Plus some explanation of why social platforms go bad, and how the FT’s Mastodon experiment died.

Question and feedback from readers on newsletters, AI, local journalism and TikTok.

It's time to stop clinging to the publishing wisdom of the past. And the decline in new podcasts is not the bad news it looks on the surface.

Podcasts have become central to many publishers’ strategies — with sometimes bizarre results.

Plus some jobs, a tip, and Lagerfeld’s iPods. Yes, really.

Why audio is critical to your audience engagement thinking, why hashtags are back on Facebook, and more to spark your imagination this week…

More useful reads to make your morning coffee feel really useful — as well as tasty.

In today's quick dose of lunchtime reading, there's major Google news, a publisher abandoning their office and more.

While Spotify's acqusition of The Ringer is good news for the journalists involved, it's part of a worrying trend in podcasting

A bumper load of interesting reading about engaged journalism and journalism development. Enjoy!

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?

The podcast industry in China is worth $7.3bn - and it's not from advertising.

Over a decade ago, The Guardian was a genuine innovator, launching a daily news podcast. It's revisiting that idea in 2018 - seemingly unaware that they've done it before.