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The Addition is an award-winning reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Image credit: Top_CNX / Shutterstock.com When TV and movie streaming first launched there seemed to be a new, albeit largely unspoken, contract between provider and consumer – pay a somewhat premium price and […]

Few people are in any doubt that 2024 is going to be another tumultuous year for the media industry – for good and bad. There is certainly going to be a lot to discuss on this show! To start the year, ‘The Addition Podcast’ looks ahead with Adweek’s Mark Stenberg, who shares his predictions for

Welcome to 2024! The Addition is back and I’m ready and raring to go – I have big plans for the next 12 months. Continuing building and giving readers more of what you want does though require more people to take out a paid subscription. Doing so gives you access to all the paid newsletters

Photo by Rodion Kutsaiev on Unsplash It is the Friday before Christmas and I wanted to say… thank you! Your taking the time to read the newsletter and listen to the podcast means a lot to me. I love running The Addition and I’m proud of where it’s got to in a relatively short period.

Merry Christmas! Things are winding down for the year, and I hope you’ve enjoyed what I’ve been doing at The Addition. I love having you as a listener! But keeping this up is hard work. The only real way this newsletter and podcast can continue in 2024 is if readers take out paid subscriptions. It

Merry Christmas! Things are winding down for the year, and I hope you’ve enjoyed what I’ve been doing at The Addition. I love having you as a listener! But keeping this up is hard work. The only real way this newsletter and podcast can continue in 2024 is if readers take out paid subscriptions. It

Merry Christmas! Things are winding down for the year and I hope you’ve enjoyed what I’ve been doing at The Addition. I love having you as a reader! But keeping this up is hard work. The only real way this newsletter can continue in 2024 is if readers take out paid subscriptions. It would mean

Photo by Shaun Jeffers / Shutterstock.com The money may not be, in relative terms, very much, certainly not to Prince Harry, but the awarding of £140,600 in damages to him today will cause waves in the media industry. A High Court judge today ruled that 15 of the 33 sample articles submitted by the Duke

The BBC is always under huge scrutiny. That will only increase over the next 12 months as it has to navigate coverage of both the UK and US elections. There are also issues surrounding local coverage and flagship shows like “Newsnight”, both of which are being reduced in various ways. Adam Sherwin, who reports on

The BBC is always under huge scrutiny. That will only increase over the next 12 months as it has to navigate coverage of both the UK and US elections. There are also issues surrounding local coverage and flagship shows like “Newsnight”, both of which are being reduced in various ways. Adam Sherwin, who reports on