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Why news analysis podcasts may be a tonic for news avoidance

Laura Fisher

4 Nov 2026

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News podcasts generally do what they say on the tin: report events as they happen, with little analysis, because the headlineshave only just come in. Think daily briefings such as NPR’s Up First or News Now : short, tightly scripted, objective, and fast-paced, built to answer who, what, when and w...

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What happens to entertainment in a gamified US economy?

Hanna Kahlert

15 Apr 2025

Cultural trends US News

Key takeaways from this blog: President Trump'sproposed tariffshave shaken the stock market, with trust in the US economy weakening Unpredictable policies, including the US TikTok ban, are making conditions difficult for businesses that operate across multiple countries With this uncertainty in the ...

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Ban or no ban, what comes next for TikTok creators?

Hanna Kahlert

22 Jan 2025

Marketing Strategy YouTube TikTok

The TikTok ban saga continues. The official date of the ban saw the app go dark in the US and Canada, replaced by a notice that the law had come into effect. However, only a few hours later, the app came back online, with a new notice that thanks to the Trump administration’s willingness to work o...

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Meta pushes for “free speech” as TikTok falls short: a dramatic cultural shift for social

Hanna Kahlert

15 Jan 2025

Business Strategy Facebook TikTok

The news cycle leaves no room to draw breath as strategic pivots and Supreme Court hearings come thick and fast. Changes are afoot – and they paint a very different picture of the digital landscape of the future.

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The BlueSky migration: How cultural shifts can disrupt even the most established social media platforms

Hanna Kahlert

19 Nov 2024

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Twitter clones have proliferated since Elon Musk first bought and renamed the platform to X in 2022. Despite a lot of buzz around platforms like Mastodon and BlueSky, none have seemed to capture a significant audience, with X’s weekly active usage remaining consistent.

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Podcasts are creating a new era of news

Annie Langston

28 Jul 2022

Podcasts News listeners

Podcasts are becoming a brand extension for every level of public figure, even those who have been shut out or disgraced elsewhere. After being fired from their network positions for allegedly violating journalistic ethics, two former news anchors — Chris Cuomo and Keith Olbermann — are each sta...

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Social media has become the default news platform for digital natives (for better and / or worse)

Hanna Kahlert

2 Mar 2022

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The tragic turn of events last week in Ukraine have shaken Europe and the world. People are frightened, politicians are tense, markets are volatile , and no one knows what will come next. However, as news has emerged of the situation, an interesting phenomenon has become clear: while robust reportin...

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ABC’s local news commitment adds to the building momentum of news streaming

Tim Mulligan

1 Feb 2022

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ABC, a US broadcast subsidiary of Disney, is launching new live local news streaming channels from its existing broadcast station in a number of major local markets within the US. The new channels range from ABC7 New York to ABC7 Los Angeles and will feature local news, as well as exclusive local AB...

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The sensationalisation of news comes head-to-head with Euro 2020

Hanna Kahlert

17 Jun 2021

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Less than a week in, and the coverage of Euro 2020 is off to a problematic start. Any big sports event taking place after a year of pandemic-induced lockdowns was bound to have its hitches. Yet few could have predicted the live coverage of an on-field cardiac arrest of a 29-year-old player.

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The video streaming shift from sports to news

Tim Mulligan

5 Nov 2020

News Video Streaming

Yesterday the Sinclair Broadcast Group reported its Q3 2020 results . A 37% increase in consolidated revenues was undone by a $4.2 billion impairment on the local sports segment due to the COVID-19 disruption wrought on its regional sports network.

Zombies and vaporwave: Consumer vibes in 2020

Hanna Kahlert

12 Sep 2020

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News has become culturally vital in 2020. In a year of global health, social and economic disruption, it now possesses a relevant edge to compete vigorously for consumer attention in a saturated content marketplace.

How technology is radically reshaping politics

Mark Mulligan

6 Sep 2019

Media News politics

As I write this, the UK is in the midst of a potential constitutional crisis following the UK government’s proposed changes to political norms in order to push through Brexit. In some ways this is what you get when a country only has a part-written constitution and never quite got round to phasing...

Here’s why Apple just killed off iTunes

Mark Mulligan

4 Jun 2019

iTunes News Music

Apple has announced that it is closing iTunes and replacing it with three new apps: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV Apps (via Forbes ).While this doesn’t (yet) mean the end of the iTunes Store, it is a major development for Apple.

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The medium is the message

Georgia Meyer

20 Aug 2018

Brand safety Democracy Facebook

When Jonah Peretti, the founder and CEO of Buzzfeed, made the now famous statement that, “Content is King but distribution is the Queen, and she wears the trousers” back in 2015, he perhaps did not realise quite how instructive that observation would come to be for the media landscape.

Facebook — The video news hegemon?

Tim Mulligan

11 Jun 2018

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Last Wednesday Facebook officially announcedthat it was partnering with a number of well-known news publishers to provide original news programmes that will feature on Watch, Facebook’s video service which is currently only available in the US.

News is the marketing plug in streaming video’s offering gap

Tim Mulligan

4 Jun 2018

BuzzFeed News Facebook Watch Media

Last week it was revealed that BuzzFeed News plans to launch a new video interview showto be streamed on Facebook Watch (according to The Information ). The weekly show will feature 20-minute episodes with news-making personalities from the worlds of politics and celebrity.

WikiTribune Is a Start, But It Misses The Core Issue On Fake News

Zach Fuller

27 Apr 2017

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Having created Wikipedia, one of the most widely read sites in the history of the World Wide Web, Jimmy Wales is aware of the complexities and pitfalls when it comes to managing the authenticity of information.

Quick Take: Why Twitter Is Moving Into The Increasingly Congested VR Space

Zach Fuller

29 Jun 2016

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Twitter have hired former Apple designer Alessandro Sabatelli to oversee the company’s Virtual and Augmented Reality teams, a position Sabatelli claims is to ‘empower us all in the spatial computing revolution’.

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