Will the Metaverse save journalism?

A big and important post on the future of news. Or not.

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.

How do you tell Facebook and Google you’ve updated a story?

TL;DR issue 1

A weekly round-up of all you need to keep your engaged journalism skills sharp.

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.

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.

Premature Blogging Death Notice #357

Why do people keep trying to declare that blogging is dead?

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.

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.