A horror image of people being zombified by a phone with TikTok on the screen.

Avoiding the TikTok trap Members Public

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?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
TikTok
Redundant journalists walking from the darkness into the light.

How to accidentally create a competitor Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Threads
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Tumblr fades and an AI badge is born Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
AI

TikTok hides the money Members Public

Plus AI is polluting search already, and the industry jobs bloodbath continues.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
AI

By-catch from the attention trawlers Members Public

While the MailOnline puts out vast nets of attention, the Telegraph is making audio agile. And what can we learn from dead podcasts?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
attention
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The AI view from Gaza Members Public

Fake images in real stories, niches fight lies and BeReal BeDoomed, in Friday's round up of audience and journalism news.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
AI
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Why I don't read the Press Gazette newsletter now Members Public

The problem with playing the platform game, even if it's a newsletter platform. And another reason to mistrust AI…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
substack
A platonic ideal of a journalist, probably.

How to journalist better Members Public

This issue guaranteed to be 100% Halloween free — unless you're really scared of AI content…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Journalism