Media mutatis Members Public

A new season of OM&HB is coming your way. And this might be the most interesting time to be writing about media in the two decades I've been posting here.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth

Audience Strategy: further reading (listening?) Members Public

More bonus links for my students, with a distinct MAGA world theme…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
podcasts
A Shiba Inu dog (the DOGE dog) rests upon the White House as storm clouds gather

We are become meme Members Public

Internet culture has infected and mutated mainstream culture — and the shitposters have the reins of power. Meme journalism used to be a joke. Now it's a necessity.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Politics
Wifredo Fernandez, senior director for government affairs, X talking to a parliamentary select committee

Caught between a Musk and a hard place Members Public

Following the diktats of the MemeMan gets much harder under the harsh eye of parliamentary scrutiny.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
X (Twitter)
The earliest known image of a coffeehouse dated to 1674, showing the kind of coffeehouse familiar to Samuel Pepys.

Your coffee reading, or the Monday linkdump Members Public

For your amusement and edification as you sip your coffee

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
cms
A young person wearing a hoodie. Surrounding their head are floating icons of technology, books, clocks, and devices.

Audience Strategy: further reading Members Public

Some links, mainly for my Audience Strategy students - but of possible interest to others.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
audience strategy
A would-be indie journalist burns a platform's money

A little newsletter scepticism Members Public

Beehiiv is going to give journalists financial support. Those who don't remember history are doomed to etc etc etc

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
A beautiful redhead elf swoons into the arms of a dark warrior. And this is tame by romantasy standards

TikTok made me love it Members Public

A new genre of fiction is filling up the bestseller lists. And guess what's putting it there?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
TikTok