/

By David Skok | Sep 26, 2020

A new tool that scans websites for ad trackers can be misleading

Letter from the editor: The long, cold winter ahead

https://thelogic.co/commentary/letter-from-the-editor-the-long-cold-winter-ahead/

By David Skok | Sep 12, 2020

A brief semblance of normalcy may give way to a long economic malaise

Briefing

The Athletic hits one million paying subscribers

https://thelogic.co/briefing/the-athletic-hits-one-million-paying-subscribers/

By David Skok | Sep 9, 2020

Briefing

Google warns Australian news rule threatens free search services

https://thelogic.co/briefing/google-warns-australian-news-rule-threatens-free-search-services/

By David Skok | Aug 17, 2020