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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 3, 2025

Metro’s Newsletter Editor Sophie Laughton on the future of publishers’ newsletters

In this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast, Metro.co.uk's Newsletter Editor Sophie Laughton takes us through... everything newsletter.

From how the Metro's redesign allowed the...

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February 24, 2025

Women’s Running’s Esther Newman on serving a range of audience needs

On this week’s episode of The Publisher Podcast we hear from Esther Newman, Senior Editor and Podcast Host at Women’s Running. Esther explains that a recent exercise to create a persona for...

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February 6, 2025

Media Briefs: Norkon’s Eirik Næsje and Birger Søiland on the power of live

Live content is a crucial tool for publishers for attracting and retaining readers, especially younger audiences used to finding real-time information from social media. Publishers have an...

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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 4, 2024

Saveur’s Kat Craddock on rebuilding a premium print presence on digital foundations

On this week’s episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we hear from Kat Craddock Editor-in-Chief, CEO and owner of Saveur magazine, a 30-year old...

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October 14, 2024

The Knowledge’s Jon Connell on why newsletters are aimed at mindsets, not demographics

On this week's episode of Media Voices, we hear from The Knowledge's founder Jon Connell. The Knowledge is a free-to-read newsletter aimed not at a particular demographic, but at a...

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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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July 22, 2024

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...

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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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April 2, 2024

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...

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March 25, 2024

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...

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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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February 19, 2024

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...

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November 13, 2023

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...

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July 3, 2023

Big Noises: Michelle Manafy on the media’s universal problems

Welcome to the latest season of Media Voices: Big Noises! This season, sponsored by Glide Publishing Platform, we’ll be talking to publishing people with something to say. Media Voices...

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March 20, 2023

Substack UK Head of Writer Partnerships Farrah Storr on why every magazine should embrace paid newsletters

This week we hear from Substack UK's Head of Writer Partnerships Farrah Storr. Over the past decade she's worked in leading editorial roles at some of the biggest lifestyle magazines in the UK...

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March 13, 2023

Semafor Media Reporter Max Tani on joining a global media start-up

On this week's 250th episode we hear from Max Tani, media reporter at news start-up Semafor. He tells us how he came to Semafor; the Venn diagram between media,...

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March 6, 2023

TIME Editor in Chief & Executive Chairman Edward Felsenthal on the secret to lasting 100 years

TIME was 100 last week, and we took the chance to speak to its Editor In Chief and Executive Chairman Edward Felsenthal about how the publication made it to its...

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February 6, 2023

Word in Black COO Andrew Ramsammy on the opportunities of news collaboratives

This week we hear from Andrew Ramsammy, Chief Operating Officer of Word in Black. The publication was founded in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, and brings together 10 of the nation's...

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January 30, 2023

Good Housekeeping Editor in Chief Gaby Huddart on using their centenary to be future-facing

This week we hear from Gaby Huddart, Group Editorial Director at Hearst UK and Editor in Chief of Good Housekeeping. We talk about celebrating the brand’s centenary last year with their first...

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January 23, 2023

Dexerto CEO Josh Nino on standing out in the crowded market of gaming publishers

On this week's episode, Dexerto CEO Josh Nino tells us about how the esports-focused publication went about carving a foothold in a competitive market that is often...

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October 24, 2022

Newsletters are finally growing up: how publisher email strategies evolved in 2022

For our latest season of the Media Voices Podcast, kindly sponsored by Poool, we’ll be publishing ten episodes exploring the biggest trends of 2022 and how they affect publishers; from...

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July 18, 2022

PPA CEO Sajeeda Merali on supporting publishers in a changing industry

This week we hear from Sajeeda Merali, CEO of the Professional Publishers Association (PPA). We talked about what her publishing background brings to the organisation,...

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June 6, 2022

Raconteur Editor Sarah Vizard on using print to drive digital expansion

This week we talk to Sarah Vizard, Editor of Raconteur. She explains what Raconteur's unique angle on business stories is in a crowded field, how it uses its print publication to drive digital...

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May 30, 2022

BehanBox Founder Bhanupriya Rao on telling the stories of women and gender diverse people in India

This episode we hear from Bhanupriya Rao, Founder of BehanBox, an Indian publication whose mission is to centre voices of women and gender diverse people through evidence and data-driven...

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May 23, 2022

Digital Director at Rolling Stone UK & Attitude Magazine Charlotte Cijffers on nurturing audiences online

This week we hear from Charlotte Cijffers, Digital Director at Rolling Stone UK & Attitude Magazine for Stream Publishing. We spoke about launching the iconic Rolling Stone title in the UK,...

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May 9, 2022

The Juggernaut Founder & CEO Snigdha Sur on bringing a business-first mindset to her startup

This week we spoke to Snigdha Sur, Founder & CEO of The Juggernaut; a content and community platform for global South Asians. She talked about founding a media...

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April 4, 2022

President and GM of Consumer at Yahoo Joanna Lambert on adapting to a changing media landscape

This week we hear from President and GM of Consumer at Yahoo Joanna Lambert. She talks about the changes at Yahoo over the last few years and how Covid forced them...

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