Recent posts and articles

15.05.25 - The investigative reporter Andrew Norfolk passed away yesterday. He represented a type of fearless journalism that must be protected.

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/a-timely-reminder-about-journalism

09.05.25 - Mark Zuckerberg is laying out a vision for a synthetic sales machine

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/trust-in-the-black-box

09.05.25 - A podcast video with Sarah Marshall from Condé Nast discussing the impact of AI on media

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/scotch-and-watch-sarah-marshall

01.05.25 - And how 2025 is 2005 all over again

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/the-seven-ages-of-media

24.04.25 - Like a long running TV series, all the storylines of the internet are converging... 

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/what-a-world-wide-web-we-weave

16.04.25 - How a superpower trade war may lead to more liability for digital platform owners 

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/have-trumps-tariffs-made-section

03.04.25 - How Meta and now X use social data to pull up the drawbridge 

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/do-you-consent-to-build-my-moat

27.03.25 - The recent study on the value of news may not say quite what they claim

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/google-and-the-centipede-fallacy

21.03.25 - The most prolific editor in the world is an unknown genius

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/editing-by-the-numbers

13.03.24 -If Apple's default search contract with Google has to be shut down, what do they do next?

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/big-game-on-safari-as-doj-puts-search

06.03.24 - How would you design that from scratch, and who is closest right now?

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/building-a-future-proof-publisher

28.02.25 - A government consultation has created a battle over the future of copyright. 

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/acts-for-the-encouragement-of-learning

20.02.25 - Lessons on how to choose your lunch partners carefully

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/all-you-can-eat-publishing

14.02.25 - On the nature of Algorithmic Editing and how media organisations must adapt

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/how-many-ts-in-diversification

07.02.25 - The Sun is launching subscriptions again, which takes me back to a period of epic personal failure

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/learning-from-my-mistakes

30.01.25 - Intellectual property rights attract intellectually thin arguments...watch out for them in the months to come

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/sweet-little-lies

24.01.25 - If  digital platforms can disappear for political reasons, what does that tell us?

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/tik-tik-tik-tik-boom

17.01.25 - On plans for AI from the UK government, Open AI and Meta

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisduncania/p/kings-of-the-wild-frontier

10.01.25 - On the new content moderation policies announced by Meta 

https://chrisduncania.substack.com/p/meta-chapter-and-verse

05.12.24 - On the historical efforts of publishers to innovate in digital

https://chrisduncania.substack.com/p/publishers-and-the-open-web-how-publishers

30.10.24 - On the strategic moves made by emerging digital platforms over twenty years, and the impact this has had on the nature of the modern internet

https://chrisduncania.substack.com/p/roadworks-on-the-open-web-who-builds

24.10.24 - On the legal complexities of copyright and AI, as Newscorp and Perplexity head to court

https://chrisduncania.substack.com/p/scraping-a-living

14.10.24 - On the running battle for control between government and digital platforms that is coming to a head in 2025

https://chrisduncania.substack.com/p/the-world-of-information-is-having