The Economist Starts Blogging

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth

Via Fleet Sreet 2.0 (which is a great name for an interesting blog), I note that The Economist has given us two blogs:

The Good: Both comments and trackbacks on, nice writing style, loads of links. Oh, and intelligent comments in the debate.

The Bad: Register-to-comment. Boo.

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Adam is a digital journalism lecturer, trainer and writer. He's been a blogger for over 20 years, a journalist for 30 and teaches audience strategy and engagement at City St George’s, London.

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Adam is a digital journalism lecturer, trainer and writer. He's been a blogger for over 20 years, a journalist for 30 and teaches audience strategy and engagement at City St George’s, London.