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July 6, 2020

Anorak Magazine’s Cathy Olmedillas on making magazines collectible

On this 150th episode of Media Voices, Cathy Olmedillas, founder of independent children’s magazines Anorak and Dot, explains how she learned about the collectability of magazines from her time...

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June 29, 2020

Strong Words’ Ed Needham on his corporate past and solo future

This week Ed Needham, founder, editor and sole staffer of book review magazine Strong Words, explains how tech is enabling him to do what he does, and how digital makes it a challenge to capture...

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June 22, 2020

Wessenden Marketing’s Jim Bilton on how the pandemic has impacted newspaper and magazine retail

This week we talk to Jim Bilton of Wessenden Marketing, who does research around media supply chains. He tells us about how the pandemic has impacted newspaper and magazine retail, about who might...

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June 15, 2020

LA Times Audience Engagement Editor Adriana Lacy on using archival content to contextualise current events

This week, we hear from Adriana Lacy, Audience Engagement Editor at the LA Times. She launched a dedicated Instagram account for the LA Times' archival photos late last year, so we talked about...

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June 8, 2020

WSJ Newsroom Innovation Chief Robin Kwong on developing features for a news brand

This week, we talk to the Wall Street Journal's Newsroom Innovation Chief Robin Kwong. He talks about how his team develops features to help the WSJ's wider goals, how he helps facilitate...

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June 1, 2020

The NCTJ’s Head of Partnerships and Projects Will Gore on local news and journalism training

This week Will Gore, Head of Partnerships and Projects at the National Council for the Training of Journalists, tells us about the NCTJ’s role in the Facebook-backed Community News Project which...

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May 25, 2020

Stylist Group CEO Ella Dolphin on transforming the free print magazine to digital subscriptions

This week, we spoke to Ella Dolphin, CEO of the Stylist Group. She talked about the acceleration of the title's plans to adopt a reader revenue model as the free print magazine distribution was...

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May 18, 2020

Financial Times Senior Data-Visualisation Journalist John Burn-Murdoch on visualising complex coronavirus data

This week we spoke to John Burn-Murdoch, a Senior Data-Visualisation Journalist for the Financial Times who has been at the forefront of their famous coronavirus trajectory trackers. He talked...

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May 11, 2020

Flashes and Flames founder Colin Morrison on surviving digital transformation and the pandemic

This week Colin Morrison, founder of renowned industry blog Flashes & Flames, takes us through his path into the industry and his work heading up some of the biggest magazine publishers in...

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May 4, 2020

The Atlantic International Editor Prashant Rao on bringing the publication to a global audience

This week we spoke to The Atlantic's International Editor Prashant Rao about taking The Atlantic's voice to an international audience, the importance of diversity in writing stories for that...

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April 14, 2020

Media Voices Live: Publishing in a Pandemic

Stories of the people and publishers innovating in a time of crisis

The media industry has had a turbulent decade when it...

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April 6, 2020

Laptop Mag Editor in Chief Sherri L. Smith on evolving a consumer tech title

This week, we hear from Sherri Smith, Editor in Chief of Laptop Mag, one of Future plc’s tech titles. She talks about her role working across Future’s sister titles, why Laptop Mag is...

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March 30, 2020

The Telegraph Podcast Editor Theodora Louloudis on podcasting’s role in growing subscriptions

This week we hear from Theodora Louloudis, Podcast Editor for the Telegraph. With a growing podcast portfolio, we spoke about her job in an expanding team, growth in the Telegraph’s podcast...

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March 23, 2020

POLITICO UK Executive Editor Kate Day on the publisher’s expansion in the UK

This week Kate Day, Executive Editor of POLITICO in the UK takes us through the publishers' expansion into and growth in the UK market. She discusses everything from the advantages of being a...

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March 16, 2020

PPA Managing Director Owen Meredith on a successful #AxeTheReadingTax campaign

This week, Owen Meredith, Managing Director at the Professional Publisher's Association, talks to us about how the lobbying work the association has done on behalf of UK publishers to axe VAT on...

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March 9, 2020

Singletrack Magazine Publisher Mark Alker on reader revenues vs programmatic advertising

This week, we talk to Mark Alker, Publisher of Singletrackworld.com; Europe's biggest mountain biking website, and Singletrack Magazine; a bi-monthly print publication. As well as divulging the...

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March 2, 2020

The 19th co-founder Amanda Zamora on launching a news brand about women and politics

This week, Amanda Zamora talks to us about the launch of new news site The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, and policy. She talks about...

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February 24, 2020

Future plc Brand Director of Home Interest Paul Newman on multichannel publishing strategies

This week, we talk to Paul Newman, Brand Director of Future plc's Home Interest brands. We discuss how home titles have evolved in the age of Pinterest, how Future have managed to increase print...

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February 17, 2020

Mash Media Portfolio Director Duncan Siegle on the synergy between magazines and events

This week we hear from Duncan Siegle, Portfolio Director at Mash Media. The 25-year-old B2B company publishes magazines and runs events for event organisers, and is just about to launch Making...

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February 10, 2020

Digital editor of In The Moment magazine Sarah Orme on the emerging market of mindfulness

This week Sarah Orme, digital editor of Immediate Media's In The Moment magazine explains how the magazine has grown with the rising interest in mindfulness, its position as a women’s lifestyle...

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