Publishing
When digital goes shopping for print
Tortoise wants The Observer. Unherd has got The Spectator, and installed a new editor. The relationship between tradition print-era brands and digital startups has suddenly reversed.
X (Twitter)
The Week in Tweets
A landmark week in a number of ways, caught in a handful of Tweets…
podcasting
The alternative podcast realities of politics magazines
Podcasts have become central to many publishers’ strategies — with sometimes bizarre results.
X (Twitter)
Social & Digital lunchbreak: trouble not the Twitter elite
Twitter births a new elite, thanks to the sterling work of the trolls and harassers. Another other dispatches from the social/digital intersection.
publishing strategy
The Spectator is harnessing digital to get record print sales
This is rather spectacular: Spectator subscriptions are at an all-time high, but not only that — print subscriptions are, too. Here’s how editor Fraser Nelson expains it [https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/02/the-spectators-print-sales-hit-a-190-year-high-thanks-to-digital/] : > Digital is behind the renaissance of print. The website brings millions of people to
Johann Hari
The falls of the houses of Phillips and Hari
I suspect many of us labouring in the less glamorous trenches of journalism will be feeling a little schadenfreude at the moment. First came the sudden departure of Melanie Phillips [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Phillips] from The Spectator, as explained by Prof Greenslade [http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Blogging
How Guido Fawkes Felled Damian McBride
Worth a read: [Guido Fawkes: His Role in Damian McBride’s Downfall](http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3540431/a-bloggers-notebook.thtml) The whole McBride saga has been a fascinating study of the dance between bloggers, mainstream media and the centralising urge of government. I really must blog more about
the spectator
Spend with The Spectator
The Spectator, that crusty old beast of political magazines, is getting a make-over. And there’s one very interesting change: D’Ancona reshuffles Spectator team: Van der Post will edit of a new section titled You Earned It, which will chronicle and celebrate the fashions, trends and luxuries of modern