The Knowledge is a daily digest newsletter founded in 2021. Since then, its readership has grown to over "140,000 happy readers", who appreciate its format and content. But it took a while...
7 lessons from a year of paywalled podcasts at The Economist
One year ago, The Economist took a leap of faith and moved all their podcasts (bar one) behind a paywall. It’s paid off, with the publisher saying they have retained 80% of listeners....
How German-language newsletter start-up Morningcrunch built an audience of 50,000 young professionals in just 12 months
If you were planning a daily news publication to target younger audiences, your starting point might be TikTok or WhatsApp. But after just 12 months, 50,000 young professionals in Germany...
How start-up local newspaper The Baltimore Banner uses an app as a statement of intent
The Baltimore Banner launched in June 2022, with a mission to fill a gap in local news reporting in Maryland. Funded by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the non-profit...
Why a robust, publishing-focused CMS should be the backbone of your digital publishing strategy
This feature has been written in partnership with Purple. Hear more in our Media Briefs episode with senior digital consultant John Rahim, discussing how a reliable content management...
Why a solutions-focused community magazine launched a podcast that creates individual connections
Greater Govanhill magazine set out with a mission to help solve the problems of a Glasgow neighbourhood. Its starting point was to listen to the concerns of its residents, but with its...
Why the Evening Standard put the podcast at the heart of its sustainable travel campaign
The conversation around podcast revenue can, too often, focus on just the podcast itself. But podcasts can be a powerful tool as part of - or even at the heart of - a wider commercial campaign....
What can we learn from award-winning newsletters?
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...