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Fallout from the Fast Company hack — onemanandhisblog.com

Fast Company's Apple News account was seemingly hacked. That's bad enough. But in the immediate aftermath the official Apple News Twitter account was forced to put out a tweet decrying the 'incredibly offensive' content pushed out by the hacker, noting it had suspended Fast Company's account. And then it turned out Fast Company's entire back end had been compromised, and as of time of writing had been replaced by a holding page.

"Before it disappeared, Fast Company's website included a message from the hackers "postpixel" in which they described how they had been able to execute the attack by infiltrating Fast Company's WordPress back-end, and ridiculed the publication's efforts to secure its publishing tools and administrator portal."

Oof. That's quite the cascade of failures. You have to feel bad for the Fast Company team who have had to scramble to deal with this, and for the Apple News Twitter team who probably spat out their coffees in shock. It's a reminder that news sites need to be on top of their own security (and should probably have crisis comms preplanned for similar events).

Publishers test personalizing newsletters with varying degrees of success — digiday.com

A very good and concise look at how publishers including Reach are attempting to personalise newsletters. Unsurprisingly, even with proprietary and off-the-shelf solutions, it's very hard to get it right. That said, you personally look very nice today, that's right, you reading this newsletter right this very moment.

Meet Context: Our new journalism platform — www.context.news

The Thomson Reuters Foundation has launched a new journalist platform, one which will cover three critical issues of our time: climate change, impact of technology on society and the need for more inclusive economies. Good name.

BBC World Service to cut 380 jobs in digital-first move — deadline.com

BBC World Service teams are to be asked to relocate away from the UK, according to Deadline. The folly of any drive to cut BBC journalists' jobs was demonstrated yesterday as BBC local radio presenters held our useless PM's feet to the fire, so this is a depressing epilogue.

New episode:

As the streaming wars heat up, a reckoning is coming for traditional TV — voices.media

For this next season of the Media Voices Podcast, kindly sponsored by Poool, we’ll be publishing ten episodes exploring the biggest trends of 2022 and how they affect publishers. For this first episode, we're joined by The Addition's Charlotte Henry to explore how key moments in broadcast, streaming and TV have shaped the media landscape this year.

We need to talk about podcast listener numbers — voices.media

Most podcasts probably get fewer listens than you think. As the gold rush continues, are we in danger of skewing podcast listener numbers to try and keep up?