Media Folk who are ABSOLUTE LEGENDS
A (by no means exhaustive) selection of amazing journalists, audience-growth experts and just generally nice people to follow.
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@stevewb.bsky.social
@jonsopel1.bsky.social
Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
@maitlis.bsky.social
Co host @thenewsagents . Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
@paleofuture.bsky.social
Tech reporter @Gizmodo.com. I’ve been writing about the history of futurism @Paleofuture.com since 2007. Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com Signal: mattnovak.11
@sulliview.bsky.social
Columnist at GuardianUS. Thinking/teaching at Columbia J School. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack)
@mikebutcher.bsky.social
(MBE) Editor-at-large @TechCrunch | mike@techcrunch.com | Signal: mikebutcher.04 | http://mikebutcher.me | linkedin.com/in/mikebutcher | Columnist / Speaker / Moderator / Broadcaster | Founder: TheEuropas, Techfugees, TechVets
@lukebailey.bsky.social
we still live in a hellworld of our own making, but the memes are getting better. editorial innovation director at the i paper (which will be here very soon)
@ajreid.bsky.social
Senior journalist, BBC News digital formats team, aka finding new ways to do the news. Prevs: Big Issue, PA Media, First Draft, Journalism.co.uk, AJ English.
@petepaphides.bsky.social
It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day. https://www.patreon.com/c/NeedleMythology
@mattuthompson.bsky.social
Home & Political Correspondent at Sky News. Norn Irish, girl dad, linguist. Email: matthew.thompson4@sky.uk DMs open.
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social
Broadcaster, Journalist, lover of swimming. Find me @LBC 1-4pm or anytime @globalplayer. For work enquiries contact yellowpoppymedia.com …
@martinibuster.bsky.social
20+ years search marketing experience. I write for Search Engine Journal
@aleyda.bsky.social
SEO Consultant, Speaker & Author. @Orainti Founder @Remotersnet Co-Founder @CrawlingMondays Host #SEOFOMO + #MarketingFOMO + http://LearningSEO.io Maker @mujeresEnSEO
@jono.id
Award-winning technical SEO consultant. I help brands to compete on technical SEO, performance, and structured data. https://www.jonoalderson.com
@chrismoranuk.bsky.social
Guardian's head of editorial innovation. Focusing on AI in the newsroom
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
@helenlewis.bsky.social
Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 and Strong Message Here | Doom scroller, the internet
@aiannucci.bsky.social
Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
@shippersunbound.bsky.social
Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
@pippacrerar.bsky.social
Political Editor, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
@guardianheather.bsky.social
Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum. heather.stewart@theguardian.com
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jester of goodwill (journalist, author, radio person, etc) marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
@charlottetobitt.bsky.social
News, features and analysis about the news media business. UK editor at @pressgazette.co.uk - get me on charlotte.tobitt@pressgazette.co.uk
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@newsagents.bsky.social
Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond. With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player. .
@michaelawalters.bsky.social
Digital editor, The News Agents. Find us: https://bsky.app/profile/thenewsagents.bsky.social
@charlesubaghs.bsky.social
Managing Editor @GlobalPlayer & Director of Digital Content @Global (LBC, Capital, Classic FM etc). Co-founder @PopBuzz + digital content for podcasts like @TheNewsAgents
@polemicdigital.com
Specialised SEO consultant for news publishers. Co-founder of the News & Editorial SEO Summit. Consulting: https://www.PolemicDigital.com Newsletter: https://www.SEOforGooglenews.com Event: https://NewsSEO.io
@pressgazette.co.uk
News about the world of news. Sign up to our free newsletters here: https://pressgazette.co.uk/all-newsletters/ Stories and tips: pged@pressgazette.co.uk
@janinegibson.ft.com
Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
@arusbridger.bsky.social
Editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk / Former EiC the Guardian/ @reutersinstitute ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@data.ft.com
The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories. https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
@schwarzenegger.bsky.social
Bodybuilder. Conan. Terminator. Former Governor. I killed the Predator. I told you I’d be back. Join my positive corner of the internet - Arnold’s Pump Club.
@jim.londoncentric.media
Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
@lewisgoodall.com
Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12. Website: lewisgoodall.com Email: lewis.goodall@global.com Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
@emilybell.bsky.social
Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
@stevewb.bsky.social
Head of SEO at Global (LBC, Radio X, Heart, Capital, Smooth, Gold, Classic and The News Agents). | Chair of AOP UK Journalism Advisory Board. News SEO, Journalism & the occasional synth.