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Hello, I'm Gemma and welcome to another episode of Good Empliments.

This is the podcast where I welcome our guests to discuss their experiences,

answer your questions and teach us something new.

This week we're talking about social media as news.

Communicating effectively with a global audience,

the difficulty of separating individuals from their platforms,

and not being ashamed to admit we care about all sorts of different things.

So joining me this week is Lucy from Shit You Should Care About.

Lucy is one of three founders of the popular Instagram account,

which now has over three and a half million followers,

and has also branched out into a whole multimedia platform,

including a daily newsletter and multiple podcasts.

Shit You Should Care About, quite a self-explanatory name,

keeps subscribers up to date on new and noteworthy events around the world,

and has carved out quite a niche by mixing hard news with a strong and

proudly and into pop culture, fandom, and lighthearted daily polls.

It's not fun to wake up and write about another mess shooting in the states,

or people being stripped of their right to get abortion,

but the thing that keeps me doing it is that I have this audience

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