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Media Executive and Publisher
About Douglas Dery
In 2013, Douglas Dery launched *Signal Line*, the first ad-free, reader-supported digital magazine built entirely on open-source CMS infrastructure, pre-dating Substack’s rise by four years, and sustained it for seven years without venture capital or paywalls. He didn’t just publish writers; he reverse-engineered editorial economics, designing royalty structures that paid contributors per engaged minute rather than per click or pageview. His 2019 white paper 'The Latency Tax' exposed how algorithmic curation erodes long-form attention spans and directly influenced the EU’s Digital Services Act provisions on content ranking transparency. Dery operates from a belief that media sustainability isn’t about scale, it’s about calibrated friction: enough gatekeeping to preserve voice, enough openness to prevent gatekeeping. He’s advised three independent news co-ops on migrating from legacy CMS to federated publishing protocols, and his newsletter *Margin Notes* has never accepted sponsored content, not once since its 2016 inception.
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