Building a movement through podcasts: The story of Myanmar’s 25-year-old “boss lady”
Sitting cross-legged on a couch, Nandar (who goes by one name) places a pair of headphones over her ears and a lapel microphone on her…
Building a newsroom dedicated to diversity: An Indian story
At Khabar Lahariya, women from remote villages of north India are trained to be professional journalists and produce local news in their languages. Takeaways India’s…
A pint-sized publisher’s surprising success
Bands from as far away as America and Australia are asking to be included in upcoming issues While it seems a lot of kids his…
In a publishing COVID-19 world is networking still a thing?
OPINION There was a time when I was a monthly columnist for Publishing Executive magazine. Each year my editor asked me to do a tips…
Journalism of Drum’s heyday remains cause for celebration – 70 years later
Drum becomes an online-only magazine this month, almost 70 years after it was first launched as an African print publication. The magazine is now a…
First News School Newspaper of the Year Awards: Publishing has a bright future
First News, the widest-read children’s publication in the UK with a weekly readership of 2.2M 7-14-year-old’s, has announced the winners of the First News School…
Publishing pandemic roundtable with UK publisher Jim Bilton
This is Part One of a Two Part Roundtable with Jim Bilton, the Managing Director of Wessenden Marketing. It is re-published with kind permission of…
How The Economist built a successful global reader acquisition channel by bringing its content to life
What started out as a brief tactical test with global brand experience agency Sense in the UK has now delivered over 150,000 subscriptions across eight…
How a 72-year-old magazine beat the pandemic, re-hired staffers, and bounced back to business
It was late March of this year when San Diego magazine shuttered its operations and laid off most of its staff due to recently-imposed lockdown…
Sustainable publishing: How media companies are tackling climate change head on
With coronavirus lockdowns around the world beginning to ease, the global public health conversation looks set to turn back towards climate change. Here, we look…
World Media Group editors’ perspectives: How global leaders are responding to Covid-19
Five months after the first cases of Covid-19 were reported, there is hope that much of Europe, along with Asia, has passed the peak of…
How one indie US publisher is navigating the current crisis
East End Taste was born at home in 2014, just three months after my first child came into the world. As a digital publication that…
Digital detox offers new perspectives on our relationship with technology
OPINION In times of crisis, we turn to the media for comfort and company. We hang on to the news for updates and vital information.…
Screen time: Conclusions about the effects of digital media are often incomplete, irrelevant or wrong
There’s a lot of talk about digital media. Increasing screen time has created worries about media’s impacts on democracy, addiction, depression, relationships, learning, health, privacy and much more. The effects are frequently assumed to…
6 trends that will change communication
Venezuelan philosopher, Antonio Pasquali, who wrote extensively about how media and society affected each other, passed away on Oct. 5, 2019, in Spain. In 1984, Pasquali…
“Membership is an attitude, an emotion”: How publishers can find their super users, master the forever transaction, and build recurring revenue
Publishers investing in generating recurring revenues from their readers would find a useful manual in the book The Membership Economy by Robbie Kellman Baxter. Those…
Q&A: IAA UK Chapter, the industry leaders nurturing advertising and media talent
Established in 1938, the IAA is the international trade body for the advertising industry, with chapters all over the world run by experts who volunteer…
The perils of whiplash journalism: Lessons from the Amazon
In chasing the news, there’s always the danger of missing the story, and the recent Amazon rainforest fires prove an unwelcome reminder that it’s all…
The evolution of yellow journalism (and why it matters)
Let’s talk about human nature for a moment. In November 1849, a well known English writer and social critic wrote a letter to the British…
Publishing myths: 10 misconceptions to be cautious of
We’re at a point in publishing where so much has happened, and so much is happening that we’re in danger of being both in a blur and…
