Media Voices is a weekly publication profiling the people and products powering publishing.
We publish The Publisher Podcast and The Publisher Newsletter every Tuesday, featuring an interview with a leading publishing executive on our core subject areas; podcasts, newsletters, apps, websites, print, analytics, data and AI. Our focus is on the practical takeaways publishers can apply to their own products.
As well as the podcast and newsletter, we also run monthly online masterclasses, and an annual Awards and Summit programme dedicated to publisher podcasts and newsletters.
If you know someone who would make a brilliant guest, please contact Esther at esther@voices.media, but please read our pitching guidelines first (below).
For sponsorship or commercial opportunities, please see our sponsorship page or contact Peter at peter@voices.media.
Esther Kezia Thorpe
Esther Kezia Thorpe is co-founder of Media Voices and director of the Publisher Newsletter and Publisher Podcast Awards and Summits. When not organising guests for the podcast or writing reports, she is a freelance media analyst for a number of industry publications including Digital Content Next, A Media Operator and Media Makers Meet (formerly What’s New in Publishing).
Find Esther on Linkedin or reach her at esther@voices.media
Peter Houston
Peter Houston has worked in publishing, print and digital, for more than 35 years. He recently wrote Practical AI for Local Media, highlighting real-world AI applications for publishers. Peter is also publisher of The Grub Street Journal, a quarterly print magazine for people who love magazines, and writes The Magazine Diaries newsletter of publishing ideas worth stealing.
Peter tweets from @Flipping_Pages and can be reached at peter@voices.media
Chris Sutcliffe
Chris is a freelance media journalist and A/V producer. He has experience in print production for national newspapers and trade magazines, and has done consultancy and product development for some of the biggest print and digital publishers internationally. He can’t cook – but is working on it.
Chris tweets as @ChrisMSutcliffe and can be reached at chris@voices.media
Guest pitches
We welcome guest recommendations, especially of women and diverse voices in media and publishing. Self-nominations or suggestions of people you think would be great are fine too – just drop us a note.
Please note – we currently have a huge backlog of guest pitches for 2024/5. We’ll endeavour to get back to you asap but please bear with us!
For PRs, here are some guidelines for telling us about a potential guest:
- Our interviews focus on the people and products powering publishing. Do give us as much info as you can about what their role is in the organisation, and background if relevant.
- Don’t worry about suggesting topics. Our interviews aren’t topic-based, they’re people and product-based.
- If there’s a recent launch or milestone with products e.g. a newsletter update or podcast achievement with the organisation, this helps with the angle we approach the interview from.
- We don’t interview vendors or solution providers on the main podcast. Check out our sponsorship page for a more detailed overview of our vendor podcast options and audience breakdown.
We try and respond to everyone who suggests guests, but we get a lot of emails, so please be patient! We carefully balance the range of voices each season as well as the organisations we have on, from global publishers to indie magazines.
If a guest isn’t quite right for us at the time they’re suggested, they may well be a fit for a later season.