Morning Conference emails
Morning Conference: blogrolls, audience engagement and the discovery problem
Why Substack and Medium are looking back on 2001's tech to solve the biggest challenge in media
substack
Posts about the newsletter platform that’s slowly pivoting towards a member-publishing aggregator.
Morning Conference emails
Morning Conference: what the Unsplash sale and the Substack investment mean for you
Some swift analysis on the two big publishing deals of yesterday.
Morning Conference emails
Morning Conference: asking the right questions
How to ask better questions as a journalist, some changes to Substack — and the changes Twitter needs to make.
substack
Why Substack's evolution is beginning to worry me
Is the newsletter platform a boon for independent journalism — or the beginnings of another attention gatekeeper that we'll all regret supporting?
evergreen content
Essential evergreen content, the Substack revenue question and the future of student media: this week’s key links
A digital basic people still struggle with, some thoughts on the newsletter opportunity — and an influencer's façade crumbles…
substack
Matt Yglesias leaves Vox for Substack: is he doing a Newton or a Sullivan?
Another writer mired in controversy leaves a Vox Media publication to start his own newsletter. What’s happening here?
online harassment
Better tools for better online communities
Five quick links about online abuse of local journalists, Facebook’s attempt to cleanse its groups, and some community-centric publishing tools.
newsletters
Casey Newton's shift to Substack shows how newsletters are changing
On the day he breaks another major Facebook story, Verge tech editor Casey Newton jumps ship for the Substack way
substack
Cancel Culture afterlife: Glinner and Substack
Where do you go, if you've been banned from Twitter? Off to the newsletter platform, to start building an audience - and a revenue stream - there.
twitch
The next wave of indie media, the Twitch ban hammer and Google's wallet
Twitch and Reddit ban things, Google might start paying for things, and podcasts still have indie cred. What a way to start the week.