newsletters
Lessons from award-winning newsletters
What are the secrets of a good newsletter? What should you measure - and how much should you listen to your audience? Here’s some answers from the very best newsletter publishers.
newsletters
Commercial lessons from the Black Ballad founder’s newsletter
How a weekly newsletter has become central to both the community building and monetisation of a ground-breaking website for black women.
newsletters
Lessons from Newsletter-First Publications
What can publishers learn about newsletter strategy from independent businesses that grew newsletter first? Notes from a panel discussion.
substack
Substack really has a Nazi problem now
In the couple of months since an Atlantic piece suggested Substack has a Nazi problem, the normally PR-savvy newsletter company has dropped the ball repeatedly. And both publishers and subscribers are quitting.
newsletters
The meta-newsletter newsletter
Newsletters are over, apparently. But we know better than that, don't we?
newsletters
Saving local news, one newsletter at a time
Local newsletters for local people, as The League of Gentlemen never said. Plus, AMP is dead, and Threads is rapidly developing…
substack
Why I don't read the Press Gazette newsletter now
The problem with playing the platform game, even if it's a newsletter platform. And another reason to mistrust AI…
X (Twitter)
Cuttings #6: Blogging Elephants and Banned Influencers
Plus what could be Elon's strategy for X, and a useful newsletter tool…
analytics
Apple hits email analytics again in iOS17
Apple's stripping another analytics tool from our toolbox with new privacy features in iOS17
newsletters
When hosted newsletter platforms go bad
A bad product update can seriously ruin a newsletter writer’s day.
Publishing
This is how the future media ecosystem will look
The death of Buzzfeed News and the bankrupty of Vice make it clear how the new media ecosystem is developing: it's surprisingly… nautical?
Social Media
Some notes on Substack Notes
Who is the new Substack feature serving? Plus the final nail in the coffin of the keyword from Google.