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Adam Tinworth
Adam is a digital journalism lecturer, trainer and writer. He's been a blogger for over 25 years, a journalist for 30 and teaches audience strategy and engagement at City St George’s, London.
Journalism
Trust me, I’m a journalist
We're labouring under the illusion that the public trust us. Time to wake up.
AI
How are audiences feeling about AI in 2025?
More research showing just how wary audiences are of AI being used in journalism
quartz
Quartz finally burns out
A moment's silence for one of the great 2010s journalism innovators
Book recommendations: Drax & Meta
How money from the slave trade is still influencing British politics — and the inside story of the people in Facebook that ended up upending society.
AI
Meta pirated books — and trained AI on them.
And it looks like some of mine were in there.
Seeking refuge from the technofeudalist attention economy – in print
Print doesn't have to die for digital to win.
AI
The AI trap has closed around Apple. Don’t be next.
Apple tried to make AI a personal answer engine. It failed. It's a warning to all businesses.
The humour and morality void at the heart of Meta
A new book is confirming every dark suspicion we had about Facebook
fediverse
The federated One Man & His Blog
If you haven't heard of ActivityPub yet, now might be the time to start paying attention
AI: Take a guess
LLMs are, in essence, guessing machines. They work by determining what’s probably the answer. And that means they’re great for ideas — and terrible for facts.
Media mutatis
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.