Audience Strategy: News Links #1 Some links, mainly for MA Interactive Journalism students on the Audience Strategy module… Adam Tinworth Jan 27, 2023 2 min read
Accountability for my TikTok Heresy Plus some explanation of why social platforms go bad, and how the FT’s Mastodon experiment died. Adam Tinworth Jan 26, 2023 4 min read
Members only The readers write: on newsletter fights, due credit and AI in the newsroom Question and feedback from readers on newsletters, AI, local journalism and TikTok. Adam Tinworth Jan 25, 2023 4 min read
podcasting Why open rates, keywords and Twitter are the past — and podcasting has a great future It's time to stop clinging to the publishing wisdom of the past. And the decline in new podcasts is not the bad news it looks on the surface. Adam Tinworth Jan 24, 2023 4 min read
Featured publishing Four things publishers should give up in 2023 Digital publishing moves so fast it can be hard to keep track of what works, and what doesn’t. Here are the things you need to be letting go of right now. Adam Tinworth Jan 24, 2023 5 min read
Why newsletters are just getting started As if Monday couldn’t get any worse, here’s a video interview with me about newsletters… Adam Tinworth Jan 23, 2023 3 min read
Journalism’s year of chaos continues Then story of what went on inside Twitter after the Musk takeover, CNET’s AI teething issues and… journalist Barbie? Adam Tinworth Jan 18, 2023 5 min read
Google versus AI copy: fight! Will Google see Ai copy as spam? Is the Fediverse more than Mastodon? Do newsletters need a clear value proposition? All these questions violate Betteridge's Law… Adam Tinworth Jan 17, 2023 5 min read
Lunch’n’Link #3: Newsletters 1, Twitter API 0 Reach finally hits on the right strategy for local audiences - and Elon Musk continues to wreak havoc on the the Twitter ecosystem Adam Tinworth Jan 13, 2023 3 min read
AI journalism is here and writing on an iPad The robots! They're writing! Do you hear me? THEY'RE WRITING OUR STORIES! Adam Tinworth Jan 12, 2023 5 min read
SEO The case against guest posting Beware emails offering free posts. The cost might be much higher than you think… Adam Tinworth Jan 12, 2023 2 min read
newsletters Moving from Revue to other platforms for editorial publishers Revue will be dead by the middle of January. You only have a few days left to migrate your newsletter. Here's three great choices for you. Adam Tinworth Jan 6, 2023 6 min read
Featured year in review One Man & His Blog’s top 10 posts of 2022 2022 was all about two stories: the rise of newsletters and the fall of social media. Here's how that played out on my site. Adam Tinworth Jan 4, 2023 7 min read
Twitter Musk disbands Twitter Trust & Safety Council Twitter is rapidly becoming Elon Musk’s personal plaything. Dissenting opinions on its management are not required. Adam Tinworth Dec 13, 2022 2 min read
Twitter Five things we learnt from The Twitter Files After nearly a week of “revelatory” Twitter threads, what have we actually learnt? Adam Tinworth Dec 12, 2022 5 min read
brand journalism The end of Future Andreessen Horowitz’s short-lived foray into tech journalism is over. When even VCs don’t see a future in tech hype media, what does that mean for the rest of us? Adam Tinworth Dec 6, 2022 2 min read
7 things I learned from the Media Moments 2022 report The annual Media Moments report from the Media Voices crew is here - here’s the highlights. Adam Tinworth Nov 30, 2022 4 min read
Twitter It’s really time to stop embedding tweets in articles Things are changing so fast under Elon Musk, embedding Tweets may no longer be safe, if they're important to the story Adam Tinworth Nov 16, 2022 1 min read
social media Social media isn’t dead — it’s regenerating Despite Twitter and Meta’s troubles, humanity’s desire to create and share will not diminish. They’ll just find new ways of connecting. And they already are. Adam Tinworth Nov 15, 2022 7 min read
mastodon Mastodon servers for journalists Looking for a Mastodon Instance to begin your journey in the fediverse as a journalist? You’ve come to the right place! Adam Tinworth Nov 11, 2022 3 min read