Newsletters are climbing up the hype curve, just as podcasts did a couple of years ago. Making the most of them requires exploring different formats. Some publishers have started that process.

Why today's newsletter actually take a lot from blogging and why The Economist is on Instagram: answered.

The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please?

Yes, there are problems with how journalists behave on social media. But the solutions are unlikely to be straightforward.

From the challenges of being a journalist on social media, to the shifting face of podcasts, there's plenty to be thinking about today.

2020's edition of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report is dominated, as you would expect, with the changes wrought by the pandemic. But there's an underlying trends that's worth focusing on.

Three helpful links (and a memorialisation of a failure) to help you find positivity in dark days…

The Covid-19 lockdown is changing journalism. Here's a few signposts on that road.

Five reads on subscriptions and membership models, to give you some hope about the future of journalism.

Moving on from just reporting the problems, exposing new times for engaging with readers and more, in this selection of fine, artisanal links.

Another round-up of interesting reading about journalism and audience engagement

New research from the Reuters Institute suggests that publishers are waking up to the opportunity for greater audience engagement through podcasting - but are they taking the right approach?

By deeply researching the audience engagement of three news outlets under sustained assault by hostile organisations, Dr Julie Posetti and team have come up with some vital work

The Guardian launches a member-only app, people are discovering funnels a decade late, and HuffPo is on the auction block.

Newsletters are an intensely personal medium. Here’s how to do them right - and use them to make an impact.

Google is making the first big change to "nofollow" in a decade and a half. Here's what you should know.

Big news from Google: it's tweaked its algorithms to prioritise original reporting - and to display it for longer.

There's an assumption that just training people to be critical of media will help deal with misinformation. That's wrong.

The Correspondent has revealed a little bit about how it's going to be run — and where its money is going.

The annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report was published today — and a panel discussed the implications for journalism of its key findings. Here's my notes.