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...
How Hamburger Morgenpost has embraced AI and digital technologies to re-engineer their business model: in conversation with Purple
Digital transformation is not a one-and-done process, as anyone who has ever worked in the publishing industry can attest. For Hamburger Morgenpost the digital journey has been made in a series of...
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...
How broadcaster SPORT1 uses AI and automation to maximise social media impact: in conversation with Echobox
This summer sees a packed sports calendar with the Euros in Germany and the Olympics and Paralympics in France. Adding these global events to the regular sports...
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...
Media Briefs: How live blogging adds an audience-first dimension to election coverage
Time magazine has called 2024 the ultimate election year, with people going to the polls from India to the UK and America. Rolling election coverage gives publishers the opportunity to...
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...
Preview: The Publisher Podcast & Newsletter Summit 2024
While the podcast is on a break we've been hard at work assembling the industry's best and brightest publishers to share the strategies and learnings behind their successful podcasts and...
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...
The Atlantic’s Nicholas Thompson on milestones, paywalls, and setting future goals
In this bonus episode of Media Voices, we hear from Nicholas Thompson, CEO at The Atlantic. We first had Nicholas as a guest on the podcast back in 2019 when he was WIRED's Editor in Chief, about...
Media Briefs: AI means you don’t need to give up on SMB display ads
Publishers have been having a tough time with display advertising and focusing on key accounts makes sense. But there is huge revenue potential in the small and medium sized businesses...
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...
Podnews’ James Cridland on running a profitable newsletter-first publication
On this week's episode - the last of the season - we hear from James Cridland, Podnews editor and radio futurologist. Podnews is a daily email newsletter about everything podcasting, and is one of...
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...
The Wall Street Journal’s Edward Hyatt on the changing SEO landscape
On this week's episode Edward Hyatt, Director of Newsroom SEO at The Wall Street Journal takes us through staying abreast and ahead of changes to the SEO landscape. From personal experience he...