[magashna]

>So why should media companies hire and publish quant journalists? There's no good reason.

So that you can take them seriously. Then again, modern journalism is such a joke I don't know if this is a worthy endeavor

[kube-system]

Do they need you to take them seriously in order to support their revenue stream?

[marcosdumay]

Advertisers used to have to take them seriously. But thanks to the new revolution of commoditized ads, they don't anymore.