culture wars
Cultural jargon is still jargon
It's easier than ever to connect with fellow journalists. But does that mean it's too easy to get disconnected from our audiences?
community management
Substack buys in community management expertise
The VC-backed newsletter firm has acquired community management consultants People & Company
newsletters
Six things I've learnt from newsletters in the last week
It's not all posturing and culture war opinion-making, you know.
audience development
There's more to newspapers than news
You'll need more than news to build a great audience revenue model.
X (Twitter)
Twitter is regenerating — time to start paying attention again
Twitter launching Spaces and acquiring Scroll shows a new vision of the service coming together. But let's pour one out for Nuzzel (RIP), too.
Facebook
Local news, for local people, by local creators (sponsored by Facebook)
Facebook's local news investment, Greenwald's Yes, Minster moment and more news from the "new media" trenches.
newsletters
Why newsletters won't kill newspapers
And why unbundling the opinion columnists might be a good thing for news in general.
Social Media
Performative power versus persuasive dialogue on social media
Ezra Klein's latest podcast delves deep into the social complexities of the behaviours lumped under the banner of "cancel culture"
Apple just changed the ad market — forever
iOS 14.5 is live, the update that Facebook has been campaigning against for months. Is this good or bad news for publishers?