Saving Games Journalism With Giant Bomb
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Saving Games Journalism With Giant Bomb

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Dan Ryckert, Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb, the new owners of gaming website Giant Bomb, to talk about the hopeful, independent future for games journalism - and media at large.

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