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April 17, 2025

Building recurring revenue and audience connections: in conversation with Memberful’s Jen Matichuk

In this bonus episode of The Publisher Podcast, sponsored by Memberful, we hear from Jen Matichuk, Strategic Partnerships Manager at Memberful.

Jen spoke about how membership is a powerful way...

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March 31, 2025

Immediate Media’s Alex White on giving staff the space to innovate

On this week’s episode of The Publisher podcast we hear from Alex White, Group Managing Director for Immediate Media’s Knowledge portfolio which includes...

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March 10, 2025

Zetland’s Tav Klitgaard on designing news products that younger people will pay for

This week on The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we're joined by Tav Klitgaard, Group CEO of Zetland Media. As well as news publication Zetland, the Danish company also has a book publishing...

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February 10, 2025

Press Gazette’s Richard Jamieson on monetising a 60-year-old B2B brand

This week on The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we're joined by Press Gazette's Chief Commercial Officer Richard Jamieson. He takes us for a behind-the-scenes look at how the industry...

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February 3, 2025

Hearst’s Katie Vanneck Smith on making magazine memberships successful

This week on The Publisher Podcast we speak to Katie Vanneck Smith, CEO at Hearst UK. Katie's career spans The Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph, as well as co-founding Tortoise. In...

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January 20, 2025

1440’s Tim Huelskamp on finding white space for a newsletter-based media business

This week on The Publisher Podcast we hear from Tim Huelskamp, CEO and co-founder of 1440, a daily curated newsletter that now reaches over 4 million daily readers. He tells us about finding white...

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January 13, 2025

Wessenden Marketing’s Jim Bilton on publisher product priorities for 2025 and beyond

We're kicking off 2025's first season of The Publisher Podcast by talking to Jim Bilton, Managing Director at Wessenden Marketing and Brandlab Research. Jim produces bimonthly research and updates...

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December 2, 2024

Pod in a Pub: Publishing’s pivotal moments this year, and predictions for 2025

This episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices - our last for this season - was recorded at the White Swan in Aldgate, London on November 27th in front of a live...

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November 25, 2024

Dow Jones’ Emma O’Brian on the backroom magic behind a specialised portfolio

In this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast, we hear from Emma O’Brian, SVP Strategy for Dow Jones. Everyone knows Dow Jones – or at least a few parts of its portfolio, even if they...

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November 18, 2024

Will Hayward on relaunching a successful solo newsletter

This week on The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we're joined by Will Hayward, journalist, author and columnist specialising in Welsh politics. He also writes The Will Hayward Newsletter, which...

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November 14, 2024

Media Briefs: BlueConic’s Patrick Crane on managing data strategies in times of constant transformation

Third-party cookies aren't going away any time soon, but many publishers have already reduced dependency on them as a revenue stream. As the landscape continues to shift, what should...

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November 11, 2024

Total Politics’ Ludovica D’Angelo on the primacy of product in a shifting media landscape

This week on The Publisher Podcast, as part of the product-oriented remit we’ve set ourselves for the series, we hear from Ludovica D’Angelo, Director of Publishing Operations for the Total...

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October 28, 2024

Farmers Weekly’s Daniel Smith on creating and monetising a podcast for farmers

On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we hear from Daniel Smith, Managing Director of the Mark Allen Group's Agriculture division, which includes brands like Farmers...

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October 21, 2024

Torstar Corporation’s Brandon Grosvenor on early micropayment experiments

On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we speak to Brandon Grosvenor, Chief Revenue Officer at Torstar Corporation, home of The Toronto Star. Over the summer, The Toronto...

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October 7, 2024

The Economist’s John Shields on growing subscriber-only podcasts

On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we speak to John Shields, Director of Podcasts at The Economist. They made the bold move last year to put almost all their podcasts...

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September 30, 2024

Morningcrunch’s Paul Ostwald on growing and monetising a German-language daily newsletter

On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we hear from Paul Ostwald, co-founder of Morningcrunch, a German-language media brand aimed at young professionals. Since launching...

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September 23, 2024

The Baltimore Banner’s Eric Ulken on the value of an app to a local news start-up

On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we speak to Eric Ulken, Vice President of Product at The Baltimore Banner. The Baltimore Banner is a nonprofit news organisation...

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September 16, 2024

Greater Govanhill’s Rhiannon J Davies on the power of print to connect communities

On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we hear from Rhiannon J Davies, Founder and Editor at Greater Govanhill, a community magazine and media project.

Launched in...

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September 9, 2024

The Evening Standard’s Simon Kurs on an award-winning commercial podcast strategy

On this week's episode - the first of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices - we speak to Simon Kurs, Commercial Editor at the Evening Standard.

The publisher won Best Commercial Strategy at...

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April 29, 2024

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...

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April 24, 2024

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...

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April 22, 2024

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...

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April 8, 2024

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...

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February 26, 2024

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...

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November 21, 2023

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...

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October 23, 2023

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,...

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October 16, 2023

The New Statesman’s Chris Stone on podcast and platform experiments

This week we're joined by Chris Stone, Executive Producer at the New Statesman. Chris is in charge of the podcast and video strategy at the publication, and his experimental approach has seen...

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October 2, 2023

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...

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April 12, 2023

Practical AI Podcast Special: Lessons from local media

Our special Practical AI podcast documentary explores how local media organisations have got started with AI projects, the benefits they're seeing, the challenges they've faced and what...

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February 27, 2023

Trusted Media Brands CEO Bonnie Kintzer on future-proofing a legacy publisher

This week we hear from Bonnie Kintzer, CEO of Trusted Media Brands - which includes brands like FailArmy, Family Handyman, and Reader’s Digest. She tells us about...

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