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Hamish McKenzie

  • Co-Founder, Substack and Freelance Journalist, Freelance
San Francisco
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Covers:  china, publishing and innovation, digital publishing, digital magazines, online journalism, media, politics, venture capital, startups, tech, social media, online publishing, internet culture
Doesn't Cover: marketing, gadgets, gift guides
Co-founder of @Substack. Writer.

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Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile

Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile

When they look back at this era, Internet historians will mark Facebook's Instagram acquisition as the symbol…

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Cyworld, Protest, and Politics: Yong Joon Hyoung and the Story of a Korean Innovator

Cyworld, Protest, and Politics: Yong Joon Hyoung and the Story of a Korean Innovator

South Korea has never had a Mark Zuckerberg figure, but the man sitting opposite me in a dingy Seoul fried ch…

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Get ready for the age of premium micropublishing

Get ready for the age of premium micropublishing

Over the weekend, three young developers took part in a hackathon and cobbled together a tool that will make …

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Magical mystery machine: How Memoto's lifelogging camera could change our memories

Magical mystery machine: How Memoto's lifelogging camera could change our memories

In about 17 hours, the Kickstarter campaign for the Memoto lifelogging camera will come to an end. It has bee…

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Industry backlash threatens Australia’s gas supply fix. Leaders must step up

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By Hamish McKenzie, Alison Reeve
| The Conversation Verified
Australia is one of the world’s largest exporters of liquefied natural gas (LNG). But it faces domestic gas shortages by the 2030s as old gasfields run dry. Gas exports from the east coast only began in 2015. Since then, exports have ballooned and domestic gas prices have increased dramatically. Price spikes have driven some manufacturers to the wall. Governments have had to intervene to prevent shortages.
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Regional Victoria bears the brunt of the gas transition

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By Hamish McKenzie
| Ovens and Murray Advertiser Verified
Regional communities often get thought of last by policy makers. Australia’s policy on gas is no different. In Victoria, gas use peaked in 2017 and is set to plummet 80 per cent over the next two decades. This is mainly because households are choosing to switch to electric appliances because they are cheaper to run. But it also means that the gas networks – the businesses that own the underground pipelines that bring gas into our homes – will soon start losing money and shut up shop.
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Open Tab: Lachlan Cartwright

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By Hamish McKenzie, Tina Brown, Janice Min Verified
| On Substack
In this week’s Open Tab, Australian-born, New York–based muckraker Lachlan Cartwright sat down with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie to walk through two decades covering media, money, and power—from The Sun and the New York Post to executive editor of the National Enquirer, where he went from breaking news to becoming an anonymous source in one of the biggest political scandals of the decade.
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