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.
Bluesky Now Matters to the Media. So it Matters.
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Welcome to The Addition, where I cover the crossover between culture, media and sport. Last week, I reflected on the news that Gary Lineker is leaving Match of the Day at the end of the season and will leave the BBC after the 2026 World Cup. Many people noted, quite reasonably, that this means he can focus solely on his very successful Goalhanger Podcasts company. One somewhat overlooked element is that Lineker’s The Rest is Football show is going to be hosted by the BBC. It will be interesting to see how long that lasts, but it does not seem to be quite the parting of the ways that is being sold. (A big shout out to the kind subscriber who flagged this up after spotting the details buried at the bottom of a story from… BBC News.) Meanwhile, news of more redundancies at major UK publisher Reach is filtering through. Based on what one hack on one of the company’s national papers told me recently about the churn and targets staff there are subject to, some might be pleased to take any redundancy package they can get. Bluesky Beats its RivalsIn the last couple of weeks, and the last few days in particular, there has been a huge amount of buzz around Bluesky. The social media app looks reassuringly like Twitter in “the good old days”. It is the latest beneficiary of the anti-Elon Musk/Donald Trump backlash, with the number of users shooting up. A lot of the conversation around this development has been about how much “nicer” the platform is. Well, maybe, but that is not why it is relevant to the media. Bluesky is happy to promote links, and news in particular, unlike many of its rivals. Read the full article with a paid subscription.
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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.
Welcome to The Addition, where I cover the crossover between culture, media and sport. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the need for the WSL to get more competitive if it is going to maintain media interest. This weekend was very illustrative. The managers like to emphasise how difficult the league is. Tottenham's Robert Vilahamn called the WSL "crazy competitive" in a press conference on Friday. Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor has said similar. However, only Vilahamn's team ended up in a...
Welcome to The Addition, where I cover the crossover between culture, media and sport. What's this? A newsletter on a Thursday? Yes! I thought that you might appreciate your second dose of independent media reporting and analysis earlier in the week, so I'm now going to publish on a Thursday instead of a Friday. Not that long ago, I revealed the strain hacks at Reach are under as their bosses impose ever more demanding targets on them. It’s all in the name of traffic. Of course. Since then,...
Welcome to The Addition, where I cover the crossover between culture, media and sport. In the The Times, Martyn Ziegler reported that the rules that prevent football being shown live in the UK between 2:45pm and 5:15pm on a Saturday might finally dropped. Thanks goodness for that - it has been a bug bear of mine for a while. We're probably going to have to wait until 2028 to get there though. As Ziegler noted, the basis of the rules was to encourage people to both go to games and play the...