Thesis: AI illustration is now baseline, human art and photography becomes value added. Human creativity becomes a signifier of a premium product.
Thoughts?
Some (slightly meandering) thoughts on The Observer’s cracking investigative piece into the truth behind The Salt Path story, and the audience and media reaction to it.
With bonus description of my media theorist’s hat.
Having a big life re-evaluation moment with my wife. My City lecturing and my family are the non-negotiable bits, as is my wife’s (new) job, but we’re putting everything else up in the air: where we live, the rest of my working life. How we spend our free time.
It’s frightening but exhilarating.
It’s difficult to articulate how angry this piece about failed crowdfunding publisher Unbound makes me.
It’s one thing to fail. It’s quite another to lie consistently to authors and backers over what appears to be years.
20 years ago today, my commute was disrupted by the 7/7 bombings in London. And I accidentally stumbled into the beginnings of the “citizen journalism” age of news…
Doing my bit for the City St George’s undergraduate open day - persuading potential students that we’re the best place in the country to do journalism…
At this point, however, Medium is the pioneer that got Substack’s arrows in its back. And frankly, I don’t like either one of them, because they’re both silos, each with their own quirks and shortcomings.
Vogue editor-in-chief of 37 years and fashion mogul icon Anna Wintour will step down after the magazine’s next cover release. The inspiration for The Devil Wears Prada will continue her roles as Vogue’s global editorial director and chief content officer of publisher Condé Nast.
For context, I’m in my early 50s - so I was still at school when she took on this role.