Harry Slater

Beyond Reach | Harry Slater | Substack What's working (and what's not) in journalism, audience dev, product, and membership. Sent weekly. Click to read Beyond Reach, by Harry Slater, a Substack publication.

There's more to journalism than page views but sometimes it doesn't feel that way.

So I've re-launched Beyond Reach, a weekly round-up of stories and ideas about what’s working (and what’s not) in journalism, with a focus on audience development, product, and membership. beyondreach.substack.com

Digital and UX Designer (mid-weight) - Dazed Media This role is ideal for a digital designer who enjoys working across both editorial and commercial projects, values data-driven decision-making, and has a keen eye for innovative, user-first design.

🚀 I'm looking for a Digital and UX Designer to join Dazed Media's development team in London and be part of creating innovative, user-first designs across our digital platforms. careers.dazedmedia.com/jobs/5748341...

The Newspaper Flourishing Without a Paywall How the Guardian US is using Trump to get readers to cough up a donation.

The Guardian US expects to hit $44m in reader donations in US/Canada this year, up 33% YoY, per New York Magazine. Editor Betsy Reed said: “The world is incredibly interested in the shitshow here. God, it’s like they’re rubbernecking at a car crash.”

Truth Social is where the man who thinks he runs the country announces his latest move. X is where the man who actually runs the country gets his ideas for the president's next move. Threads is where people proudly resist both of them by patronizing a different billionaire who agrees with whatever the president says. Bluesky is where people are absolutely furious with the president's latest move and know exactly who to blame: the headline writers at the New York Times. Facebook is where people think the president's latest move was opening a casino for dolphins in Gaza with Jesus and they love it.

who's on what platform, 2025 edition

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For the past few months, we've been building The Dazed Archive – a custom AI-powered search engine that lets you explore three decades of fashion, photography, music and culture journalism with ease www.dazeddigital.com/dazedarchive

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Self-styled ‘Tariff Man’ shocks Wall Street with tariffs The end to self-delusion?

Self-styled ‘Tariff Man’ shocks Wall Street with tariffs

https://www.ft.com/content/ae3c89a8-bf12-4df9-9464-07186e662957

Beyond parody.

I feel like at some point the media needs to stop covering these announcements without actually using them. Can it actually do these things? has anyone seen them do it? How many times did it take to get it right?

Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.

New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

A battered TikTok enters an age of chaos as a ban awaits The video app that once styled itself a joyful politics-free zone is now bracing for a nationwide ban and pinning its hopes on President-elect Donald Trump.

From my story today: A company protected from bipartisan law due to a president’s self-interest would be “political capitalism, not all that different from Asian or Middle Eastern dictatorships. You want to do business, you cut in members of the royal family" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The Great Creator Reset The TikTok ban isn't just a platform reconfiguration, it will reshape the political leaning of the creator economy and permanently alter whose voices get heard online.

The TikTok ban isn't just a platform reconfiguration, it will reshape the political leaning of the creator economy and permanently alter whose voices get heard online. Please read my story
www.usermag.co/p/the-great-...

open! network!

users don't have to rebuild their following all over again each time they switch to a different app, so platforms can't lock them in

developers can bootstrap new social apps off an existing social graph of 27M+ people

win-win 🤝

The internet is now five websites owned by three people and all of them are awful

Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.

New: Days after Meta had to kill its AI-generated profiles due to backlash, some Instagram users are now being shown AI-generated images of themselves that are being automatically created by Instagram and put in their feeds

www.404media.co/instagram-be...

Meta’s fact-checking changes are just what Trump’s FCC head asked for Nice liability shield you’ve got there.

Only in Trump’s America does Zuckerberg utterly cave to the demands of an unelected wannabe government censor and call it protecting free expression www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...

screencap of an incredibly obvious usps parcel phishing scam

an actually useful feature for Apple Intelligence would be to identify these incredibly obvious scams from the half-dozen obvious tells it's a scam and then alert the user in the summary "hey this is a scam" so obviously it doesn't do that

The BBC needs to have a debate about whether Musk's outbursts should keep leading the news.

This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them.

Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda

Bethnal Green Weightlifting Club faces axe after almost 100 years Members at the east London community gym are petitioning the council to retract an eviction notice.

Tower Hamlets council want to shut down a 100-year-old weightlifting club but don’t seem to be able to explain exactly why. www.bbc.com/news/article... #london

Trump's transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous. Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data.

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

NEW: Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Can billionaire media moguls be trusted in Trump’s America? | Emily Bell The new gatekeepers use ‘trust’ to discredit the press and talk about removing bias with AI - distracting us from their own shift to the right

"[…] the unintelligent use of AI in newsrooms, which is becoming widespread – namely that we are in danger of 'producing more and understanding less'."

Not just newsrooms imo. This applies to anyone or any org using AI to create or alter content of any type. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PinkNews bosses accused of sexual misconduct Ex-staff members say they saw one of the couple who runs the site kissing and touching a drunk colleague.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As someone who has also had a spinal fusion operation (mine was cervical) and years of horrific pain, I think the x-ray photo on his profile is far more important in understanding the shooter's motivations for attacking a health insurance CEO than any retweeting activity or Goodreads reviews.

In that article, I wrote about my best friend who died of cystic fibrosis when I—and she—was 25. In an article I wrote for VICE, I explained that I blame America’s health insurance system for her death. She lived the vast majority of her life before Obamacare existed and was at times dropped from insurance in between jobs for her preexisting condition. She regularly had to skip medicine or treatments she needed to live because she could not afford them or because her insurance would not cover them or because she did not have insurance. Getting those medicines was like the world’s most time consuming and frustrating monthly puzzle. I remember for a while she was getting medication from an online pharmacy that had games and surveys you could play to get small discounts on prescriptions. She did those games every month to save a few dollars not because she wanted to save a few dollars but because she had to do them to literally afford her medicine. She looked into getting medication that was cheaper in Canada but could not navigate the system. She died 11 years ago. Millions of people died under a similar health insurance regime before her and millions of people have died under the same system after her. Her death fucked up my world and I have never been the same.

Here @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes his friend was filling out surveys/games to get few dollars off essential medication. People are outpouring their "horrendous, inhumane, heartbreaking experiences with a profit-driven, private American healthcare system" www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

Gregg Wallace's ghostwriter says MasterChef host sexually harassed her The MasterChef host has denied any sexual misconduct with Shannon Kyle, who worked on his 2012 memoir.

Exclusive: Gregg Wallace’s ghostwriter Shannon Kyle tells me the TV presenter ‘sexually harassed’ her

Full interview #Newsnight 1030pm
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why Everyone Is Drinking Guinness Guinness, the beer of Irish pubs and Irish men, has endeared itself to chug-happy Americans eager to “split the ‘G.’”

The New York Times has discovered Guinness www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/d...