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Charlotte Henry

Charlotte Henry is a journalist and broadcaster who creates and runs The Addition newsletter and podcast; an award-winning publication looking at the crossover between media and technology.

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Fallout Has Been Well Received, But It's Time For More Original Originals

For this month's "Lessons from the creator economy" column for Media Voices I interviewed Sophia Smith Galer. It was a fascinating conversation with a very modern media operator. Read it here. "Fallout" is looking like a hit for Prime Video [Image via Amazon Prime Video] Although there are undoubtedly issues as studios have tightened their belts, streaming has also provided film and TV creators with greater opportunities to get their work out there. Yet all too often we are seeing...

about 2 hours ago • 2 min read

Britain is heading towards local elections in May and then a General Election, now expected around October/November. The rules around broadcasting during the so-called "regulated period" in the run-up to polling day are very strict. This is likely to please one of the country's political parties, which is having something of a dispute with one channel about their output. More on that to come... Keeley Hawes, Gillian Anderson, Billie Piper in "Scoop" Despite having to cover the lives of other...

4 days ago • 2 min read

Welcome to The Addition's paid newsletter. Thank you for supporting my work. There is a lot going on in media land... Camilla Tominey and Kamal Ahmed are presenting a new daily podcast for The Telegraph Most media outlets, certainly the major ones, have to be lost of things to lost of different people. Newspapers need to provide videos, games and… podcasts. Daily news podcasts have become particularly popular. The New York Times and The Times newspapers are among those that offer such a...

7 days ago • 3 min read

"Scoops", the Netflix movie that tells the story of Prince Andrew's disastrous "Newsnight" interview, is out today. I reviewed the book it is based on, authored by producer Sam McAlister (played by Billie Piper in the film). I'm looking forward to settling down with the movie. This week, John Stewart hosted Lina Khan, chair of the FTC on “The Daily Show”. During a somewhat sycophantic interview, the host explained how Apple vetoed the same conversation when he was making a show for Apple TV+....

11 days ago • 1 min read
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Some links may help generate a commission that supports The Addition The clips of a bridge in Baltimore collapsing after being hit by a cargo ship might look like an AI-generated nightmare, but they are, unfortunately, very much real. And we can be sure of that. For now. The development of AI tools will surely alter how we perceive both fictional and news content. Things have gathered pace even in the few weeks since I last wrote about Sora, the text-to-video tool from OpenAI. Yesterday, the...

21 days ago • 1 min read

The panel to analyse the future funding model of the BBC has been announced. There are some notable names on there, including former leaders at ITV and Channel 5, as well as prime minister Rishi Sunak’s former director of communications Amber de Botton. There’s no doubting the expertise on the panel, but I’m not entirely sure it could be described as “pro-BBC” either. The direction of travel seems clear. Indeed, the government’s stated aim is “to minimise increases to the cost of the TV...

25 days ago • 1 min read

There's no doubt that that Kate Middleton photo is a major comms strategy screw-up that has generated a lot of attention. (I wrote about it for CapX.) But has anyone noticed that Americans seem more excited by the whole saga than us Brits?! The next few months are going to be very interesting for "GB News". It seems happy to push the boundaries, but how far can that go, especially during an election campaign? The regulator Ofcom is now watching the upstart broadcaster, although I don't get...

28 days ago • 2 min read

Having a beer with another media hack this week, we both meekly confessed that we didn't quite understand what a 'publisher' at a media outlet does. It seems to be an all-encompassing senior title that is used differently at different publications. So... yeah... if anyone wants to help us out, do get in touch! The ongoing battle between Spotify and Apple got VERY ugly on Monday, as the EU sided with the Swedish streamer in a row that centres on the 30% cut the iPhone maker takes of payments...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read

For a while, it was tempting just to ignore GB News, the British right-wing TV channel. The production was bad, the audience was small. All-in-all, it wasn’t really making much of a difference to anything. Back when it launched in June 2021, there was the distinct possibility it would crash and burn very quickly. This sense was only exacerbated by Andrew Neil’s fast exit Almost three years on, the station has landed big-name presenters, often Conservative politicians, and kept a small but...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read

I’m excited to announce that I’m launching a newsletter masterclass. I’ve built mine up from nothing to being named ‘Best Solo Newsletter’ at the Publisher Newsletter Awards in just over a year and now I’d like to help others build their own. You can book either one hour-long call or buy a course of three calls. These are all 1-on-1, so we can really drill down into what you need. More information here. Some links below may help generate a commission that supports The Addition. For some time,...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read
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