AOP CRUNCH: The Great Resignation… or the Great Opportunity?
The media industry can be a hostile environment for people who aren’t straight, white, cisgender, male graduates. While diversity is improving at entry-level, there is…
What Analytics taught me about my community
My newsletter and publishing partners matter more than social media and search I’ve been publishing a blog for some 12 years now and have never been dazzled…
Media Entrepreneur Meetup Community expands to B2C specialist and passion-led media owners
The Media Entrepreneur Meetup, a global group of 400+ Founders and CEOs of independent events, media and subscriptions companies, has created a new Chapter for…
News Media Alliance and MPA – The Association of Magazine Media announce merger
The News Media Alliance and MPA – The Association of Magazine Media have announced their agreement to merge. The newly combined association will be called the News/Media Alliance and,…
2022 Digital Publishing Awards: AOP announces shortlist
The UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Digital Publishing Awards – a celebration of the individuals and teams…
The magazines and I: Reliving the past
At age 10 I fell in love with magazines. The rest is history. A history that you will read about it soon in the book…
Crescent Scaleup Programme for publishers opens applications for its summer intake
Collingwood Advisory, one of the world’s leading growth consultancies for publishers and media companies, has opened up its renowned Crescent program for new members joining…
Media experiences: Should I accept this promotion or job offer?
Say yes if the organization invests in developing people’s talents and abilities Over the years, lots of colleagues and students have asked me whether they…
Blazing a trail for the Ramblers Let’s Walk Together campaign
When the Ramblers asked Immediate to develop a campaign to grow awareness of the charity’s activities, boost web traffic and drive membership, we put our…
Gender and media viability: making a business case for diversity (Part Two)
International Women’s Day seems like a fitting time to discuss the relationship between gender and media business performance. MDIF’s 25 years of experience in supporting…
Magazines done well… Lessons from Harold Ross, Founder and Editor of The New Yorker
From the Mr. Magazine™ Vault Digital has become an easy scapegoat to killing print. No one will think twice to look at the real reasons for killing…
Newsrooms’ problem with talent turnover: How to turn it around
Attracting and keeping talent in the newsroom is a real struggle with huge consequences In this column, I have written several times that one of the problems many newsrooms…
Gender and media viability: making a business case for diversity (Part One)
International Women’s Day seems like a fitting time to discuss the relationship between gender and media business performance. MDIF’s 25 years of experience in supporting…
Top media executives and content creators share their secrets in new online course
Growing your content business The University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication has launched a new 10-week entrepreneurial journalism program for content creators, entrepreneurs…
“Our employees can work anywhere”: How one U.S. publisher is tackling the Great Resignation
Founded in 2018, Recurrent Ventures is very much the modern digital media company. Backed by venture capital from North Equity LLC, the publisher has spent…
Every journalist and PR should take Google’s Data Journalism course: Here’s why
Publishers and news outlets have not always seen Google as a friend, given its dominance of the online search space and the critical role it…
“This magazine idea will never work… and other myths”: Reader’s Digest at 100
A Mr. Magazine™ Musing After more than two years of hearing that his magazine idea The Reader’s Digest will never work, DeWitt Wallace, with the help of his…
Protecting critical content: How the decentralized web is opening up new paths for archivists
Smartphones have revolutionized our lives – we carry a powerful tool in our pockets that allows us to capture and share content immediately. Yet, one question…
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year
All the editorial team and writers at What’s New in Publishing, as well as our owners Sovrn Holdings, Inc., would like to wish our readers a…
What journalists can leave behind on our way to the Promised Land
I often refer to the journalism community as a diaspora. Like the Jews in the biblical story of Moses, we’ve left. Most people know the…
