social & digital lunchbreak
Who's afraid of the small, average Apple News+?
A storm in a teacup around changes coming to Apple's news app, some thoughts on Reels, and a toxicity round-up. Happy Monday!
X (Twitter)
Five Morning Links #3: investigative podcasts, Twitter metrics and newsletter strategy secrets
More useful reads to make your morning coffee feel really useful — as well as tasty.
Facebook
Five Morning Links #2: Unleash the Zuckercopier
Is this the Reels life? Or is it just Facebook fantasy?
coronavirus pandemic
Covid-19, schools, and the dangers of unintentional misinformation
Not all misinformation is intentional. Sometimes the angle we take on a story, and the headline we use, can leave completely the wrong impression in a reader's mind.
SEO
Why Google's Core Web Vitals update is going to hit medium-sized publishers hard
Major changes are coming to Google next year - and the technical burden of them are likely to fall disproportionatly on the middle rank of publishers.
newsletters
What the new newsletters can learn from the early days of blogging
Today's newsletters look more and more like the early days of blogging - but with one missing ingredient.
Facebook judges you, Google neglects you and AI gets blogged
Social networks are arbitrating who is a journalist and who isn't - again. And more essential news for digital journalists from around the web.