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Meta's Twitter clone is struggling with engagement bait and over-zealous moderation. Meanwhile, has The Economist figured out how to attract Gen Z without TikTok?
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Meta's Twitter clone is struggling with engagement bait and over-zealous moderation. Meanwhile, has The Economist figured out how to attract Gen Z without TikTok?
news:rewired
The newsletter boom of the last few years shows no sign of abating. What's next for this critical auidnce tool, asked a panel at news:rewired.
newsletters
Why today's newsletter actually take a lot from blogging and why The Economist is on Instagram: answered.
hacks/hackers
May's Hacks/Hackers brought us AMP-based web-design, Facebook fact-checking, AI email checks, and a new organisation to support women in their careers.
Journalism
Great to see social video techniques being used by more serious outlets to tell stories: (Full disclosure: the journalist who created this [https://twitter.com/eliserwjohnson1] is a former student.)
How do you recruit new subscribers - especially young ones? For The Economist, social platforms are a big part of the equation…
cartooning
The Economist have been posting some older, evergreen (or “stock” content, for regular readers…) on Medium. The piece on cartooning is particularly worth reading [https://medium.com/the-economist/how-the-internet-unleashed-a-burst-of-cartooning-creativity-45b9170e0c3b?curator=MediaREDEF#.51ep116a7] : > Cartoons go way back before newspapers. They have their origins in the caricatures and illustrations of early
social media strategy
Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor of the Economist [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/29/economist-zanny-minton-beddoes-digital] : > We have to be ourselves in social media. What does it mean to be the Economist on social media? I think a lot of what is characteristic of the Economist, its brevity and
digital strategy
Quartz continues to power ahead [http://fortune.com/2016/01/21/quartz-growth/] > In an internal memo that Fortune managed to get hold of, publisher Jay Lauf said the site’s traffic rose by 65% in December to almost 17 million unique visitors, more than The Economist or the Financial
Blogging
Via Fleet Sreet 2.0 [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/blog/2006/11/04/the-economist-blogs/] (which is a great name for an interesting blog), I note that The Economist [http://www.economist.com/index.html] has given us two blogs: * Free Exchange [http://www.economist.com/debate/freeexchange/] – an economics