This time next week, Women’s Euro 2025 will be underway, with the second day of matches taking place. (The second day is far more enticing than the first, featuring as it does Belgium vs Italy and Spain vs Portugal.) The tournament is another significant juncture for women’s football in the media. Since that historic moment […]
Women’s Euro 2025 Can Help Decline in Broadcast Viewers Read More »
I’ve now been back in London for a few days and am starting to take in a little of what took place when I was in Israel (and Jordan and Turkey…). Aside from helping to process it all personally, I hope writing about it more provides some insight into what is really going on, or
Leaving The Story in Israel Behind Read More »
I’m definitely not a foreign correspondent. That has become clear to me this week. As I mentioned in Friday’s Special Addition, I was in Tel Aviv to cover Pride. You can work out the rest. I appeared on Monocle Radio from my hotel room on… I’m no longer sure what day… and that is how
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Welcome to a special edition of The Addition from Tel Aviv, Israel. As you might imagine, I had an… eventful… night last night. I came to Israel to report on Tel Aviv Pride – one of the biggest in the world, now cancelled. After attending a media reception, I headed back to my hotel and
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The New European, an outlet that was meant to exist for a month in the run up to the 2016 Brexit referendum and has lasted ever since, is having a rebrand. Editor Matt Kelly announced today that the magazine is now going to be called The New World. There are a couple of bits in Kelly’s
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The Washington Post is reportedly exploring partnerships with other newspapers, Substack writers, and even non-professional writers (gasp!). This is part of attempts to expand the opinion section, according to Benjamin Mullin at The New York Times. At the heart of this story is, of course, AI, which the paper will use to support writers, presumably,
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Sequoia Capital has invested $100 million in Mubi, as good a demonstration as any of how technology has collided with media and culture.
Sequoia Capital Mubi Investment Underlines Blurring of Tech and Media Read More »
In a recent edition of the Semafor Media newsletter, Max Tani touched on the issue of gatekeeping a couple of times. “The debate about whether the legacy news media — to the degree it still keeps the gate at all — failed to adequately cover President Joe Biden’s decline is also at the heart of
Gatekeeping is Out. Curation is (Still) in. Read More »
