Welcome to the weekend,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
How Julius Caesar made the longest year on record.
This is service journalism in action. The folks over at The City were concerned the limitations of being a digital-only magazine were keeping people in their local community from benefitting from their journalism, and that not having updated information was potentially putting those people in danger. So, the journalists got creative. When they ran a story about areas in the city deregulating heating, “[t]o locate the most relevant neighborhood to the story, we used 311 call data to find the New York zip codes with the most heat-related complaints per person. Then, we sent the guide to nearly 1,400 addresses via postcards.”
“You should not have too much confidence in your own judgment”; Cowen’s Three Laws.
How a German broadcaster helped establish the BBC’s first non-English service in Saudi Arabia, navigating differences in sensibility, style, and the outbreak of both World Wars.
Go Inside the Dahlia Wars.
Currently reading: Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Have a great weekend.
