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.
Blogging
Premature Blogging Death Notice #357
Why do people keep trying to declare that blogging is dead?
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.
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.
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…
Video
I miss deadlines. Would you?
Some thoughts on B2B newsletters, the endless pivot to video, and Substack's growing moat.
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.
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.
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.