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A collection of 7 posts
Cannabis, social video and The Economist
Great to see social video techniques being used by more serious outlets to tell stories: (Full disclosure: the journalist who created this is a former student.)…
How The Economist plays the platform game
Another set of liveblogged notes from Digital Media Europe 2017. Typos, inaccuracy and howling crimes against grammar and syntax probable. James Waddell, social media writer at The Economist. In print, The Economist skews older and male. Online is ¾ under 45,…
The Economist on the economics of cartooning
The Economist have been posting some older, evergreen (or “stock” content, for regular readers…) on Medium. The piece on cartooning is particularly worth reading: Cartoons go way back before newspapers. They have their origins in the caricatures and illustrations of…
Finding The Economist's social media voice
Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor of the Economist: We have to be ourselves in social media. What does it mean to be the Economist on social media? I think a lot of what is characteristic of the Economist, its brevity and…
Quartz passes FT & Economist in unique visitors
Quartz continues to power ahead In an internal memo that Fortune managed to get hold of, publisher Jay Lauf said the site’s traffic rose by 65% in December to almost 17 million unique visitors, more than The Economist or…
The Economist Starts Blogging
Via Fleet Sreet 2.0 (which is a great name for an interesting blog), I note that The Economist has given us two blogs: Free Exchange – an economics blog (no surprises there) Democracy in America – which does what it says…