The last couple of years of campaigning – especially the last UK general election, the Scottish referendum with its “cyber-nats”, the Brexit vote and the Trump election – have made it plain to many that there’s a new set of elements…
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Journalism is losing the culture war, because it's fighting last century's battles
The Guardian’s SnowCuck-General* Martin Belam has hit the nail on the head with some of the problems inherent to the current fact-checking culture in response to a political movement prepared to flat-out lie to us: […] I’m reminded of…
Mirror takes an axe to digital new formats team
Apparently the Mirror has had enough of experimentation: Sources close to the online team told BuzzFeed News that they believe Picton’s vision for The Mirror’s websites is based around the MailOnline model, so the current crop of brands…
Your five minute Mail hate
A Gawker piece by James King is doing the rounds today, highlighting the “ripping off” done by the Daily Mail Online: Yes, most outlets regularly aggregate other publications’ work in the quest for readership and material, and yes, papers throughout…
15 million die-hard RSS aficionados
Martin Belam: And despite the die-hard afficianados, RSS is no longer a key content distribution channel. Of course, with some amusement, I read this in my RSS reader of choice. He’s right in that RSS never became a mainstream…
Amped about ampp3d and rigorous innovation
When I first heard about Trinity Mirror’s Us vs th3m, I rolled my eyes. Did the UK really need another Buzzfeed clone? Were our publishers incapable of innovating rather than jumping on yet another bandwagon? It took a talk…
Belam's Twitter ghost exposes misogyny
Martin Belam pretended to be a ghost on twitter – and discovered the misogyny lurking in our political debate: Then I announced that the next guest was going to be Emmeline Pankhurst, the first time it had featured a woman. Within…