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The British canal network that peaked around 1820 did not fail for lack of ambition. Its engineers built aqueducts across valleys and locks so finely calibrated that narrowboats climbed hundreds of feet. None of it mattered once the railway arrived, because the question had already changed.

News organisations have spent three decades answering disruption the same way — intelligently, iteratively, and always inside the model that was failing. Four iterations. Each a better canal.

This is a field guide to the railway. Twenty chapters set out how a news organisation can be rebuilt around what it actually knows: a two-layer newsroom with an editorial firewall between the journalism and the machine, content tribes in place of sections, and an honest account of where the revenue now comes from and what it costs to earn.

Written for media leaders — editors-in-chief, publishers, heads of product, and anyone who has to make these decisions.

Hardback · November 2026 ISBN 978-1-0666913-3-3 Paperback · November 2026 ISBN 978-1-0666913-8-8 Kindle · November 2026 ISBN 978-1-0666913-5-7

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