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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
TotallyEV’s Chris Minasians on building audience trust in product reviews
This week we hear from Chris Minasians, Director and Editor at TotallyEV, an independent site dedicated to articles, reviews and interviews about electric vehicles. TotallyEV has recently hit 5...
The Telegraph’s Maire Bonheim and David Alexander on newsletters for different business goals
This week we speak to The Telegraph’s Head of Newsletters Maire Bonheim, and Deputy Head of Newsletters David Alexander, about the publisher's newsletter portfolio. We talk about why The...
War correspondent Jane Ferguson on how tech is evolving conflict reporting
On this week's episode we hear from Jane Ferguson, an Irish-British journalist covering war, politics and US foreign policy. She is currently a special...
Immediate Media’s Ridhi Radia on making inclusion a strategic priority
This week we hear from Ridhi Radia, Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Immediate Media, about where media sits on the change spectrum for diversity and inclusion.
Ridhi tells us why...
JournalismAI’s Tshepo Tshabalala on practical AI use cases for small newsrooms
On this week's episode of Media Voices we hear from Tshepo Tshabalala, project manager & team lead at the LSE’s JournalismAI project. Rather than focusing on the negative coverage and...
Media Briefs: Democratising AI for publishers
For the 95% of publishers who haven't yet adopted AI, identifying a use case they can start with is usually the biggest roadblock. But the tools also need to be available for publishers to...
The Economist’s Nada Arnot on why publishers should be running more brand campaigns
On this week's episode of Media Voices we hear from The Economist's Executive Vice President of Marketing Nada Arnot. Marketing isn't something we talk about a lot on the podcast, but as Arnot...
The Quality Edit’s Lauren Kleinman and Lee Joselowitz on performance publishing
This week we hear from Lauren Kleinman and Lee Joselowitz, co-founders of The Quality Edit. The Quality Edit was founded in 2021 when Lauren, Lee and their co-founder Scott Silver felt there was...
The Paper’s Oliver Gabe and Owen Davies on print, community, and eating competitions
This week we hear from two of the three editors of The Paper, an intimidatingly-sized Welsh indie magazine. Oliver Gabe and Owen Davies take us through the annual publishing plan, why they...
Futureproofing local news: special podcast series
Few areas of publishing have been battered more strongly by the headwinds of digital media than local news. The conflict between scale and meaningful local coverage has meant businesses have...
Integrating AI into newsrooms: experiment, report, measure
In the second episode of this two-part series from Mx3 AI, a new pop-up conference we collaborated on with Media Makers Meet, we look at why, how and when publishers are integrating AI into their...
AI in the newsroom: Opportunities, regulation and risk
In this last episode of Media Voices in 2023 we take a big picture look at AI, based off our recent collaboration with Media Makers Meet on their Mx3 AI conference. We hear from experts from...
Project 23’s Elaine dela Cruz on creating DE&I programmes in media
On this week's episode of the podcast Elaine dela Cruz, co-founder of DE&I consultancy firm Project 23, tells us about what is creating positive change for diversity and inclusion in the...
The Addition’s Charlotte Henry on changing TV consumption habits
On this week’s podcast (which is also this week’s edition of The Addition) we hear from author, journalist and broadcaster Charlotte Henry. She creates and runs...
Reuters Institute’s Dr Amy Ross Arguedas on studying trust
This week, to help us dissect the year in trust, we're joined by Dr Amy Ross Arguedas, a Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Between 2020 and...
Newsrewired special with Journalism.co.uk: leadership, AI and business models
What’s top of mind for today’s news leaders? Evolving at pace, finding your USP - but not burning out in the process.
Last week, we were at...
WalesOnline’s Jillian MacMath on transforming a portfolio of newsletters
This week we hear from Jillian MacMath, Audience Editor at WalesOnline. She was chosen by the judges as the winner of the first ever Hero of the Year at the Publisher Newsletter Awards, so what...
Media Briefs: Yes, you can use Apple News to build first-party data
No, Apple doesn't share reader data directly. But there are some clear pathways for publishers to leverage and drive first-party data capture in the app.
In a change from our...
Motor Sport Magazine’s Zamir Walimohamed on making subscriptions work
On this week’s episode of the podcast we take a deep dive into the subscription trends of the past year. To get insight from someone who’s had experience in subscription management, we spoke...
LADbible Group’s Jake Strong-Jones on the best use of social platforms
In this week's episode we hear from LADbible Group's Operations Lead Jake Strong-Jones on how the group's verticals make best use of social platforms. He works with teams across the business on...
MyLocal’s Daniel Ionescu on platforms for sustainable local news
This week we're joined by Daniel Ionescu, founder of The Lincolnite, an independent local news publisher in Lincolnshire. He is also the founder and editor of new local news platform MyLocal,...