The Times tames trolls with the power of naming Paid Members Public
The results of The Times’s experiment in enforcing real names in comments look promising, and the EU starts looking warily at TikTok.
Let the AIs write the quizzes. We’ll do the newsletters… Paid Members Public
Buzzfeed's quizzes just read like they're generated by AIs at the moment. But in the future — they will be. At least we can still write newsletters.
Audience Strategy: News Links #1 Paid Members Public
Some links, mainly for MA Interactive Journalism students on the Audience Strategy module…
Accountability for my TikTok Heresy Paid Members Public
Plus some explanation of why social platforms go bad, and how the FT’s Mastodon experiment died.
The readers write: on newsletter fights, due credit and AI in the newsroom Paid Members Public
Question and feedback from readers on newsletters, AI, local journalism and TikTok.
Why open rates, keywords and Twitter are the past — and podcasting has a great future Paid Members Public
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.
Four things publishers should give up in 2023 Paid Members Public
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.
Readers Write: on comment toxicity and TikTok arguments Paid Members Public
The important figures The Times omitted, evidence of real name toxicity and more feedback from readers