Threads
How Threads got tangled
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?
The Economist
News and opinion about The Economist, the magazine for people with — and making — money
news:rewired
The future of newsletters
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
Newsletters: Rise of the Blogletter
Why today's newsletter actually take a lot from blogging and why The Economist is on Instagram: answered.
hacks/hackers
Hacks/Hackers London: AI, Fact-checking, a faster Economist — and better careers for women
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
Cannabis, social video and The Economist
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 The Economist plays the platform game
How do you recruit new subscribers - especially young ones? For The Economist, social platforms are a big part of the equation…
cartooning
The Economist on the economics of 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
Finding The Economist's social media voice
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 passes FT & Economist in unique visitors
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
The Economist Starts 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