New beginnings ✨

A mini break in York + this week’s recs [#200]

Sep 7 • 

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4

August 2025

🍉 Honouring Gazan journalists

Be opposite Downing St at 5.30 pm (or join us online) + a human project. [#200]

Aug 27 • 

Nika Talbot

3

Plagiarism on Substack

Protecting your work online [#199]

Aug 3 • 

Nika Talbot

7

4

July 2025

Let’s talk money

🤑 A Pocketful of Rye [#198]

Jul 27 • 

Nika Talbot

5

3

Being laid off

PLUS: 💎 Internet Gems – what I’ve been reading, watching and listening to this week [#197]

Jul 20 • 

Nika Talbot

7

Ready to rock 🤘

Black Sabbath: 57 years on, still going strong [#196]

Jul 6 • 

Nika Talbot

3

5

June 2025

A freelance champion

👀 UK Government’s £380m Creative Industries Sector Plan [#195]

Jun 29 • 

Nika Talbot

8

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 • 

Nika Talbot

2

People buy people, not brands: The human connection

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

Jun 15 • 

Nika Talbot

5

2

“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 • 

Nika Talbot

5

Gone phishing

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

Jun 1 • 

Nika Talbot

3

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 • 

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5

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