engaged reading digest
Engaged Reading Digest: Memes, cancel culture and baby Yoda
Memes aren't just juvenile fun - they're a potent weapon in the political armory, and we have to start taking them seriously.
podcasting
News podcasts: profitable and engaging — but have we got the format right?
New research from the Reuters Institute suggests that publishers are waking up to the opportunity for greater audience engagement through podcasting - but are they taking the right approach?
attention
Why completion matters to digital journalism
There's a psychological impact of completion we ignore at our peril
machine learning
Deepfakes aren't the problem yet - their existence is
The mere existence of deepfakes is undermining our sense of reality and truth
SEO
SEO Update #2: structured data, more on BERT and (gasp) the algorithm changes…
What you need to know in the world of SEO this week…
engaged journalism
Engaged Reading Digest: walking up the subs hill, radicalization on Reddit and more
More useful reads from the audience engagement mines.
crowd funding
Diverse journalism is better journalism: so please back PressPad
It's getting harder to get into journalism. That's not just down to the popularity of the profession, but the decline in routes in for those who aren't wealthy. PressPad is trying to fix that.
china
Isabel Hilton: what the UK can learn from China's Discourse War
Isabel Hilton's James Cameron memorial lecture at City's journalism department challenged journalists to rise to the challenge of a global information war
computational photography
Removing the water from underwater photos
Computational photography raises some fascinating questions about what is real.