One year ago, The Economist took a leap of faith and moved all their podcasts (bar one) behind a paywall. It’s paid off, with the publisher saying they have retained 80% of listeners....
Transcript: Jasper Wang, VP of Revenue & Operations, Defector
Interviewer: Chris Sutcliffe
Chris Sutcliffe: What is Defector?
Jasper Wang: So Defector is a sports blog and media company. We launched in...
Transcript: Chris Maillard, Editor-in-Chief, Decanter
Interviewer: Peter Houston
Peter Houston: So tell me about your illustrious career in magazines.
Chris Maillard: Yes, my illustrious career in...
Transcript: Robbie Kellman Baxter, Author, The Membership Economy
Interviewer: Peter Houston
Peter Houston: What's your career been like so far?
Robbie Kellman Baxter: I've been focused on...
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...
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...
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...
Big Issue founder Lord Bird on Chapter Catcher magazine’s mission to start a reading revolution
This week, Big Issue founder Lord John Bird talks to us about his new magazine venture Chapter Catcher, its mission to spark a reading revolution, and how it was inspired by Brexit. He also...
Chelsea Magazine Company digital director Paul Rayner on profitable operating models
This week, we hear from veteran of the magazine industry Paul Rayner about his career trajectory from Dennis to LadBible to the Chelsea Magazine Company, from launching magazines to franchise...
WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson on lessons from a year behind a paywall
On this week's episode of Media Voices, WIRED's Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson talks about the brand's positioning as a tech magazine in a digital world, the impact of two huge Facebook...
Why micropayments aren’t dead…yet
Far from being a failed experiment, Esther Kezia Thorpe argues that we need to think bigger when it comes to micropayments, for What's New in Publishing.
With the rise of...
The Times and Sunday Times’ Alan Hunter on achieving a major digital subscription milestone
This week, Esther talks to the The Times and Sunday Times' Head of Digital Alan Hunter about how they met their milestone of 500,000 digital subscribers, why their paywall persistence has paid...
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...
Paywall Special
In this bumper episode, the team discusses the rise of the paywall. As everyone from Vanity Fair to the New Statesman have decided to launch paywalls, we try to determine whether there is a recipe...
PressPad founder Olivia Crellin on the need for diversity in journalism
In this week's episode of Media Voices, PressPad founder and BBC journalist Olivia Crellin explains how PressPad aims to diversify the media by removing one of the main financial obstacles to...
New Scientist’s head of data science Kimberly Karman on paywalls and GDPR
On this 50th episode of Media Voices, we hear from New Scientist’s head of data science Kimberly Karman about the practical application of data science to a business, how to tackle GDPR and how...
The Financial Times’ Alyssa Zeisler on using engagement metrics to launch new products
In this week's episode, the Financial Times' audience engagement strategist Alyssa Zeisler takes us through how the team uses engagement metrics to identify a need for new products that benefit...