Culture

Inside the Binge Factory

A behind the scenes look at how Netflix went from “a digital warehouse for other conglomerates’ intellectual property”, to producing “more television than any network in history”. A de-centralised commissioning structure, data, and a relentless focus on growth are three of the key ingredients.

The African Enlightenment

A piece proposing that many of the ideas of Enlightenment philosophy put forward by Locke, Hume and Kant had actually been conceived a century earlier in Ethiopia.

The Tortoise and the Share

Amol Rajan, BBC Media Editor and former Editor of The Independent, delivered this lecture on the future of journalism, aptly summarised in the subhead as “How to Save Journalism (from Itself)”.

Bad romance

If “Her Cocky Doctors” and “Her Cocky Firefighters” aren’t familiar to you, you probably haven’t come across the scandal in the self-published romance novel world known as “Cockygate”. This piece dives into the world of romance authors battling for supremacy on the Amazon e-book charts.