The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices

Dec 01 2024 100 ep. 39 mins 360
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Media Voices is a weekly look at all the news and views from across the media world, featuring leading figures from media and publishing businesses

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Pod in a Pub: Publishing's pivotal moments this year, and predictions for 2025

Dec 01 2024 41 mins  
This episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices – our last for this season – was recorded at the White Swan in Aldgate, London on November 27th in front of a live audience. In the absence of our usual annual Media Moments report*, we took a fun look back at some of the pivotal publishing moments of the year, and what 2025 might have in store. The audience were invited to

Dow Jones' Emma O'Brian on the backroom magic behind a specialised portfolio

Nov 24 2024 38 mins  
In this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast, we hear from Emma O’Brian, SVP Strategy for Dow Jones. Everyone knows Dow Jones – or at least a few parts of its portfolio, even if they don’t know it as part of the greater organisation. But as the company moves from a portfolio-based business to a vertical-oriented publishing and information one, how is that impacting its bac

Will Hayward on relaunching a successful solo newsletter

Nov 17 2024 28 mins  
This week on The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we're joined by Will Hayward, journalist, author and columnist specialising in Welsh politics. He also writes The Will Hayward Newsletter, which he relaunched in September after running it for nearly a year as one of Reach plc's Substack experiments, where it won Best Politics Newsletter at this year's Publisher Newsletter Awards.

Media Briefs: BlueConic’s Patrick Crane on managing data strategies in times of constant transformation

Nov 13 2024 21 mins  
Third-party cookies aren’t going away any time soon, but many publishers have already reduced dependency on them as a revenue stream. As the landscape continues to shift, what should publishers looking towards the longer term be thinking of when it comes to their own data strategies, and how can various types of first-party data play a part? This is the latest in our Media Briefs

Total Politics' Ludovica D'Angelo on the primacy of product in a shifting media landscape

Nov 10 2024 42 mins  
This week on The Publisher Podcast, as part of the product-oriented remit we’ve set ourselves for the series, we hear from Ludovica D’Angelo, Director of Publishing Operations for the Total Politics Group. As we discuss in the episode, that’s a very specialised publishing business – and a commensurately specialised role. But for Ludovica, who has previously worked for publi

Saveur’s Kat Craddock on rebuilding a premium print presence on digital foundations

Nov 03 2024 28 mins  
On this week’s episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we hear from Kat Craddock Editor-in-Chief, CEO and owner of Saveur magazine, a 30-year old publishing brand that returned to print this year after a 4 year hiatus. Kat’s announcement that Saveur would be returning to print, is one of the best, most honest explanations I’ve seen of how print publishing has change

Farmers Weekly’s Daniel Smith on creating and monetising a podcast for farmers

Oct 28 2024 33 mins  
On this week’s episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we hear from Daniel Smith, Managing Director of the Mark Allen Group’s Agriculture division, which includes brands like Farmers Weekly, Pig World and Poultry Business. His team are behind the Farmers Weekly podcast, which was shortlisted in the Best B2B Podcast category at the Publisher Podcast Awards earlier this

Torstar Corporation's Brandon Grosvenor on early micropayment experiments

Oct 20 2024 26 mins  
On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we speak to Brandon Grosvenor, Chief Revenue Officer at Torstar Corporation, home of The Toronto Star. Over the summer, The Toronto Star became one of the first large publishers in North America to announce they were rolling out micropayments. It's a feature audiences frequently request - especially with the rise of p

The Knowledge's Jon Connell on why newsletters are aimed at mindsets, not demographics

Oct 13 2024 32 mins  
On this week’s episode of Media Voices, we hear from The Knowledge’s founder Jon Connell. The Knowledge is a free-to-read newsletter aimed not at a particular demographic, but at a ‘mindset’. Connell and team’s aim is to provide an antidote to the outrage engine, instant gratification-baiting nature of social publishing. At the same time they seek to speak to people who a

The Economist's John Shields on growing subscriber-only podcasts

Oct 06 2024 27 mins  
On this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices, we speak to John Shields, Director of Podcasts at The Economist. They made the bold move last year to put almost all their podcasts behind a paywall, creating a separate Economist Podcasts+ subscription option. A year on from the launch of Economist Podcasts+, John discusses what drove the decision, some of the risks