robinrendle.com
Newsletters; or, an enormous rant about writing on the web that doesn’t really go anywhere and that’s okay with me
~11 min read · 2021-01-04 · Robin Rendle ∙ January 2021 My friend Lucy once told me that she falls in love with the way that someone thinks…
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thehypothesis.substack.com
Here's why Substack's scam worked so well
8 min read · 2021-03-18 · They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative
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Stratechery
Sovereign Writers and Substack
~11 min read · 2021-03-22 · Substack is at the center of media controversy, most of which misses the point that sovereign writers — not Substack — are in control.
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Platformer
🚨 The mess at Medium
10 min read · 2021-03-25 · 14 current and former staffers on what went wrong
Reader View · Shared by 226, including Kevin Roose, Ernie Smith, rogerverhoeven, Brian Rinaldi, Casey Newton, Kara Swisher, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Katja Evertz, Nick Lüthi
click.revue.email
The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present » Nieman Journalism Lab
20+ min read · 2021-04-03
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Dirk von Gehlen
Mega-Trend Newsletter: Fünf Gründe warum der Hype berechtigt ist
4 min read · 2021-01-31 · Was ist der wichtigste publizistische Trend im Frühjahr 2021? Nein, ich spreche nicht von Clubhouse. Auch die wachsende Bedeutung von datenjournalistischen Formaten meine ich nicht. Ich spreche von…
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media-lab.de
2021 ist ein guter Zeitpunkt, ein Medienimperium zu gründen
1 min read · 2021-02-01 · In der Corona-Krise haben prominente Journalist:innen in den USA ihren Job gekündigt, um sich mit einem bezahlten Newsletter auf Substack selbstständig zu machen. Wie attraktiv sind die…
Reader View · Shared by 19, including Katja Evertz, Nick Lüthi, Klaus Eck, Andreas Spiegler
Axios
America rebalances its post-Trump news diet
1 min read · 2021-03-07 · Americans are learning to wean themselves off of news and especially politics.
Reader View · Shared by 67, including Katja Evertz, Catherine Rampell, Brian Stelter, Mark Little, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (is offline), Glenn Greenwald, Mathew Ingram
Poynter
Journalism is a public service. So why doesn’t it represent the public?
3 min read · 2021-03-05 · Journalism’s high barriers to entry drive out talent from marginalized groups at a time when the field can least afford it.
Reader View · Shared by 86, including Philanthropy News Digest, Mathew Ingram, Katja Evertz, Becca Aaronson, Nieman Reports, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (is offline)
Nieman Lab
Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2021
2020-12-22 · Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and digital media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. Here’s what they had to say.
Shared by 18, including Nieman Reports, RebelMouse, Joshua Benton, Katja Evertz, luis antónio santos, Vincenzo Tremonte
documentjournal.com
The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
~11 min read · 2021-01-17 · “To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”
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Stratechery
Clubhouse’s Inevitability
~15 min read · 2021-02-15 · Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.
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Vox
You’ve been invited to Clubhouse. Your privacy hasn’t.
5 min read · 2021-02-12 · Clubhouse has millions of users, millions of dollars, and very few privacy options.
Reader View · Shared by 132, including Thomas Power, Justin Jackson, Mathew Ingram, Taylor Lorenz, Katja Evertz, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Johannes Lenz, John Nosta, Luke Robert Mason, Madalyn Sklar Digital Marketing since 1996, Matt Navarra, Deepak Nahar, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA
WIRED
The Grim Consequences of a Misleading Study on Disinformation
3 min read · 2021-02-18 · An influential study relies too heavily on news media reporting—which has only recently acknowledged the social media manipulation problem at all.
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OneZero
Nextdoor Is Quietly Replacing the Small-Town Paper
20+ min read · 2021-01-27 · While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time
Reader View · Shared by 207, including Kelsey D. Atherton, Nick Lüthi, Mathew Ingram, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Carrie Brown, Brian Honigman, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (is offline), Katja Evertz, Taylor Lorenz, Esther Schindler, Nieman Reports, Mark Little
Axios
Newsletters are growing up and leaving the coop
2 min read · 2021-01-26 · Some authors are figuring out they need more than an internet connection and writing ideas.
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