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When digital goes shopping for print Members Public

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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Publishing

The Week in Tweets Members Public

A landmark week in a number of ways, caught in a handful of Tweets…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
X (Twitter)

The alternative podcast realities of politics magazines Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
podcasting

Social & Digital lunchbreak: trouble not the Twitter elite Members Public

Twitter births a new elite, thanks to the sterling work of the trolls and harassers. Another other dispatches from the social/digital intersection.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
X (Twitter)

The Spectator is harnessing digital to get record print sales Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
publishing strategy

The falls of the houses of Phillips and Hari Members Public

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/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Johann Hari

How Guido Fawkes Felled Damian McBride Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Spend with The Spectator Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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