Archive - The Shift

10 Things from Cannes Lions 2025 🇫🇷

If you feel like everyone and their mother is at Cannes, don’t worry – I’ve been cruising the Croisette from home. [#194]

Jun 22 •

People buy people, not brands: The human connection

Lessons from London's Publisher Newsletter Summit and Awards [#193]

Jun 15 •

“I’m explaining my life in a comic book – it’s a form of active resistance.”

#BookoftheMonth: The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile, and a micro interview!

Jun 8 •

How to beat scammers. Plus: The Publisher Summits & Awards 2025 - save ££ on your ticket [#191]

Jun 1 •

May 2025

Café trauma - when your mobile office isn't welcome

The rise of 'Fourth Spaces' and can remote work save our pubs? [#190]

May 25 •

Attention monsters

How free can we truly be? [#189]

May 18 •

A casual Substack nightmare

Lucy Werner: Back up your work! [#188]

May 11 •

Personal sovereignty

Doomberg on doing the work of your life [#186]

May 4 •

April 2025

Network with newsletter pros

Save ££ on the Publisher Summits & Awards in June. [#185]

Apr 27 •

#ijf25: Perugia's big week in media

+ Upcoming events on fr33lancing and newsletters. [#184]

Apr 20 •

and

Get the Zuck off our books

+ April events for writers [#183]

Apr 6 •

March 2025

What the Dickens!

Meta's AI book heist - what to do + the history of hot cross buns [#182]

Mar 30 •

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