Hi, I’m Harry
I'm the Digital Director at Dazed Media, where I oversee the growth and development of Dazed, AnOther and NOWNESS.
CTRL + ALT + REPEAT is a weekly internal memo I write for the Dazed team (with the help of Will Palmer, our excellent Data Analyst) about traffic, growth and audience development trends. This newsletter is a public version, although not everything you read here is from our internal memo – we have to have some secrets!
You can expect round-ups of must-read pieces, deep dives on shifting audiences, summaries of experiments and launches, and passable jokes. If you work in digital publishing, this is the newsletter for you. I hope you find it useful.
Bio
Before joining Dazed in 2022, I was the Acting Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost UK and steered its 40-person newsroom through the Covid pandemic, global civil rights movement and the early stages of the site's acquisition by BuzzFeed in 2020. I was also Executive Editor of Audience Development and responsible for social media, search engine optimisation, data in the newsroom and audience growth.
Previously, I was based in New York with The Guardian as Deputy and then Head of Audience Development for a number of years, including the Trump presidency. I held similar roles in the London newsroom too.
A few other headlines:
I'm a member of The Lenfest Institute's Audience Community of Practice.
I taught digital journalism with PA Media's training arm until July 2023.
I've spoken at the Tow Center at Columbia University, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and PA’s Festival of Journalism with the Google News Initiative.
And I've written in the British Journalism Review about how important it is for journalists to know their audience.
