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A monthly personal essay tracking the forces disrupting media: platforms, AI, funding models, and power. Each issue works through what's shifting and why it matters.
Patrick Boehler writes re:filtered to think clearly about how the media ecosystem is changing. The newsletter questions assumptions, surfaces patterns, and stays honest about uncertainty.
Archive
#26: Journalism is a service that has never been designed as one
#25: The missing layer of media strategy
#24: A craft that outlasts an industry
#23: Double servitude
#22: Your suffering isn't a public service
#21: Allies without press passes
#20: Finding the nerds while journalism finds itself
#19: No saints needed
#18: A dispatch from the European journalism support ruins of 2030
#17: The promise and peril of AI-powered audience insights
#16: The limits of both data and intuition
#15: When 'independence' becomes clientelism, and how to genuinely reclaim it
#14: 'Journalism needs to decenter journalism'
#13: Thoughts on this moment and research on how people share news
#12: The metamorphosis of media leadership & 2025 predictions
#10: Democracy crumbles in darkness
#9: Tangible media experiences
#8: How we think about information may be too narrow
#7: Research is reporting, reporting is research
#6: Your truth isn't necessarily my need
#5: Google Zero isn't new to exiled media
#4: Journalism awards for jobs done
#3: From volume to ‘Lifetime Civic Value’
#1: A place for legacy media amid, and after, the news apocalypse