Media Voices Podcast
332 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMedia Voices is a weekly look at all the news and views from across the media world, featuring leading figures from media and publishing businesses. The team behind the podcast take a common sense approach to media analysis, from the practices of journalism to deep dives into publisher business models.
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Editor and Founder of Paranting Magazine Sophia Waterfield on creating a new type of lifestyle magazine
February 07, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBIn this episode we hear from Sophia Waterfield, editor and founder of Paranting Magazine. It’s a magazine for parents, but for parents that don’t have time for some of the aspirational BS that a lot of lifestyle magazines cover. We spoke about the name, funding a start-up with the aim of actually paying freelancers - oh, and accents. In the news roundup the team discuss the collateral damage of the New York Times' success, a busy week for News Corp, and Facebook's first ever loss of active ...
The Ferret’s fact-checking lead Alastair Brian on truth, the media, and trust
January 31, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes - 76.8 MBThis week's guest is Alastair Brian, fact-checking lead at The Ferret. He spoke about out the realities of modern fact-checking (it’s like Sisyphus on steroids), how to win over new readers who don’t have a pre-existing trusted relationship, and how community is at the heart of any sustainable revenue stream In the news roundup the team discusses the battle for Spotify's soul, Google's latest plan to replace the third-party cookie, a Tortoise, and local newspaper group Archant being back up...
MD of the Content Marketing Association Rob John on content marketing’s role in publishing
January 25, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutes - 73.6 MBThis week’s guest is Rob John, MD of the Content Marketing Association. He discusses what the CMA does and who its members are, how content marketing might fit within a publisher’s revenue mix, and the panel they’re running at The Publishing Show in London in March. In the news roundup the team discusses the realities and unrealities of the metaverse for publishers, German publishers' latest attempt to curtail Google's powers, and paid subscriptions for creators on TikTok and Instagram.
The start-ups saving local news in the U.S.
January 17, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 80.2 MBThe narrative that local news is dead is widely accepted in the media industry. The rise of digital advertising has cut off local news organisation's main source of revenue, leading to decades of cuts and managed decline at once-lucrative publications who have struggled to adapt. But over the last few years, there have been glimmers of hope. Although there are still vast news deserts with no coverage, start-ups are springing up to fill gaps in some areas. Publications like Axios get a lot o...
The Big Issue UK Editor Paul McNamee on making every aspect of the magazine necessary
December 13, 2021 07:00 - 49 minutes - 90.2 MBThis week UK Editor of The Big Issue Paul McNamee tells us about the Big Issue’s Breakthrough scheme, paying disadvantaged young people to get into journalism. He also talks about why the magazine needed a redesign to make everything important and necessary, working with designer Matt Willey, their relationship with subscribers, digital-first news and balancing campaigning with making a properly entertaining magazine. Ahead of the interview the team discuss their outrageous predictions for ...
Special: Highlights from Media Moments 2021
December 06, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutes - 106 MBThis special episode of Media Voices includes the audio of our launch presentation for the Media Moments 2021 report. Chris, Peter and Esther each outline which media moment of the year they found interesting, before being joined by an expert panel of media analysts to dissect the year. The team are then joined by The Rebooting's Brian Morrissey, Press Gazette's Charlotte Tobitt, The Reuters Institute's Professor Lucy Kueng, and Sovrn's Dominic Perkins. The panel talks about some of the key...
Executive Editor of Noema magazine Kathleen Miles on publishing in an intellectual niche
November 29, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 70.9 MBNoema is a magazine looking at some of the biggest issues of the 21st century - AI, the climate crisis, the future of democracy and capitalism. Its Executive Editor Kathleen Miles tells us about the challenges of publishing in what seems like a very high-brow niche, commissioning and editing writers like Yuval Harari and Francis Fukuyama - and how interests outside of publishing feed back into her work. In the news roundup Peter and Chris discuss whether taking fossil fuel ad money makes pu...
FT Strategies MD Tara Lajumoke on building a robust playbook for subscription businesses
November 22, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBThis week we hear from Tara Lajumoke, Managing Director of FT Strategies, the Financial Times' consulting firm. We discussed how FT Strategies fits into the FT's wider goals, what her role involves as MD, and how they're building a robust playbook for other subscription businesses. We also talk about how publishers' subscription strategies are holding up after the pandemic. In the news round up, Peter and Esther discuss Spotify's paid podcast tools, Axios' early expansion of its local newsl...
The Independent US Senior Vice President Blair Tapper on shaping the publication overseas
November 15, 2021 20:34 - 45 minutes - 82.5 MBThis week, we hear from Blair Tapper, Senior Vice President at The Independent US. She talks about what her priorities have been since the brand's US launch, what an Independent reader looks like across the pond, and why their new commercial offerings are more mission-based. She also explains why block lists create huge missed opportunities for advertisers as well as publishers. In the news roundup the team discuss whether altruism is the key driver of subscriptions (and which publishers...
The Great Privacy Reset: Insider Inc, Future plc and Permutive discuss the challenges and opportunities for publishers
November 10, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBIn this special Conversations episode of Media Voices, sponsored by Permutive, we explore the ‘Great Privacy Reset’. The tension between advertising and privacy has hit a boiling point in recent years. Invasive tracking across the web and increasingly aggressive ways of building data profiles of consumers has been seen as standard in the industry, with companies racing to get more data than ever about people. But at the same time as awareness has grown about these methods, consumers are pus...
Global Director of Internews’ Earth Journalism Network James Fahn on why everyone should be a climate change journalist
November 08, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes - 79.4 MBThis week’s interview is with James Fahn, Global Director of Internews’ Environmental Programs and its Earth Journalism Network. Internews trains journalists around the world in support of a free press - James spoke with us as he sets out with a group of journalists from the global south to cover COP26 from their own perspectives. In the news roundup the team discuss the return to the magazine fold for one of independent newsletters' first big stars - and whether that spells the end for the...
CMQ Media Founder & Analyst David Adeleke on the media scene in Nigeria and beyond
November 01, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 79.7 MBThis week we hear from David Adeleke, Founder of CMQ Media and creator of the Communiqué newsletter analysing the intersection of the media, content ecosystem, and the digital economy in Africa. He outlines the complexities of using African media as a catch-all term, how podcasts are growing across the continent, and why an acquisition last year by Stripe has provided a lightbulb moment for technology investors. In the news roundup, the team discuss yet more revelations about Facebook (now ...
The Players‘ Tribune executive editor Sean Conboy on tackling mental health in sports reporting‘
October 25, 2021 06:00 - 46 minutes - 85.2 MBThis week we hear from Sean Conboy, Executive Editor at The Players' Tribune; a sports-focused site that publishes first-person stories from professional athletes. He talks about the process they use to get content from elite athletes, and why the site doesn't shy away from difficult stories and human rights issues, like the ones around the Qatar World Cup. In the news roundup Chris and Peter take a look at a grab bag of media stories from the Financial Times reporting a loss, through the r...
Immediate Media Chief Revenue Officer Duncan Tickell on strengthening brands post-pandemic
October 18, 2021 06:00 - 45 minutes - 83.2 MBFor our 200th episode, we hear from Duncan Tickell, Chief Revenue Officer at Immediate Media. He talks about why he rejoined Immediate and what his focus is now with diversification, how their podcasts are becoming a seven figure revenue business, and what he’s doing to help the publisher maintain the gains it made during the pandemic. He also explains why sourdough webinars have been such a hit, and why it’s so important to be in markets where consumers are passionate. In the news roundup ...
The New Republic‘s Literary Editor Laura Marsh on storytelling through print and podcasts
October 11, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 76.1 MBOn this week's episode we hear from The New Republic's Literary Editor Laura Marsh. She tells us about what makes working in an audio format especially rewarding, best practice for evolving your audio product, and why non-news content is such a good touchpoint for audiences. In the news roundup the team discuss why Facebook's outage isn't necessarily the best news for publishers, the needless and futile rollercoaster of Ozy Media, and why The Daily Mail thought it could use a lawyer's tweet...
The Information Reporter Kaya Yurieff on covering the sprawling creator economy
October 04, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 74.1 MBThis week we hear from Kaya Yurieff, The Information's Creator Economy Reporter. We talked about how she covers an industry that is so new and sprawling, some of the challenges of being a creator, and how it fits with The Information's other coverage. She also explains why businesses should take creators seriously, and why she expects to see more Creator Economy reporters at other outlets in the future. In the news round-up, Chris, Esther and a freshly holiday-ed Peter discuss the closure o...
Founder of The Manchester Mill Joshi Herrmann on why local news must rediscover its pride
September 27, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 82.1 MBThe Manchester Mill is a subscription-based newsletter for the modern age. In this interview its founder Joshi Herrmann tells us why good local journalism demands having boots on the ground, how the sins of the past are impacting the journalism of today, and how he plans to expand into new cities and new revenue streams. In the news roundup we're joined by founder of The Business of Content Simon Owens to discuss what we've learned about newsletters from one year of Casey Newton's Substack....
Social Spider MD David Floyd on finding a better way to fund local news
September 20, 2021 06:00 - 45 minutes - 83.5 MBOn this week's episode of Media Voices we hear from David Floyd, MD of Social Spider, a community interest company that publishes five community newspapers in London. He tells us about finding a new model for local news - one that's maybe commercially viable enough - and about why local news matters. In the news roundup the team discusses the revelations from the Wall Street Journal's ongoing publication of The Facebook Files, the launch of News UK's talkTV, and ask if anyone still uses Clu...
Conversations: How robot journalism is powering the modern newsroom
September 15, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 74.2 MBIn this special Conversations episode we hear about the past, future and most importantly present of robot journalism. Automated journalism has been around for many years now, delivering value back to the parent newsrooms that use it effectively. AI tools allow newsrooms to tailor the output of the robots to fit their house style, to interview people for inclusion in the created article - and to allow the newsrooms’ human writers to spread their wings. In this episode Cecilia Campbell of U...
Former EMPIRE Editor in Chief Terri White on why she left the best job in magazines
September 13, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 80.2 MBOn this special episode of Media Voices, former Editor in Chief of EMPIRE Terri White takes us through the changes she made during her time at the magazine, from opening up the brand to a wider audience of both readers and contributors, to inspiring staff and cultivating the passionate community of new and longer-term subscribers. She also expounds her reasons for resigning from EMPIRE - a role that she still today calls the best job in the world - and the realities of juggling family life ...
Editor and publisher of Freelancer Sophie Cross on the joys of launching an indie mag
July 26, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 73.2 MBIn this week's episode we hear from Sophie Cross, the founder and editor of Freelancer magazine. She tells Peter about her penchant for writing business plans, the freelance community that inspired the Freelancer magazine launch, and how she kept the spark going after the initial rush of the first issue. In the news roundup the team discusses the remarkable e-commerce based turnaround of Future plc, Twitter's revenue results, and ask if Facebook is launching its independent publishing platfo...
Future Chief Audience & eCom Officer Aaron Asadi on driving affiliate revenue
July 19, 2021 06:00 - 46 minutes - 84.6 MBIn this episode Future's Chief Audience and Ecommerce Officer Aaron Asadi tells us about where the ecommerce function sits within Future, how it is developing in relation to audience development, and creating content for affiliate ecommerce revenues across a huge range of brands. In the news roundup the team discusses whether climate change needs to become a part of every journalist's beat, the internal wars going on at GB News and Twitter sunsetting its Fleets feature. Put in the spotlight,...
Journalism.co.uk Editor Marcela Kunova on nurturing innovation in newsrooms
July 12, 2021 06:00 - 42 minutes - 77.5 MBThis week we hear from Marcela Kunova, Editor at Journalism.co.uk. She’s recently launched a newsroom innovation mentorship programme which will pair experienced industry professionals with local and regional journalists in the UK, with the aim of nurturing innovation in audience engagement, AI, editorial strategy and more. We talked about what she’s hoping to achieve with the programme, how she translated Newsrewired to a virtual event, and why it’s so important to support freelancers. In th...
Bauer CEO Chris Duncan on leading a magazine business through lockdown
July 05, 2021 06:00 - 42 minutes - 77.5 MBThis 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 Bauer through such a turbulent year, their wins and losses throughout the pandemic, and which trends he's seen accelerated in the business. He also discusses how Bauer's business priorities have changed post-Covid, and what it's like heading a magazine company after over a decade working at a news publ...
Independent Digital News & Media's Jo Holdaway on the importance of data to publishers
June 28, 2021 06:00 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBThis week, we hear from Jo Holdaway, Chief Data and Marketing Officer at Independent Digital News & Media - home of The Independent and The Evening Standard. She talks about what sort of data is important to publishers, especially when it comes to subscription strategies, why it's important to have a diverse team working with data, and how she's preparing the business for the sunsetting of third-party cookies. In the news round up, Peter and Esther are joined by guest host Adam Tinworth to di...
Defector VP of Revenue & Operations Jasper Wang on growing an employee-owned newsbrand
June 21, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 82.3 MBThis week we hear from Jasper Wang, VP of Revenue & Operations for Defector Media. Defector was formed after a mass staff exodus from former GO Media property Deadspin after an internal dispute about who knew its audience best. Defector is now an employee-owned and operated news site that has introduced measures specifically to ensure its staff have a say in the business, even as they write for its audience. Now, on the first anniversary of its founding, we hear about the site's ambitions, ho...
MDIF Deputy CEO Mohamed Nanabhay on investing in sustainable media businesses
June 14, 2021 06:00 - 50 minutes - 91.5 MBThis week, we hear from Mohamed Nanabhay, Deputy CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund. He talks about his work in the early days of online publishing bringing 'new media' to Al Jazeera, how the MDIF decides which businesses to invest in, and why he thinks the pandemic has provided an opportunity for independent media to thrive. Their latest initiative, MDIF Ventures is accepting applications now for media companies located in countries where access to free and independent news and inf...
Decanter Editor in Chief Chris Maillard on refreshing Future’s wine brand for its loyal readers
June 07, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 81.2 MBIn this week's episode we hear from Decanter's Editor in Chief Chris Maillard about the challenge of refreshing Future's newly-acquired wine brand - without alienating its incredibly loyal readership. In the news roundup we discuss whether local news has reached a turning point, ask if we'd pay for Twitter Blue, and laugh at Trump closing his blog due to low readership. Chris fills in for Peter in the outro, to mixed success.
Conversations: How Eurosport is turning its evergreen content into success in podcasting
June 02, 2021 06:00 - 45 minutes - 83 MBFor publishers with a well established content workflow, adding podcasts can seem like a daunting task. But, as this Conversations episode demonstrates, those publishers already have what is needed to create and distribute podcasts that add value to your audience and business alike. Media Voices co-founder Chris Sutcliffe talks to Eurosport’s Aude Baron and Podinstall's Sarah Toporoff to discuss: What are the biggest challenges for publishers trying to get into podcasting? How did Eurosport...
The Membership Economy's Robbie Kellman Baxter on developing compelling direct to consumer offers
May 31, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 79.7 MBIn this week's episode we hear from Robbie Kellman Baxter, an author and consultant with over twenty years of experience in subscription pricing, digital community, and freemium. Robbie started working with membership and subscription models like Netflix while they were still sending out DVDs, and has written The Membership Economy and The Forever Transaction exploring the membership models of the industry giants, and how organisations of any size can take a slice of the subscription pie for ...
Columnist and lecturer Bo Sacks on why now is the golden age of publishing
May 24, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 73.7 MBThis week we hear from Bo Sacks, lecturer and media expert, about trends that have come and gone, why he thinks there’s strength in print as a niche product, and why we’re currently in the golden age of publishing. In the news roundup we discuss the vampiric Alden Global Capital acquiring Tribune Publishing (née Tronc), Snapchat's push into augmented reality, and Axel Springer's "sudden" and "inexplicable" partnership with Facebook. Watch Peter floss over at the Media Voices TikTok channel.
Special: Which publishers won the pandemic?
May 17, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 76.7 MBIn this special episode, the Media Voices team take a look at which media companies and personalities have been the biggest winners and losers of the lockdown-era. From The Big Issue to almost every event company, we try to find the silver linings for publishers in what's been a mostly awful year.
Mental Floss EIC Erin McCarthy on the title's 20-year mission to make readers smarter
May 10, 2021 06:00 - 42 minutes - 77.5 MBThis week Mental Floss editor in chief Erin McCarthy tells us about how its celebrating its 20th anniversary, how the magazine started in a university dorm room, its mission to help people feel smarter and how the team decides what to cover. In the news roundup the team discuss a good week for a business-savvy Twitter, a bad week for Facebook and Snapchat, and the worst few years of all time for Yahoo & AOL. Peter has emails older than Esther.
Twitch's Creative Strategy Lead Jack Woodcock on building communities through livestreams
May 04, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 73.2 MBThis week Twitch's Creative Strategy Lead Jack Woodcock tells us about the opportunities for publishers around livestreaming, what lessons we can learn from the success of individual streamers, and how the team at Twitch looks to the community when creating new features. In the news roundup the team discuss the rise of subscription products for podcasts, ask why local news isn't reaping the digital ad boom, and discuss Gannett paying some women nearly $30,000 less than their male peers. The ...
The Fat Zine co-founder Gina Tonic on being an activist vs. being a publisher
April 26, 2021 06:00 - 39 minutes - 73.1 MBIn this week's episode we hear from co-founder Gina Tonic on The Fat Zine - an independent magazine by fat people for fat people plus those that care. We spoke about the F word, the influence of Pitch Perfect, being an activist vs being a publisher, Fat Liberation and how inside every thin person there’s a fat person dying to get out. In the news roundup we take a look at which publishers have come out of the pandemic in the best shape, ask why there have been so many journalism unions estab...
WSJ Editor of Live Journalism Kim Last on virtual events as a live magazine
April 19, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 79 MBThis 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 pandemic hit, and what they are doing to bring events and networking to life virtually as their Future of Everything Festival approaches. In the news roundup we discuss Dollar Shave Club pulling its funding from Mel Magazine, ask if Substack Local can solve the issue of news deserts, and test Peter'...
Shado co-founder Hannah Robathan on the magazine as an outlet for activism
March 22, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes - 80.3 MBThis 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 their frustration with the mainstream media, what activism means and what success looks like for Shado. In the news roundup, the BBC and Reach make big announcements about office closures, we ask if an Instagram for under 13s is as crazy as it sounds, and discuss the Telegraph tying its journalists...
The Big Issue CEO Paul Cheal on the magazine’s fight to survive lockdown
March 15, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes - 80 MBOn 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 thinking about how the Big Issue will work in the future. In the news roundup the team recaps a week that reflects poorly on the UK media landscape and asks what can be done to improve its bigotry issue. We also look at Google's PPID solution, The Information's five new newsletters, and BuzzFeed gutting...
Wareable.com's James Stables on surviving a catastrophic loss of search traffic
March 08, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 84.4 MBThis week James Stables, founder and Co CEO of tech recommendation sites Wareable.com and The Ambient, discusses the meteoric rise of the business, unknown SEO problems, and the precarious nature of affiliate revenues. In the news roundup it's Peter vs. Esther in the battle of reader revenues. We discuss the Facebook Oversight Board's teething troubles, several new launches, and City AM's return to print. Chris wears out a new sound effect in the space of a single episode.
The Delicate Rébellion's Hannah Taylor on supporting her community's creative passions
March 01, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 71.9 MBIn this week's episode Hannah Taylor, editor and founder for The Delicate Rébellion, tells us about her print magazine showcasing the work of independent female creatives, the community that has grown out of the magazine and her new online shop. She tells us how crappy teachers led her eventually to start her own magazine to encourage women to follow their creative passions. In the news roundup the team discusses Twitter launching its subscription options for creators, the ongoing saga of Au...
The Bureau Local director Megan Lucero on the collaborative future of news
February 22, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutes - 87.1 MBThis week Megan Lucero, director of the Bureau Local at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, provides us with a look at the present and future of local journalism. From the trials of finding resources to the project mentality behind some powerful stories, Lucero provides a hopeful and achievable look at how regional media is changing. In the news roundup, we discuss the fallout and hot takes from the Australia/Google/Facebook news and try to come with a workable solution to an intractable...
Director of the Reuters Institute Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on why we get news subscriptions wrong
February 15, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 70.6 MBThis week Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, tells us where newspapers are going wrong in their subscription marketing. We also discuss why there’s no easy solution to the need for internal change in newsrooms, why Nordic countries outperform when it comes to the membership mentality, and why we should look to Coca-Cola for advice. In the news roundup we take a tour through all the subscription-focused news of the ...
Quartz CEO Zach Seward on charting a new course for the business lifestyle brand
February 08, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes - 75.7 MBThis week Zach Seward, CEO of Quartz, explains why he bought the business lifestyle brand from Uzabase. He tells us how it all started and how it’s going, about memberships and advertising, and the Quartz mission to make business better. In the news roundup Peter and Chris discuss the opportunities for The New European after its purchase by a consortium of the best and brightest in the media business world. We also discuss Google's latest advertising battles, the launch of URL Media, and the...
Mr. Magazine Samir Husni on why magazines are new media
February 01, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 85.3 MBThis 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 new media. He explains the wild ride that was magazine publishing in 2020, his print evangelism, the benefits that digital brings and his favourite magazine. Oh, and why he's called 'Mr. Magazine'. In the news roundup, Chris and Peter discuss Twitter getting into the subscription business, why Facebook ...
Yahoo Lifestyle Southeast Asia Editor in Chief Reta Lee on identifying emerging content trends
January 25, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes - 60.7 MBThis week we hear from Yahoo Lifestyle's Editor in Chief for Southeast Asia Reta Lee. We talked about her career in media and her work at Yahoo Lifestyle, including spinning up new content pillars and identifying new trends. She also discusses the opportunity for eCommerce in Asia, collaborating with teams in the US and UK, and what opportunities she's got her eye on over the next few years. In the news roundup we ask what motivates the constant argy bargy between tech platforms, countries a...
Media Voices Conversations: Pugpig's Jonny Kaldor on the state of the digital publishing market
January 20, 2021 12:27 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MBLast 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 their publishing clients and interviewing 40 senior executives, they created the company’s first annual State of the Digital Publishing Market report. As the platform provider for over 300 media brands - from The Economist to The Independent - Pugpig is in a unique position to answer key questions abo...
Think Publishing CEO Ian McAuliffe on perfect staff and clients
January 18, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes - 79.7 MBThis week Ian McAuliffe, founder and CEO of Think Publishing, talks about the evolving landscape of contract publishing. He tells us about the ideal employee or a contract publisher, the ideal client and how the pandemic has accelerated digital adoption amongst traditionally conservative clients, but still not killed off print. In the news roundup, we discuss Axios launching its own communications platform that will enable businesses to update their employees in Axios’ bullet-point style, sc...
Axios' Media Reporter Sara Fischer on crafting informative newsletters and media coverage
January 11, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes - 88.3 MBThis week Sara Fischer, Media Reporter at Axios, tells us about her process for crafting a thoughtful, informative newsletter, whether Axios’ ‘smart brevity’ model can work for local news, and what lessons she’s taken from covering media companies that she applies to her own work. In the news roundup the team discuss the fallout for publishers from Trump's ban from social media, and the trends that led to this point. We also talk UK local news priorities, why Meredith’s Travel + Leisure has ...
The Economist's Deputy Editor Tom Standage on why newspapers should predict the future
December 14, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes - 79.8 MBAs well as its flagship paper, The Economist also publishes future-gazing issues looking at what to expect the next year and even further into the future. This week Tom Standage, its Deputy Editor and Head of Digital Strategy tells us about the reason why it believes doing so is central its mission, what needs to happen to prevent journalists revisiting familiar mistakes in the near future, and why blaming the Duopoly for revenue doldrums is unhelpful. In the news roundup the team discusses ...
Special: Highlights from Media Moments 2020
December 07, 2020 07:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBThis special episode includes the audio of our launch presentation for the Media Moments 2020 report. Esther, Peter and Chris examine one key stat of each section within the report, from diversity through platforms to trust. In the second half of the episode the team is joined by a panel of Jemima Villanueva, Executive Director, EMEA at The Atlantic, Aly Nurmohamed, General Manager of Permutive and Andrea Barbalich, Editor in Chief of The Week Junior US. Download the full report at https:/...