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January 15, 2022

New report: Media Moments 2021

What's New in Publishing is pleased to launch its annual report Media Moments 2021, sponsored by Sovrn and written by the Media Voices team. This comprehensive report covers trends in...

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August 5, 2022

Podcast ideas to steal: Reading aloud, long ads, and voice messages

Media Voices co-host Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries. Each edition shares the best magazine publishing ideas he comes across for you to steal, adapt or...

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August 3, 2022

A tale of three publishers: UK daily news brands eye a more stable future

After decades of disruption and painful digital transformation, the UK’s ‘quality’ daily news publishers - once called broadsheets - seem to have finally...

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July 29, 2022

Publishing ideas to steal: the mix of six, keeping it brief, and featured podcasts

Media Voices co-host Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries. Each edition shares the best magazine publishing ideas he comes across for you to steal, adapt...

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July 27, 2022

“This is a digital business masquerading as a print business:” As the dust settles on the Dotdash Meredith merger, what’s the outlook for its print magazines?

Digital publisher Dotdash’s merger last year with magazine company Meredith may have made a lot of business sense. But Dotdash, which has no print experience, is...

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July 25, 2022

Medium VP of Content Scott Lamb on the platform’s evolution and vision for the future

In our final episode of the season, we hear from Medium's VP of Content Scott Lamb. Scott leads the content and creator relations teams at the platform, so we talked about Medium's famous pivots,...

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July 22, 2022

Publishing ideas to steal: cover stars, bartender newsagents, and cutting ads

Media Voices co-host Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries. Each edition shares the best magazine publishing ideas he comes...

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July 20, 2022

Immediate’s HistoryExtra podcast celebrates 15 years with 150 million listens

“It just felt like podcasting was made for history,” HistoryExtra’s Dr David Musgrove told us. As the podcast celebrates its 15th birthday, it has also just broken another...

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July 18, 2022

PPA CEO Sajeeda Merali on supporting publishers in a changing industry

This week we hear from Sajeeda Merali, CEO of the Professional Publishers Association (PPA). We talked about what her publishing background brings to the organisation,...

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July 15, 2022

What’s next for Media Voices

Since launching our appeal for help a few weeks ago, we’ve had a huge number of really helpful responses, suggestions, offers of collaboration and help. Thank you...

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July 11, 2022

RocaNews CEO Max Towey on rebuilding the younger generation’s trust in news

This week we hear from Max Towey, Co-Founder and CEO at RocaNews. RocaNews is a start-up building a community around the news that lowers the blood pressure; they believe alarmist and partisan...

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July 5, 2022

As the New York Times soars, The Washington Post appears to be losing momentum

Since Jeff Bezos’ $250 million buyout of The Washington Post in 2013, the publisher’s fortunes have turned around. In recent years it has been seen - alongside the New York Times - as a poster...

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July 4, 2022

Recurrent Media CEO Lance Johnson on acquiring and growing content businesses

On this week's episode we hear from Lance Johnson, CEO of Recurrent Media. You might not have heard of them (yet), but you will have heard of some of their 25...

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July 1, 2022

Publishing ideas to steal: building bundles, rebooting greatest hits, and audio articles

Media Voices co-host Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries. Each edition shares the best magazine publishing ideas he comes across for you to steal, adapt or...

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June 30, 2022

Time Out’s future isn’t in media. That leaves a gap.

Time Out magazine has just printed its last edition. “It's been a privilege and a...

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June 29, 2022

We need your help: a letter from Media Voices

We’re stuck at an inflection point familiar to many creators. Media Voices increasingly needs more hours in a day than we can afford to give it, but until we...

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June 24, 2022

Publishing ideas to steal: local celebrities, podcasts, and low-cost alternatives

Media Voices co-host Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries. Each edition shares the best magazine publishing ideas he comes across for you to steal, adapt or...

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June 23, 2022

Media Voices at Cannes 2022

This week, Media Voices co-host Peter Houston is at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France. He catches up with attendees at the festival to find out what publishers and...

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June 21, 2022

4 things we learned about email newsletters from the Digital News Report 2022

This year's hotly-anticipated Digital News Report 2022 from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has landed. The report surveys over 93,000 online news consumers across 46 markets,...

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June 20, 2022

Special: Key findings from the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2022

In this special episode of Media Voices, Chris, Peter and Esther comb through the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2022 to pick out the key findings for publishers. This year's report...

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June 15, 2022

Affino’s Markus Karlsson and TTG Media’s Steve Hinds on unlocking the benefits of software systems consolidation

Publishing is way behind other industries when it comes to technology consolidation. Compared with five or six key software platforms in most sectors, it is not uncommon to see publishers running...

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  • Publishing ideas to steal: the mix of six, keeping it brief, and featured podcasts
  • “This is a digital business masquerading as a print business:” As the dust settles on the Dotdash Meredith merger, what’s the outlook for its print magazines?
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