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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 8, 2022

Media Voices at FIPP Congress 2022: Rebuilding from Covid

Media Voices co-host Peter Houston has jetted off to Cascais, Portugal for the 2022 FIPP World Media Congress. He catches up with speakers and attendees at the event to find out what they're...

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January 10, 2022

Strong advertising recovery sees subscription-only publishers reconsider ‘all ads are bad’ mantra

With the ad market roaring back after the pandemic, advertising's reputation has been somewhat rehabilitated as part of the revenue mix. But platform domination continues to limit growth....

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October 18, 2021

Transcript: Duncan Tickell, Chief Revenue Officer, Immediate Media

Esther Kezia-Thorpe

Esther Kezia Thorpe: How did the role of Chief Revenue Officer come about last year?

Duncan Tickell: First and foremost, it...

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July 19, 2021

Transcript: Aaron Asadi, Chief Audience & Ecommerce Officer, Future

Interviewer: Peter Houston

Peter Houston: How did you come to be in this role at Future?

Aaron Asadi: So I joined Future in the back end of...

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July 7, 2021

Transcript: Chris Duncan, CEO, Bauer

Interviewer: Esther Kezia Thorpe

Esther Kezia Thorpe: What was it like joining and having to steer the company just as lockdown hit?

Chris...

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July 5, 2021

Bauer CEO Chris Duncan on leading a magazine business through lockdown

This week, we hear from Chris Duncan, CEO of UK Publishing at Bauer Media Group. He joined the company just a few weeks after last year's lockdown, so he talks about what it's been like leading...

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May 11, 2021

Transcript: Erin McCarthy, Editor in Chief, Mental Floss

Interviewer: Peter Houston

Peter Houston: So what is Mental Floss?

Erin McCarthy: Mental Floss is an online destination for curious people at...

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May 11, 2021

“The audience growth has been too good to let it go away”: How the Wall Street Journal is adapting its live journalism in a virtual age

One of the Wall Street Journal’s newer projects is the Live Journalism team; a group of journalists who build agendas and source guests for the publisher’s...

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May 10, 2021

Mental Floss Editor in Chief Erin McCarthy on the title’s 20-year mission to make readers smarter

This week Mental Floss Editor in Chief Erin McCarthy tells us about how it's celebrating its 20th anniversary, how the magazine started in a university dorm room, its mission to help people feel...

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April 22, 2021

Transcript: Kim Last, Editor of Live Journalism, Wall Street Journal

Interviewer: Esther Kezia Thorpe

Esther Kezia Thorpe: What is live journalism?

Kim Last: Live journalism at The Wall Street Journal is exactly...

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April 19, 2021

WSJ Editor of Live Journalism Kim Last on virtual events as a live magazine

This week, we hear from The Wall Street Journal's Editor of Live Journalism and Special Content Kim Last. She talks about the role of live journalism at the publication, how they adapted when the...

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March 22, 2021

Shado co-founder Hannah Robathan on the magazine as an outlet for activism

This week Hannah Robathan, co-founder of Shado, tell us about the realities of publishing a print magazine and online platform that gives people the space to tell their own stories. We spoke about...

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March 15, 2021

Transcript: Paul Cheal, CEO, Big Issue

Interviewer: Peter Houston

Peter Houston: How did you start out in media?

Paul Cheal: My story in media started after I came out of university....

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March 15, 2021

Big Issue CEO Paul Cheal on the magazine’s fight to survive lockdown

On this week's episode The Big Issue CEO Paul Cheal tells us about the magazine’s fight to survive lockdown, the innovations that got it through and how those changes have spurred new ways of...

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March 10, 2021

Transcript: James Stables, Founder and Co-CEO, Wareable.com

Interviewer: Peter Houston

Peter Houston: How did your sites get started?

James Stables: The founder of sites like Hot UK Deals and Quidco...

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February 1, 2021

Mr. Magazine Samir Husni on why magazines are new media

This week Dr Samir Husni, founder and director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi’s School of Journalism and New Media, tells us why magazines are the ultimate...

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January 25, 2021

Transcript: Reta Lee, Editor in Chief for Southeast Asia, Yahoo Lifestyle

Interviewer: Esther Kezia Thorpe

Esther Kezia Thorpe: How did you get started in journalism?

Reta Lee: Like many other...

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January 20, 2021

Pugpig’s Jonny Kaldor discusses the state of the digital publishing market

Last year, the team at Pugpig decided to take a step back from their day-to-day development work and get a sense of what was going on in the wider digital publishing market. Analysing data from...

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January 14, 2021

Opportunities for publishers in 2021: a moment to reflect and reset on long-held strategies and beliefs

The swerves publishers take in 2021 are likely to be much sharper than we can predict. But despite the many challenges on the horizon, there’s reason for hope. Chris Sutcliffe rounds up...

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January 5, 2021

Sink or swim for events strategies as the ‘pivot to virtual’ divides publishers into two camps

Covid-19 decimated events revenues overnight, but many have taken the opportunity to innovate. As publishers look towards an uncertain future, we can be sure that the events industry will...

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December 22, 2020

The enemy of my enemy: Trust in the media has had a rollercoaster ride of a year

Fewer people than ever trust the national titles - but the pandemic has also provided newspapers with an opportunity to prove they’re on the public’s side. Chris...

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December 8, 2020

There may be silver linings, but print’s long-term future still looks distinctly cloudy

Certain corners of the print market have had a better pandemic than anyone would have predicted, but for every story of screen-weary readers picking up a print subscription, there’s at...

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September 14, 2020

MEL magazine Editor in Chief Josh Schollmeyer on changing the conversation around men’s magazines

This episode Josh Schollmeyer, co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief of online men’s magazine MEL, takes us through working at the legacy print behemoth Playboy, why that convinced him men’s...

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July 31, 2020

How The Conversation is turning 100 million pageviews into trust in experts

Many publishers have enjoyed traffic spikes over the past few months, from news publishers covering the developing crisis to hobby and special interest sites providing entertainment and light...

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July 27, 2020

The Conversation UK’s Chief Executive Chris Waiting on building community around expertise

This week Chris Waiting, chief executive of The Conversation UK, tells us about the lessons his team is taking forward from its record-breaking corona coverage, why newsletters and live events are...

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July 20, 2020

Parents.com Executive Editor Julia Dennison on creating content to support families

This week, we hear from Julia Dennison, the Executive Editor of Meredith's parenting brand Parents.com. She talks about how they're supporting parents who are trying to juggle childcare and their...

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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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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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