The Future of Media, Explained - from Press Gazette

Sit back and share a glass of sparkling wine with the Press Gazette team as they reflect on a year in media and share some predictions about what will happen next.From news avoidance to the big B2B bounceback, Dominic Ponsford, Charlotte Tobitt, Will Turvill and Bron Maher explained what they learned in 2022 and reveal the biggest challenges for news media in 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Palmer is the co-founder and chief executive of Punchbowl News, a subscription-based political news startup based in Washington, DC. In this episode, former Politico journalist Palmer speaks to Press Gazette's William Turvill about her career, political journalism in the US, and the growth of Punchbowl, which was launched in January 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An earlier version of this podcast was missing a section, this has now been corrected.Press Gazette editor in chief Dominic Ponsford spoke to Ink Publishing chief executive Simon Leslie about how his company bounced back from disaster in 2020.It went from being the biggest in-flight magazine publisher in the world, with turnover of £100m, to zero overnight in March 2020. He talks about how the company recovered and reinvented itself with a little bit of help from 50 of the world's leading motivational speakers including Wim Hoff, Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort and diminutive US mountaineer Alison Levine.Leslie has plenty of upbeat advice for media CEOs who may be worrying about the current economic downturn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Co-founder of Tortoise and former president of Dow Jones Katie Vanneck-Smith spoke to Press Gazette about leadership as she starts her new role as CEO of Hearst UK.She explained why you need to treat colleagues like family, the big mistake they made launching Tortoise (and how they fixed it) and why there are opportunities in a downturn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sponsored by DanAds, the 24th episode of the Press Gazette Future of Media Explained podcast looks at self-serve advertising.Press Gazette's reporter Bron Maher spoke with DanAds chief marketing officer Lisen Zethraeus, National World's director of digital monetisation Jade Power and Tripadvisor Ad Express' Eoin McGregor about what's useful about self-serve ads for publishers.We heard that self-serve systems hand time back to stretched sales departments, that they open publishers up to valuable revenue from smaller advertisers, and - most importantly for Bron - what self-serve advertising is in the first place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean Griffey is the chief executive and co-founder of Industry Dive, a US B2B publisher that was recently acquired by Informa for £323m. Here he speaks to Press Gazette's William Turvill about how he built his business from scratch, why Industry Dive has opted against putting its titles behind paywalls, and future growth plans.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We spoke to editor of Tortoise studios Ceri Thomas and head of strategy at Auddy Oliver Thomas about the future of podcasting.Thomas explained how podcasting has become central to everything the slow-news publisher does and revealed that be believes it now as the largest podcasting newsroom in London (outside the BBC). Oliver Thomas explained why technology and improved discoverability mean that podcasting could become as ubiquitous as online video in the years to come.This episode was sponsored by Auddy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

*Partner content. In the newest edition of Press Gazette's Future of Media Explained podcast, we sat down with Reuters to hear how they're gearing up to cover what looks to be a contentious nail-biter of an election.With the close-run midterms only a week away, the wire agency's politics and digital verification editors say some misinformation has become so entrenched it has changed the shape of their election coverage.They told Press Gazette reporter Bron Maher about zany claims breaching into the mainstream, what goes into running multi-state election coverage and what the business case is for investing in fact-checking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Janice Min is a former leader of The Hollywood Reporter and Us Weekly. Now she is attempting to build up Ankler Media, a newsletter start-up that covers the Hollywood entertainment industry. Here she speaks to Press Gazette's William Turvill about her career, Ankler and the future of newsletters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Press Gazette's William Turvill interviews M Scott Havens, the chief executive of Bloomberg Media. Havens, who took up his role earlier this year, spoke about why he believes his company is well-positioned to thrive despite a “looming recession” threatened the global media industry. He believes Bloomberg Media, the consumer arm of Michael Bloomberg’s financial giant, is in a “unique position” to take advantage of growing demand for impartial news. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.