Harry Slater
@harry-slater.com
Digital Director @ Dazed Media. Ex-Guardian and HuffPost.
👉🏻 What's working (and what's not) in journalism, audience dev, product, and membership. Sent weekly. beyondreach.substack.com
👉🏻 What's working (and what's not) in journalism, audience dev, product, and membership. Sent weekly. beyondreach.substack.com
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Harry Slater
@harry-slater.com
· Sep 9
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.
beyondreach.substack.com
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
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
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
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
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.
beyondreach.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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
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
🚀 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...
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.
careers.dazedmedia.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🚀 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...
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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.”
The Newspaper Flourishing Without a Paywall
How the Guardian US is using Trump to get readers to cough up a donation.
nymag.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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.”
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who's on what platform, 2025 edition
March 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
who's on what platform, 2025 edition
🚀 The Dazed Archive is here!
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
#AI #Journalism
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
#AI #Journalism
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Discover Dazed cover stars, interviews and stories from three decades of Dazed magazine in our AI-powered archive.
www.dazeddigital.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🚀 The Dazed Archive is here!
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
#AI #Journalism
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
#AI #Journalism
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Self-styled ‘Tariff Man’ shocks Wall Street with tariffs
https://www.ft.com/content/ae3c89a8-bf12-4df9-9464-07186e662957
https://www.ft.com/content/ae3c89a8-bf12-4df9-9464-07186e662957
Self-styled ‘Tariff Man’ shocks Wall Street with tariffs
The end to self-delusion?
www.ft.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Self-styled ‘Tariff Man’ shocks Wall Street with tariffs
https://www.ft.com/content/ae3c89a8-bf12-4df9-9464-07186e662957
https://www.ft.com/content/ae3c89a8-bf12-4df9-9464-07186e662957
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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?
OpenAI just unveiled Operator, its AI agent that's designed to automate tasks like planning vacations, making restaurant reservations & ordering groceries, directly competing with an earlier release from rival Anthropic. Currently debuting in research preview mode.
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/o...
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/o...
OpenAI introduces Operator to automate tasks like vacation planning, restaurant reservations
OpenAI on Thursday unveiled Operator, which it calls "an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you."
www.cnbc.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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?
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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-...
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.
www.404media.co
January 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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-...
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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...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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...
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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-...
www.usermag.co/p/the-great-...
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.
www.usermag.co
January 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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-...
www.usermag.co/p/the-great-...
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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 🤝
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 🤝
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that…
tcrn.ch
January 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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 🤝
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 🤝
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The internet is now five websites owned by three people and all of them are awful
January 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The internet is now five websites owned by three people and all of them are awful
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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...
www.404media.co/instagram-be...
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.
www.404media.co
January 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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...
www.404media.co/instagram-be...
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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...
Meta’s fact-checking changes are just what Trump’s FCC head asked for
Nice liability shield you’ve got there.
www.theverge.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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...
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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
January 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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
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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
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
January 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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
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
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
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.
www.bbc.com
December 22, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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
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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...
Trump's transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous.
Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data.
www.politico.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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...
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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...
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...
December 12, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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...
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...
"[…] 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...
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...
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
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:07 PM
"[…] 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...
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...
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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.
the person of interest in the shooting of the United CEO has been ID’d as Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League grad and fan of Breloom, the mushroom Pokémon.
December 9, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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.