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Tiktok is slowly coming to dominate the social media scene, but journalism has largely struggled to make inroads on the app. Then something changed.

Twitter Spaces for publishers: What is it, what role can it play in journalism and why are so many outlets experimenting with Twitter's audio feature?

News Corp has “extended and expanded” its content licensing deal with Apple, the publisher has announced.

Some publishers have figured out how to regularly get their work into the prime real estate of the 'What’s happening?' sidebar. Press Gazette asks them how.

There are certainly journalists who'd benefit from having somewhere besides their tabs bar to store reads, but can Pocket bring publishers engaged readers?

Twitter for publishers: Can Spaces, Scroll and subscription plans help Twitter become a "tier one" tech platform for news companies?

Scroll for publishers: Twitter this week announced it was buying Scroll, an ad-blocking subscription service that shares its revenues with publishers.

Available as an iOS app since March 2020, Clubhouse describes itself as a “drop-in audio chat” platform. What does this mean? On opening the app, users – who have their own profiles, followers and followings, as on Twitter – can scroll through their homepage (pictured left) and opt to join different audio-based chats. At the top of the home screen are upcoming meetings, or ‘rooms’, hosted by clubs that users follow. On entering a room, users can listen in on the discussion and virtu...

In the latest edition of Press Gazette’s Platform Profile series, we seek to explain why some large news groups remain absent from TikTok. We examine the pros and cons of the platform for publishers and share some tips from the Washington Post’s Jorgenson (video below). What is TikTok? In a couple of years, TikTok has grown from being an unknown entity outside of China into one of the world’s biggest social media platforms. Originally known as Musical.ly, the app was rebranded as TikTok i...

If you’ve ever spent hours taking screenshots of your online articles for fear they might be lost forever on the internet’s ever-changing tide, then Authory might be for you. The platform goes beyond the results of simply searching your own name on Google, claiming to find every last article carrying a user’s byline that exists in cyberspace. Once captured the articles are protected even from the demise of the website on which they first appeared. Authory continues to automatically update...