
The Sun
Spinning the digital news cycle
The Sun's starting to gate its content, and local news is putting up a paywall. No, this isn't a post from 2014 β this is happening now.
The Sun
The Sun's starting to gate its content, and local news is putting up a paywall. No, this isn't a post from 2014 β this is happening now.
Meta
And this might matter to local journalism. Plus: has The Telegraph found a buyer? And the mysteries of algospeak.
Local News
Mill Media's latest site eschews Substack for Ghost. That's great: the web/newsletter/subscriptions space needs competition, and a choice of platforms for publishers.
audience engagement
Plus a proposal to relaunch a local newspaper as a newsletter-first operation. And some sad, sad, oh so sad, news about Infowars.
newsletter
Has the loosened moderation under Elon Musk lead to the thuggery on the UK's streets over the weekend? Plus a glimpse at the possible future of search.
TikTok
The regulators get itchy about China and AI, and a useful SEO tool gets its last update before AI changes everything β forever! (Maybe.)
SEO
Why bad SEO advice is costing publishers dearly in the Helpful Content age, and why consolidating local newspapers is a recipe for further decline.
newsletters
Local newsletters for local people, as The League of Gentlemen never said. Plus, AMP is dead, and Threads is rapidly developingβ¦
Journalism
Plus why we end up with zombie websites, YET MORE Twitter chaos, and the cancelling of Dilbert
Question and feedback from readers on newsletters, AI, local journalism and TikTok.
local journalism
Another week, another economic crisis. But in other news, local politicians are getting more overtly disdainful of journalists, and big news sites are taking a serious SEO hit. Let's dive inβ¦
news:rewired
The contrast between the coverage of war in Syrai and Ukraine is shocking and stark, argues the news:rewired keynoter. Here's how we can do better.