The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices

Welcome to the latest season of The Publisher Podcast, bringing you the best of the main stage sessions from The Publisher Summit.

This week’s episode features Tobi Oredein, CEO and Founder of Black Ballad, the lifestyle publication for and by Black women in Britain.

Tobi talked about how the brand’s transformation into an independent media and data company was driven by its membership strategy. Black Ballad today has ...

Welcome to the latest season of The Publisher Podcast, bringing you the best of the main stage sessions from The Publisher Summit.

This week’s episode is a panel on how publishers are using newsletters to supercharge other areas of a publishing business. Newsletters have grown beyond being an extension of a publisher brand and surfacing web stories to being mini brands in their own right for some publishers. Some have even be...

Welcome to the latest season of The Publisher Podcast, bringing you the best of the main stage sessions from The Publisher Summit.

This week’s episode features Liz Wynn, Chief Supporter Revenue Officer at The Guardian, interviewed by Craig Llewelyn-Williams, SVP for Customer Strategy at Woodwing.

Everyone is feeling the effects of industry headwinds like falling traffic, AI summaries and unreliable social media referrals. The...

Welcome back to the latest season of The Publisher Podcast, bringing you the best of the main stage sessions from The Publisher Summit.

This week’s episode is a panel on how publishers are focusing on quality over quantity for long-term, sustainable audience relationships - something which was echoed throughout other sessions on the day. As pressures on traffic and discovery grow, coupled with the bombardment of AI ‘slo...

Welcome back to the latest season of The Publisher Podcast, bringing you the best of the main stage sessions from The Publisher Summit.

This week's guest is Liz Settle, MD of Good Housekeeping. Liz joined Good Housekeeping in 2023 with a ‘change brief’ to ready Good Housekeeping for the future. Over the past few years, she’s bridged the gap between customer needs and editorial output, broken down print and digital...

Welcome back to the latest season of The Publisher Podcast, bringing you the best of the main stage sessions from The Publisher Summit.

This week's guest is Sarah Donaldson, co-founder of news start-up The Nerve. In a bit of a twist, this isn’t actually audio from the Summit. We scheduled a 20 minute interview slot on stage with Sarah and barely scratched the surface of what we wanted to discuss as it’s such a fascinati...

For publishers and event organisers, knowing where to start with AI is a common conundrum. For Bridged Media’s clients, the starting point is always a problem to be solved.

Welcome to the latest in our Media Briefs series of short, sharp sponsored episodes, this time featuring a senior executive working with a vendor that is making their businesses better.

In this episode, we hear from Sharon Roessen, Chief Operating Officer ...

In this special Conversations episode of The Publisher Podcast, sponsored by Pugpig, we hear from CEO and founder Jonny Kaldor about the data that proves apps are engagement and retention powerhouses.

Pugpig has just released their annual 2026 Media App Report, packed with benchmarks and insights from 140 media brands and 440+ live apps. Jonny looks at some of the publisher app trends from the report, why direct consumer relationsh...

In the final episode of this season of The Publisher Podcast, we're joined by Lily Barclay, the first Content Director of Immediate's Food Group covering BBC Good Food and olive magazine.

Lily has been with Good Food for over 18 years and has seen the brand's evolution from print only to a multiplatform and multi-brand specialist publishing group.

She talks about what separates their food brands, Immediate's new Good Food Kitchen t...

This week's guest on The Publisher Podcast is Heather Dietrick, Chief Media Officer at Outside Inc. 

Heather talked about the evolution of the company from 'just' a magazine to what she calls a fully integrated outdoor ecosystem, encompassing 15 media brands, events, consumer apps and travel services. What ties everything together is a mission to inspire and enable people to get outside.

She also discusses Outside Inc's revenu...

This week's guest on The Publisher Podcast is Toby Moses, Head of Newsletters at The Guardian. Toby has been in charge of newsletters at The Guardian since 2021 - the first person in the role.

Just five years ago, there was no real unified newsletter strategy at The Guardian. Now, after many launches and relaunches, newsletters are a key part of how the publisher builds relationships with its readers, with journalists front and cen...

This week's guest on The Publisher Podcast is Gemma Ware, Head of Audio at The Conversation UK. She joined as the publication was launching in the UK as Education Editor, but soon spotted an opportunity to develop a podcast offering.

Over the years, The Conversation's podcasts have grown in sophistication, earning them two trophies at last year's Publisher Podcast Awards. Gemma takes us through their journey in audio, from early ex...

At Flashes & Flames' recent Monetising B2B Information and Events conference in London, leading B2B publishers shared their priorities, opportunities and concerns across the day. 

Held at London’s historic Stationers’ Hall, the event featured more than 30 industry-leading speakers and 210 delegates from three continents. The speakers showed that the B2B industry is going through another transformation, moving a...

What is zero-click search, and does it really pose an existential threat to the publishing business?

Our new report, The Zero-Click Content Shift, aims to answer exactly that question. Produced in association with Woodwing and authored by MediaVoices' Peter Houston, the report gauges the impact of Google's AI Overviews on publisher traffic, and tries to get a sense of how big the threat really is. We also take a closer look at the ...

In this episode of The Publisher Podcast, we're joined by Lauren Holleyoake, Publisher of Bauer magazines Grazia, Empire and Mojo, and also the lead of Bauer's bookazine business.

Bauer has a strong portfolio of print specialist titles in areas like golf, classic cars and angling. They have made bookazines in the past, but part of Lauren's job has been to formalise the process, from coming up with standard ways of working to explor...

In this episode of The Publisher Podcast, we're joined by Liz Alesse, Vice President and General Manager of Axios Local. She is responsible for building and scaling Axios' local journalism business as a sustainable national platform.

Liz talks about how Axios Local has evolved since launching five years ago, and what they've learned about scaling with market-specific models rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. She emphasises t...

In this episode of The Publisher Podcast, we're joined by Charlotte Owen, Executive Vice President at BDG and Editor-in-Chief of Bustle.

Bustle is a female-focused media brand aimed at 20-30 year olds who want to live a big life. Charlotte talks about the importance of niche targeting over broad appeal, how the generalist era being over has helped editors hone in on points of view, and how they leverage social media. 

She also...

In the latest episode of our spring 2026 season of The Publisher Podcast, we're joined by Ismail Akwei, Editor of Global South World.

Global South World is a news brand with a mission to build a more informed and nuanced understanding of the Global South, counteracting parachute journalism and condescension with news and opinion from a network of journalists and creators that actually live across Asia, Africa and South America.

Akw...

In the latest episode of our spring 2026 season of The Publisher Podcast, we're joined by Dea Lawrence, Publisher and Co-President of Variety.

Variety has transformed from a B2B pure play to a hybrid business and consumer publication. It still does 70,000 copies a week in print for the industry people who are super keen to see themselves on the cover, but online it reaches millions of passionate entertainment fans.

Dea talks about ...