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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 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 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 8, 2022

Media Voices at FIPP Congress 2022: Rebuilding from Covid

Media Voices co-host Peter Houston has jetted off to Cascais, Portugal for the 2022 FIPP World Media Congress. He catches up with speakers and attendees at the event to find out what they're...

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May 25, 2022

Condé’s comparison of magazine readers to web and social audiences makes no sense. One of these things is not like the others

I get it. I really do. It’s tough to do print profitably at scale. But a ‘print is dying’ narrative founded on the idea that online audiences are just...

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April 20, 2022

Lessons from award-winning podcasts: Nature’s Benjamin Thompson

Springer Nature's flagship Nature Podcast has been a strong competitor in our Awards. The podcast scooped the Best Science & Medical Podcast in 2020, and in 2021, also won the Best Coronavirus...

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April 13, 2022

Lessons from award-winning podcasts: The Art Newspaper’s Ben Luke

The winner of the Best Hobbies & Special Interest Podcast at 2021's Publisher Podcast Awards was The Week in Art from The Art Newspaper. Judges noted how the presenters made an in-depth topic...

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April 11, 2022

Lessons from award-winning podcasts: DC Thomson’s Christopher Phin

The winner of the Publisher Podcast Hero of the Year award at our first ever Publisher Podcast Awards in 2020 was Christopher Phin. We were constantly impressed by his efforts to not just...

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April 6, 2022

Lessons from award-winning podcasts: The Week’s Holden Frith

For two years running, The Week Unwrapped has scooped the 'Best News Podcast', fending off competition from some of the biggest names in publishing. Judges for 2021's awards highlighted the superb...

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April 4, 2022

President and GM of Consumer at Yahoo Joanna Lambert on adapting to a changing media landscape

This week we hear from President and GM of Consumer at Yahoo Joanna Lambert. She talks about the changes at Yahoo over the last few years and how Covid forced them...

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March 30, 2022

Lessons from award-winning podcasts: The Atlantic’s Vann Newkirk

The winner of the incredibly competitive Best Limited Series award in 2021's Publisher Podcast Awards was Floodlines from The Atlantic. Judges praised the captivating characters, richly textured...

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March 23, 2022

Lessons from award-winning podcasts: Immediate Media’s Ben Youatt

Immediate Media have featured numerous times on the shortlists and as winners of categories both for 2020 and 2021's Publisher Podcast Awards. Olive magazine podcast was the winner of 2021's Best...

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March 21, 2022

Headlines Network founder Hannah Storm on improving the mental health of people working in the media

In this week's episode we hear from Hannah Storm, founder and director of Headlines network, an organisation working to improve the mental health of people working...

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March 9, 2022

Lessons from award-winning podcasts: The Telegraph’s Theodora Louloudis

The winner of the Publisher Podcast Hero of the Year award in 2021's Publisher Podcast Awards was Theodora Louloudis, Head of Audio at The Telegraph. She was praised for the exceptional work...

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February 28, 2022

6AM City Co-Founder Ryan Heafy on creating a local newsletter launch playbook

In this week's episode we hear from founder of local newsletter network 6AM City Ryan Heafy. He tells us why the network is very close to having a million...

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February 21, 2022

Awallprintss Founder Abbianca Makoni on covering international communities for Gen Z

This week we hear from Abbianca Makoni, a 22-year old journalist who, after completing a four-year apprenticeship at the the Evening Standard, decided to go it...

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February 14, 2022

The Fix Founding Editor Jakub Parusinski on cracking the media management puzzle

On this week's episode we hear from Jakub Parusinski, founding editor at The Fix, a trade magazine for media professionals. He and Peter spoke about Jakub’s...

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February 7, 2022

Editor and Founder of Paranting Magazine Sophia Waterfield on creating a new type of lifestyle magazine

In this episode we hear from Sophia Waterfield, editor and founder of Paranting Magazine. It’s a magazine for parents, but for parents that don’t have time for some of the aspirational BS that...

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January 25, 2022

The Content Marketing Association MD Rob John on content marketing’s role in publishing

This week's guest is Rob John, MD of the Content Marketing Association. He discusses what the CMA does and who its members are, how content marketing might fit within a publisher's revenue mix,...

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