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Guardian’s first Substack experiment | Tindle sold to Iliffe
Reach website censured for misleading clickbait headline and latest top 50 UK news websites ranking
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Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Monday, 30 March.
📨 The Guardian is the latest major publisher to launch a newsletter on Substack.
The brand’s popular food email newsletter, Feast, will be published on Substack as well as its current platform.
While Substack is pretty basic (designs are formulaic and data is limited) it is free if you are just using it to send emails. It has handy social media-style functionality. And, most importantly, it has its own publisher ecosystem whereby recommendations from other users send new customers your way.
We’ve certainly found Substack itself to be a handy source of new subscribers helping us grow the database on this newsletter to 30,000-plus.
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As with so many of these types of stories, the headline made an imaginative leap to conjure a scary scenario about readers’ personal finance which was not warranted by the story.
The Express had 12 similar upheld complaints last year.
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📉 The latest top 50 UK news websites ranking shows some Reach titles are being hammered by changes to Google Discover, which the company revealed earlier this month have impacted referral traffic.
Lancs Live, Examiner Live, Chronicle Live and the Manchester Evening News all lost more than 20% of traffic year on year, according to Ipsos iris data. Metro and The Standard were other major brands to lose more than 20% of monthly reach compared to the same period a year ago.
Reach also had one of the fastest-growing titles in the Daily Star, up 73% year on year, and the Mirror also reported strong growth - up 15% year on year.
Overall, only 21 sites in the UK top 50 grew traffic year on year in February 2026.
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