“The demand is definitely there”: How Social Spider is making local news commercially viable
Local news is under more pressure than ever. But as Covid has demonstrated, having local sources of information is...
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Social Spider MD David Floyd on finding a better way to fund local news
On this week's episode of Media Voices we hear from David Floyd,...
NDC Mediagroep’s Ard Boer and United Robots’ Cecilia Campbell on how robot journalism is powering the modern newsroom
In this special Conversations episode we hear about the past,...
Terri White on the conflict between parenting and the ‘best job in the world’ at EMPIRE magazine
“The reality is, if I hadn’t have had my baby, I would still be editing EMPIRE...
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“The demand is definitely there”: How Social Spider is making local news commercially viable
Local news is under more pressure than ever. But as Covid has demonstrated, having local sources of information is vital both for keeping communities connected and holding local power to account.
However, local news...
Terri White on the conflict between parenting and the ‘best job in the world’ at EMPIRE magazine
“The reality is, if I hadn’t have had my baby, I would still be editing EMPIRE now,” Terri White tells us in the latest episode of Media Voices. “And that’s a hard pill for me to swallow, because you don’t imagine that you would have to make that choice in this day and...
“We jumped from 2020 to 2023 in a weekend:” Bauer UK CEO Chris Duncan on building subscriptions through a crisis
A revenue drop of 80% and staff scattered to the four winds isn’t what you want to be dealing with in your first week at a new company. But this is the situation Bauer’s new CEO of UK Publishing Chris Duncan had to face when he joined the company from Times...
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NDC Mediagroep’s Ard Boer and United Robots’ Cecilia Campbell on how robot journalism is powering the modern newsroom
In this special Conversations episode we hear about the past, future and most importantly present of robot journalism. Automated journalism has been around for many...
Eurosport’s Aude Baron discusses turning evergreen content into success in podcasting with Podinstall’s Sarah Toporoff
For publishers with a well established content workflow, adding podcasts can seem like a daunting task. But, as this Conversations episode demonstrates, those publishers already have what is...
Pugpig’s Jonny Kaldor discusses the state of the digital publishing market
Last year, the team at Pugpig decided to take a step back from their day-to-day development work and get a sense of what was going on in the wider digital publishing market. Analysing data from...
Reach PLC’s Terry Hornsby discusses the value of the open internet to advertisers with Lotame’s Chris Hogg
Over the past two years publishers have rightly been shouting about the power of their first party data. Understandably, that’s led to many becoming protective of the data that underpins this...
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Social Spider MD David Floyd on finding a better way to fund local news
On this week's episode of Media Voices we hear from David Floyd,...
