In this newsletter
1. The Queen through the archives
2. Dmitry Shishkin interviews Overtone for Wan-Ifra
3. Reach's Paul Rissen on 'news product'
4. Updates & conferences
Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96, spent more than 70 years in the public eye as a sovereign, media figure and a character in history. From the British press at her doorstep to the rest of the Commonwealth to the United States and beyond, she is one of the most written-about people of the past generations. This includes both praise and scandal, academic debate and tabloid gossip, and everything in between.
More is being written every minute in light of her passing, so how do you parse through it all to decide what to read? You can type just about any keyword with her name and a relevant article will appear. Many articles are genuine, most are optimized just for SEO clicks and shares. Audience engagement editors at news outlets around the world have also been frantically sifting through their own archives. We looked through thousands of articles about the Queen, written within the last year. We've picked both the in-depth, reflective pieces like those that newsrooms globally are currently composing. Others are lighter touch articles that are quicker to digest.
How to cope with grieving someone you didn’t know
Queen: What the private monarch was like behind the doors of Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth II made her image into a logo—but what was she representing?
Why we must allow the sovereign to retire
£187m of Windsor family wealth hidden in secret royal wills
Guernsey stamps mark Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Will we celebrate our Elizabethan architecture?
Is Eastenders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale on tonight after The Queen's death?
Scores:
1. Metro UK - Sept. 2022 - In-depth
2. Sky News - Sept. 2022 - In-depth
3. Irish Independent - Feb 2022 - In-depth
4. Fast Company - Sept 2022 - In-depth
5. Irish Independent - Feb 2022 - In-depth
6. New Statesman - Feb 2022 - In-depth
7. The Guardian - July 2022 - In-depth
7. BBC - January 2022 - Low-depth
8. Policy Exchange - March 2022 - In-depth
9. Daily Mail - November 2021 - In-depth
10. Essex Echo - Sept 2022 - Low-depth
Dmitry Shishkin interview
Overtone is pleased to have joined WAN-IFRA, the global association for news and news publishers. Dmitry Shishkin, who pioneered the concept of user needs while at the BBC, helped us explain what we do in this Q&A.
“Added human effort” - the most important column in your spreadsheet
Paul Rissen on the emergence of “product”
What is the emerging field of news product, and what kind of internet can we build with more data on articles? Here’s a blog post with Reach PLC’s Paul Rissen
”The point is communicating, in this case to a machine”
Overtone updates
Forward our full-stack engineering post to your techy friend
We’ll be at the ONA conference in Los Angeles and at WAN-IFRA in Zaragoza, Spain. Send us an email if you’ll be there too!