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jkap
@jkap

it is kind of funny to me that the verge was one of the first publications to talk about us but in the interim time seems to have completely forgotten we exist. i'm not really fond of doing Active PR in the sense of "reaching out to publications" or w/e but it feels like the only way to be taken seriously. wack


erica
@erica

[VERY LOUD PRICE IS RIGHT LOSING HORN]


zumphry
@zumphry
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in reply to @jkap's post:

The big issue here I think is that Verge didn't assign the piece to the person who wrote the last piece. They likely wanted the big guys to write it now that it feels like Twitter's collapse appears far more imminent than ever before. But David probably didn't get a memo on past coverage (despite being editor-at-large) and that's on him.

Looking up your prior coverage you had two writers from two different beats, one seems to be a features writer, probably freelance by the lack of detailed byline, and the other was by the reviews editor. I'm wondering if any discussion was held internally to just talk about the latest piece between the previous writers or if there was any serious inquiry as to what past coverage was done.

While I don't particularly think it's necessarily merited to have a literal beat on Twitter's collapse, what Verge should be doing is having an editor or writer serving as the Twitter point-man to keep up and keep in mind existing coverage, that way things don't fall through the cracks.....

But hey, journalism in 2023 amirite?

so the thing we would suggest is building relationships with specific reporters

the way to do that is to keep having stuff to say. easier said than done, yes. "this new thing exists!" is a news story.... once. it doesn't result in continuing coverage.

for-profits solve this problem by having lots of new things, so there's always a new story. we advise against going that route, in the strongest possible terms; we doubt we have to explain why.

as an activist and in our day job, we solve this problem by having core issues where we are the experts on them and the new story is that the societal issue continues to be bad but in a new way. we don't know how that might adapt to your situation, but we offer it in case it's helpful somehow.

in reply to @erica's post:

Discord is the worst replacement for these other websites. Its function is totally different, I don't get how you could use it like Twitter/Reddit

I've joked with friends since the forced name changes in discord that it's only a matter of time before they add a feed you can post to