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Newsletters go back at least as far as the Middle Ages, but these days, with full-time jobs at stable media companies evaporating—between the 2008 recession and 2019, newsroom employment dropped by 23 percent—Substack offers an appealing alternative.

cjr.org • The Substackerati

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Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain

The first time the word “podcast” appeared in print (alongside “podcasting”) was on Oct 14 2004 in The Los Angeles Times, and taken up by The New York Times, on Oct 28 2004.

James Cridland • The history of the word 'Podcast'

One such curator is Derrick Gee, a former online radio d.j. who lives in Australia. I first encountered Gee on TikTok and was pulled in by his architect-ish look: thin wireframe glasses and stylishly baggy, often monochrome outfits. He records videos of himself talking into a microphone in a low, soothing voice, breaking down trends in contemporary... See more

Kyle Chayka • The New Generation of Online Culture Curators | The New Yorker

In the sixteenth century this yearning for swift and reliable information also led to the establishment of the first private news offices, dealing in confidential news on a subscription basis. These news agencies, with their commercially distributed manuscript news-sheets, are by far the least known of the communication media of the period. But the

Andrew Pettegree • The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself

I think it’s disingenuous to follow formal tradition at the expense of regular usage in a book that’s entirely about regular usage, so I’ve made the stylistic decision to write social, internet acronyms in all-lowercase, while often keeping technical acronyms in uppercase, because people on the internet primarily reserve LOL and OMG for when they’r

Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

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Helene Wecker • The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel (P.S.)

Jesse Read

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Walk’s two staffers were moved to work on YouTube monetization. Later, looking back, Walk would call this decision “YouTube’s original sin.”