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Scott Nover reports on Ryan Broderick, a tech reporter at BuzzFeed News, who created 'Garbage Day' in 2019 as a backup plan while witnessing the decline of digital media companies reliant on unstable funding or algorithms. The newsletter highlights the oddities of the internet and references a quote from the 1987 slasher film 'Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2.'

Democracy Dies in Darkness

By Scott Nover

Ryan Broderick has watched digital media companies flame out — beholden to a single source of funding or a fickle algorithm.

So in 2019, he decided to craft a backup plan, while still working as a tech reporter at BuzzFeed News. Broderick started a newsletter roundup of the web’s oddities with a pleasantly putrid name: Garbage Day, an ode to the trash and treasure of the internet (and a nod to a quotable line in the 1987 slasher film “Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2.“)

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