Merry Christmas Day everyone! Eating, drinking, beaching, dog walking and kite surfing for us 🎅
Grainy as anything... but just a wee Barn Owl on the B370 outside Dunbar on drive home tonight. @birdinglothian.bsky.social
Not bad, Canary Wharf, not bad. (About 5mins before a very brief snow dusting)
Dog related reminder of why living next to a beach is generally a good thing
Grey Partridges intent on making me late for my first meeting this morning... and also demonstrating why they are an endangered species in the UK these days!
Thanks @bronmaher.bsky.social for a well articulated piece on a complex set of Google platforms. Still think key Q is why does all the great local news content commercial publishers create not get visibility in Discover?
Couldn't agree more. Very very open to interpretation by Google on their own terms
Nic Newman is stepping down as lead author of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report, which he launched in 2012, after the next edition. The role is now being advertised: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...
A Reach journalist targeted by online abuse has shared her story as part of new campaign by South Yorkshire Police. Reach Online Safety editor Rebecca Whittington explains why online abuse now huge issue for women journalists pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...
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Next year’s edition will be the last one led by Nic Newman, who launched the report in 2012. Here’s what the role requires and how to apply.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
Reach online safety editor applauds police campaign against online abuse of women journalists and others.
Google‘s smartphone-based content recommendation feed, Google Discover, has become the single largest traffic referral source for Reach plc, its audience transformation director has said.
The platform tends not to pick up hard news, preferring "soft lens" content
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/re...
pressgazette.co.uk
Google Discover has become the largest traffic referral source for publishing giant Reach plc, its audience transformation director says.
Genuinely quite baffled at how many SEOs are celebrating Google redefining its spam policies and immediately handing out penalties, even to sites that don't actually break these reinterpreted policies.
Are we really okay with Google using the "I'll know it when I see it" approach to tackling spam?
