Free Post hacks/hackers Hacks/Hackers London: AI, Fact-checking, a faster Economist — and better careers for women May's Hacks/Hackers brought us AMP-based web-design, Facebook fact-checking, AI email checks, and a new organisation to support women in their careers.
Free Post journalism 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.)
Free Post How The Economist plays the platform game How do you recruit new subscribers - especially young ones? For The Economist, social platforms are a big part of the equation…
Free Post cartooning 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.
Free Post social media strategy 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
Free Post digital strategy 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
Free Post blogging 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 on the tin The
