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Venn Web Journalism & Opinion
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Editor - Venn

Tarquin Vael

Writing about the systems behind web journalism - who controls the story, who profits from it, and what gets left out.

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Tarquin Vael, editor and lead writer at Venn
8yrs
Covering digital media and web journalism full-time
340+
Published pieces across Venn and external outlets
14k
Readers engaging with Venn virtual coverage monthly
2025
Year Venn launched as an independent editorial project
Background

Where this perspective comes from

The work is informed by years spent inside newsrooms, alongside platforms, and occasionally against both.

Editorial workspace at Venn

Before Venn, Tarquin spent six years contributing to digital newsrooms where the gap between editorial intent and platform incentive was something you felt daily - in headline rewrites, in traffic dashboards, in the stories that quietly got killed.

That experience shapes everything here. The writing at Venn doesn't pretend neutrality is possible, or that objectivity and honesty are the same thing. Opinion is declared upfront, arguments are built from evidence, and readers are expected to push back.

The Venn virtual space exists because web journalism is a subject that rarely gets examined by the people producing it. This is an attempt to change that - one argument at a time.

Collaborative editorial session
Research and fact-checking process

What this publication actually covers

Platform accountability Who sets the rules for what gets published, amplified, or suppressed - and why those decisions rarely get scrutinised publicly.
Publishing economics The funding structures, ad models, and subscription experiments that quietly determine which journalism survives.
Editorial independence What it takes to maintain a distinct editorial voice when traffic, advertisers, and algorithms all pull in different directions.
Venn virtual coverage Digital-first stories about the infrastructure of online media - formats, distribution, and the tools journalists actually use.
Contributing writer at Venn

"The most interesting journalism about the web isn't being written by people who love the web. It's being written by people who are genuinely unsure about it."

- Tarquin Vael, Venn
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Opinion that earns its position

Every piece at Venn is an argument, not a summary. Disagreement is expected and welcomed.

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Eight years of writing on web journalism - platform shifts, editorial crises, and the occasional piece that aged badly and stayed up anyway.

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Get in touch

Pitches, corrections, arguments, and genuine questions all go to the same place. Response time varies, but everything gets read.

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