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...
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...
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...
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...
No, print magazines are not like vinyl
Vinyl is a quaint, but fundamentally flawed substrate for music. Print has never been a substandard magazine substrate. But that’s not the only way comparing print magazines with vinyl records...
Four big themes from the Magazine Street conference
The Grub Street Gang was at The International Magazine Centre's Magazine Street conference in Edinburgh earlier this month. Editorial director Joanna Cummings was there to put...
Grub Street’s Jo Cummings and Peter Houston: What kind of idiots still make magazines?
On this first episode of the final season for 2023, we feature a passion project from one of our own. The Grub Street Journal is a B2B title made by and for people who love print magazines. Its...
Why diversity, equity and inclusion is an everyone issue
It’s time diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives were subject to the same rigour as any other business...