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Shine Bright HQ returns

hi + how are you?

To our 4800+ subscribers, heeeeyyyyyyy! To my new folks: welcome, and thanks for joining ! Some folks in this community have been with us since HRDCVR — and you are loved and appreciated. This is a return to Substack after some time spent at Flodesk. I’m a magazine editor (Vibe, Billboard) from the ‘90s and aughts, so I was seduced by Flodesk’s design possibilities. Man! It was fun working within that platform ⬇️

But there’s little to no community over there! And I’m excited about the design stuff Substack has implemented — and the workarounds, which you will see us trying out here. In journalism, in mass communication, in information science: design and imagery matter ⬇️ ⬇️

Among many other things, it reinforces to the audience that they are valued.