Joanna Cummings rounds up the advice and words of wisdom shared by some of our Publisher Newsletter Award-winners at our recent Publisher Newsletter Summit.
Newsletters have...
Honesty is the only policy: why we need to tell the world magazines have changed
Media Voices co-founder Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries: how to make print magazines work in the digital world, a companion newsletter to print...
Passion plays: The biggest lesson magazine makers can learn from music makers
Media Voices co-founder Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries: how to make print magazines work in the digital world, a companion newsletter to print...
The Tortured Analogy Department
Media Voices co-founder Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries: how to make print magazines work in the digital world, a companion newsletter to print...
Introducing BlueConic as our relaunch sponsor
Following our decision to reposition as a weekly publication profiling the people and products that are powering publishing's future, we at Media Voices are delighted to be able to welcome...
Why print won’t lie down and die
Media Voices co-founder Peter Houston sends out a weekly newsletter called The Magazine Diaries, a companion newsletter to print magazine The Grub Street Journal. Each edition shares...
Lessons from the creator economy: allowing talent to operate like creators
The Addition's Charlotte Henry looks at some examples of creators who have been lured back to publications, and how publishers can reap the rewards of allowing their talented staff to lead...
Introducing the winners of The Publisher Newsletter Awards 2024
Media Voices are delighted to reveal the winners of 2024's Publisher Newsletter Awards, following a ceremony which took place on Tuesday 23rd July at The Union Regents,...
5 podcast and newsletter lessons from leading publishers, with journalism.co.uk
Newsletters and podcasts have a lot in common. As well as being low-cost, they can be intimate and personal; perfect for building lasting relationships with readers and...
Introducing The Publisher Portfolio: the next phase of Media Voices
TLDR: Media Voices is repositioning as a weekly publication profiling the people and products that are powering publishing’s future.
2024 has...
6 tips for media leaders on implementing AI
Whether you see AI as friend or foe to the media industry, there are numerous ways automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence tools can be used by publishers to improve the...
What this year’s Publisher Podcast Awards finalists show about podcasting in 2024
In the five years we’ve been running the Publisher Podcast Awards, a great deal has changed in the industry. Publishers have become a great deal more confident at...
Lessons from the creator economy: Setting the tone in podcasts and newsletters
Charlotte Henry has been out and about at industry events the past few weeks. Here, she explains why publishers across the board are struggling to find the balance between...
5 things we learned about the state of podcasts from the Digital News Report 2024
June is marked every year by the release of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s Digital News Report. The report this year tells a story of news media increasingly challenged by...
Introducing the winners of 2024’s Publisher Podcast Awards
Media Voices are delighted to reveal the winners of 2024’s Publisher Podcast Awards, following a ceremony which took place on Wednesday 12th June at Salsa Temple in London.
The awards are a...
Welcome to CascAIs
I’m at The FIPP World Media Congress in Portugal… I know, I know. It’s a tough gig, but someone has to do it.
This...
Shortlist announcement for the Publisher Newsletter Awards 2024
Media Voices are proud to reveal the shortlist for the second year of the Publisher Newsletter Awards. More than 100 newsletters have made the cut across 16 categories, from global news...
Why the podcast industry cannot abandon its search for a new, diverse galaxy of stars
Our industry is overdue for its next breakout star – so why are there none on the horizon?
Podcasts live or die on the ability of their hosts to keep audiences...
Smartico’s Christian Scherbel on reframing digital advertising for SMBs and publishers
This feature has been written in partnership with Smartico. Hear more in the Media Briefs episode with its CEO Christian Scherbel, discussing why small- and medium-sized businesses joining...
Podcasts and newsletters: 5 similarities and 1 huge difference
Podcasts and newsletters share the same low cost of entry; all it takes is a phone or a computer and you’re in the game. But that’s just the beginning. Both formats offer publishers...
Lessons from the creator economy: how creators are avoiding VC funding pitfalls
Creators are looking to diversify their revenue streams and, just as media companies do, occasionally seek the aid of VC funding to do so. But with VC funding comes a variety of pitfalls,...
First sessions and workshops revealed for the Publisher Podcast and Newsletter Summits
Are you a publisher with newsletters or podcasts? Then you absolutely must have Wednesday June 12th in your diary.
We're assembling some of the industry's leading publishers...
“The risk of losing people in the newsletter world has declined:” What happened to The Atlantic’s newsletters for subscribers scheme
The pandemic years saw a number of high-profile journalists leave publications to launch their own newsletters. Although lockdowns were credited as a driving...
Where will the leaders and readers of the future come from?
Magazine publishing might not be for the fainthearted, and the idea of selling it as a career demands a headshift. But we need to accentuate the positives if we’re going to attract young...
Lessons from the creator economy: Sophia Smith Galer on thinking outside the media box
Award-winning freelance reporter, author and creator Sophia Smith Galer makes her own content, writes books and successfully collaborates with existing media institutions. Here, she tells...
Shortlist announcement for the Publisher Podcast Awards 2024
Media Voices are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the fifth year of the Publisher Podcast Awards. From hundreds of entries, this shortlist of 140 represents the very best in publisher...
How The Telegraph is harnessing newsletters for community development and retention
“If people become a subscriber to The Telegraph after clicking on a link in a newsletter, they’re 50% more likely to still be a subscriber a year later,” Head of Newsletters Maire Boneheim...
5 years of pain ahead for the industry: Why publishing needs to go old-school to survive AI threats
“What’s your competitive advantage as a publishing business? It’s not the ability to churn out more articles than anybody else,” says Ian Betteridge, as he reckons publishers have...
Digital’s hidden carbon footprint
Print gets a bad rap, but digital media is no angel when it comes to the climate crisis. Magazine publishers need to consider the environmental impact of all that they do, writes Peter...
Bridged Media’s Maanas Mediratta on opening up access to AI for publishers
This feature has been written in partnership with Bridged Media. Hear more in the Media Briefs episode with Bridged Media CEO Maanas Mediratta, discussing why making AI tools more...