SEO SEO: AMP’s days are numbered Since 2014, publishers have felt obliged to publish Accelerated Mobile Pages to get good news search traffic. Those days may well be over. Adam Tinworth Nov 22, 2021 2 min read
tl;dr newsletter TL;DR Issue 4: Plagarism, Twitter goes blue, and a journalist gets punched in the face A busy week in social media, journalism and the creator economy. Here it is, all nicely -pre-digested for you. Adam Tinworth Nov 11, 2021 4 min read
Featured Coping with newsroom stress Headlines Network is launching a series of workshops this week to help journalists cope better with mental health issues. I talked to director John Crowley about the problems and possibilities inherent in the pandemic. Adam Tinworth Nov 8, 2021 7 min read
tl;dr newsletter TL;DR Issue 3: The “how the hell am I 50?” edition A big day for me. A load of interesting links for you. Everyone wins. Probably. Adam Tinworth Nov 6, 2021 2 min read
Instagram Links from Instagram Stories available to all Instagram finally gives every account the ability to use link stickers. Time to rethink the platform as an acquisition tool. Adam Tinworth Nov 2, 2021 3 min read
metaverse Will the Metaverse save journalism? A big and important post on the future of news. Or not. Adam Tinworth Oct 29, 2021 2 min read
tl;dr newsletter TL;DR #2 — the plague house edition A round-up of the week's reading about journalism and the creator economy. And we don't get Meta. Adam Tinworth Oct 29, 2021 2 min read
tl;dr newsletter TL;DR issue 1 A weekly round-up of all you need to keep your engaged journalism skills sharp. Adam Tinworth Oct 21, 2021 2 min read
apple Apple’s much-needed MacBook Pro reverse ferret Apple finally reverses the mistakes of half a decade of poor laptop design. And about bloody time. Adam Tinworth Oct 18, 2021 2 min read
technical tips Writing headlines for search: the latest changes Google's been messing around with how it displays headlines in search results. Here's what you need to know. Adam Tinworth Oct 18, 2021 4 min read
blogging Premature Blogging Death Notice #357 Why do people keep trying to declare that blogging is dead? Adam Tinworth Oct 12, 2021 1 min read
climate crisis Making climate crisis journalism better: the launch of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network We need to get better at integrating the impact of the climate crisis into all our journalism. And a new initiative from the Reuters Institute should help. Adam Tinworth Oct 12, 2021 2 min read
audience strategy Why did some publishers gain traffic from the Facebook outage? Despite many publishers using Facebook to attract readers, some sites saw a boost from the extended outage last night. And some took a hit. Here's why. Adam Tinworth Oct 5, 2021 5 min read
facebook Single point of (Facebook) failure Facebook has wiped itself, WhatsApp and Instagram off the internet. And the longer they stay down, the more some publishers will be suffering… Adam Tinworth Oct 4, 2021 4 min read
video I miss deadlines. Would you? Some thoughts on B2B newsletters, the endless pivot to video, and Substack's growing moat. Adam Tinworth Sep 21, 2021 5 min read
stress Stress and burnout in post-pandemic journalism The summer's nearly over, and as people return to their desks, we need to start asking ourselves some hard questions about how hybrid working will change our working lives. Adam Tinworth Sep 8, 2021 7 min read
Weekly Digest: the calm before the crisis A week's worth of useful reading on audience strategy and online publishing. Plus a pretty photo at the top. Bonus. Adam Tinworth Aug 12, 2021 4 min read
Marcus Rashford, The Spectator hoax and the power of confirmation bias For a story we know next to nothing about for sure, a Spectator piece that was never published has occupied a huge amount of media attention. Adam Tinworth Aug 6, 2021 6 min read
Members only links Lunchtime links: subs, Google News and the problem with Wikipedia It must be the silly season. LinkedIn is getting into subs? Plus some useful stuff on Google News and a critical look at the media/Wikipedia intersection Adam Tinworth Aug 2, 2021 4 min read
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