JD Shadel's weekly lifestyle newsletter mixes personal essays, retro internet nostalgia and long-form media-industry analysis, with a working-class, candid point of view. Readers get reported pieces on the state of journalism and offbeat cultural commentary written in a playful voice.
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A media industry newsletter covering how publishers and creators produce, distribute and monetize digital content. It combines interviews with media executives and creators, quick-hit link commentary, and analysis of platform shifts like AI search and Substack.
Format Forward covers unscripted TV format development, from market data and MIPCOM analysis to weekly lists of confirmed format commissions. It also offers practical guidance for pitching formats to commissioners, written by a former BBC head of light entertainment and international formats.
Personal essays on how films and culture cross borders, drawing on the author's background in international trade negotiation. It examines film markets, festival circuits and the distribution gap that keeps award-winning African and Caribbean films from audiences.
A long-running personal newsletter by a veteran digital news editor, mixing media-industry history, commentary on the local news crisis, and formal reasoning about the value of local journalism. Readers get experienced insider perspective on how newsrooms and local information economics work.
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