James Breiner: the business of news — Issue #69

A Quick Guide on Building Your Audience From Scratch | by Jenna N. Chambers | Creators Hub | Jul, 2021 | Medium — medium.com
There is no secret method or cheat code for growing your audience or increasing story views. Genuine audience growth and readership happens organically over time. When we are building an audience…

Inside TikTok’s Highly Secretive Algorithm — Investigation: How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires — www.wsj.com
A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of time you linger o

China: Taobao, Weibo fined for illegal child content — BBC News — www.bbc.com
Major online platforms like Weibo, Taobao and QQ have been fined and ordered to “clean up”.

The Best Story Comments You’ve Ever Received | by Liz Kotin | Creators Hub | Jul, 2021 | Medium — medium.com
In our most recent Hub Talk, we asked “What’s the best comment you’ve ever received on a story?” We got some fantastic responses back from writers — comments that ran the gamut from funny to…