newsletters

Saving local news, one newsletter at a time

Local newsletters for local people, as The League of Gentlemen never said. Plus, AMP is dead, and Threads is rapidly developing…

reuters institute

The pandemic changed newsrooms. But did it change them the right way?

New research from the Reuters Institute shows us that newsrooms have become more flexible post-pandemic, but not how that flexibility is being used.

Blogging

What if the Twitter replacement isn’t a Twitter clone?

Twitter's growth was fuelled by making it easier to publish micro blog posts there than on a website. That was a trap, and we fell into it.

AI

The AI pendulum keeps swinging

When will publisher learn that AI isn't a quick fix for cheap content? Plus changes at the BBC, an SEO apocalypse and more.

Blogging

The problem with Automattic’s 100 year plan

Many bloggers and web creators want their work to persist after their death. But can they really pay $38,000?

Google seeks hidden gems, and YouTube polices AI

YouTube is policing AI, LinkedIn is getting personal — and so is Google?

TikTok

Avoiding the TikTok trap

TikTok is both a necessity to reaching younger audiences, and a platform we should be incredibly wary of. How do we reconcile these two facts?

Threads

How to accidentally create a competitor

What’s to stop a bunch of people you just laid off from launching a competitor? Almost nothing, it turns out…

AI

Tumblr fades and an AI badge is born

Tumblr and Jezebel head to the great electronic compost heap, while Humane wants to replace our phone with an AI pin.