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March 4, 2025

How dismantling silos gave Metro’s newsletter team room to experiment

Metro.co.uk’s Newsletter Editor Sophie Laughton explains how the freesheet’s newsletters went from free-for-all to a structured, sophisticated newsletter production...

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September 24, 2024

How start-up local newspaper The Baltimore Banner uses an app as a statement of intent

The Baltimore Banner launched in June 2022, with a mission to fill a gap in local news reporting in Maryland. Funded by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the  non-profit...

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August 3, 2022

A tale of three publishers: UK daily news brands eye a more stable future

After decades of disruption and painful digital transformation, the UK’s ‘quality’ daily news publishers - once called broadsheets - seem to have finally...

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December 17, 2021

2021 in print: decline continues for newspapers, but it’s more complicated for magazines

While most people have lost the habit of buying a daily newspaper, preferring the immediacy of digital news, sales in the lean-back magazine market have been holding up...mostly. Peter Houston...

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October 3, 2021

Transcript: David Floyd, Managing Director, Social Spider

Peter Houston

Peter Houston: So how did you get into local news?

David Floyd: I suppose I'm somewhat unusual in terms of my...

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September 23, 2021

“The demand is definitely there”: How Social Spider is making local news commercially viable

Local news is under more pressure than ever. But as Covid has demonstrated, having local sources of information is vital both for keeping communities connected and...

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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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May 13, 2019

CEO of Associated Media Publishing Julia Raphaely on the mission of magazines

This week Julia Raphaely, CEO of Associated Media Publishing, takes us through how magazines can act as storefronts, the differences between the SA and UK magazine markets, why people are...

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October 1, 2018

DC Thomson’s Sally Hampton on why magazines have a bright future

This week, Sally Hampton, Consumer Magazines Publisher at DC Thomson talks about how she manages such a wide range of magazines, the biggest shifts she's seen in print publishing, and a surprising...

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September 17, 2018

Lucy Kueng on how Silicon Valley has changed journalism

This episode, we hear from Lucy Kueng. She’s one of the go-to names for macro and micro industry analysis, a Google Digital News Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of...

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July 9, 2018

Corinne Podger on mobile journalism and digital storytelling

This week, Corinne Podger takes us through best practice in mobile journalism and digital storytelling, and how varying mobile consumption habits affect the journalism in different...

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July 2, 2018

The New Statesman’s digital editor Jasper Jackson on paywall strategy

In this week's episode we hear from the New Statesman's digital editor Jasper Jackson about the circumstances that led the popular current affairs magazine to launch a paywall, how the team...

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January 7, 2018

Media’s hopes and dreams for 2018

It's safe to say that 2017 was a bit of a bumpy year for media organisations. From mass job cuts, ill-advised pivots and a growing outcry against the burgeoning duopoly, there's no sign of the...

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November 27, 2017

Journalism lecturer Adam Tinworth on the tragedy of platform dependency

This week, visiting lecturer in digital journalism at City University Adam Tinworth takes us through the history of platform dependence. We look at the rise of the intermediary, the tragic loss of...

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