The Future of Media, Explained - from Press Gazette
Press Gazette has covered the world of news media since 1965. This podcast draws on the expertise of our award-winning team and brings in expert voices to explain one theme, idea, strategy or innovation every week.The Future of Media Explained aims to provide industry leaders with the information they need to create commercially successful businesses based on quality content. If you need to know about topics like: cookie-less targeting, data journalism, paywall strategies, content management systems, new publishing revenue strategies and audience growth tactics - then this is the podcast for you. It also aims to provide insight into the...
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Tech transformation at ADWEEK with Mike Beyman
ADWEEK chief strategy officer Mike Beyman talks AI, tech transformation and new forms of advertising for publishers with Press Gazette editor in chief Dominic Ponsford. This episode was sponsored by WordPress VIP.<p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>
Reporting Andrew arrest, robot reporters at Mediahuis and Dom's verdict on Prince Harry trial
<p>Dominic Ponsford and Charlotte Tobitt talk about how journalists broke news of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest and why they named him despite the privacy risk.</p><br><p>They also discuss a plan by Mediahuis to cover "first-line" news with AI agents, and Dom gives his (somewhat premature) verdict on the Prince Harry and others versus Associated Newspapers privacy trial.</p><p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>
Quality not discounts: How The Atlantic is powering subscriber growth
<p>Atlantic Media’s chief growth officer Megha Garibaldi explained how the next phase of growth for the title needs a focus on “quality traffic” as referral sources decline across news media.</p><br><p>Also joining the discussion with Press Gazette editor-in-chief Dominic Ponsford was specialist media management consultant Graham Page of Q5.</p><br><p>The Atlantic already has more than 1.4 million subscribers but Garibaldi sees plenty of scope for more growth. She also stressed that strong journalism remains the foundation of subscription growth, rather than deep discounting.</p><br><p>Q5 head of media Graham Page highlighted the im...
Ben Smith on building a $40m turnover news business in three years
<p>Media start-up Semafor reached profitability in 2025 with revenue of $40m, in the third full year after its October 2022 launch.</p><br><p>Co-founder and editor-in-chief Ben Smith joined Press Gazette’s UK editor Charlotte Tobitt in London to discuss how the business became an overnight success in a difficult climate for media overall.</p><br><p>Smith discussed Semafor’s expansion plans, why its initial bet on video didn’t work out, why it still doesn’t have a paywall, and shared his advice for other media business founders.</p><p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Prince Harry versus tabloids: The final showdown
<p>Prince Harry is facing the publisher of the Daily Mail in what is set to be one Britain's biggest ever privacy trials.</p><p>Costs for both sides could top £40m.</p><p>Harry has accused the Mail of commissioning burglary, phone tapping and voicemail interception. The Mail denies everything and accuses Prince Harry's legal team of using cash payments to witnesses to bolster their case.</p><p>Dominic Ponsford looks back to the News of the World front page in 2008 which started the war on UK tabloids which has raged since then.</p><p>He also discusses the q...
The rise of paywalls in the regional press with MEN editor Sarah Lester
<p>Press Gazette UK editor Charlotte Tobitt speaks to Manchester Evening News editor Sarah Lester shortly after the UK's biggest regional newsbrand added a premium paywall to its website.</p><br><p>The conversation also covers frustrations with Google, the role of the editor in 2025, the threat of fake experts degrading journalists' relationship with PRs, and more.</p><p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>
How to stop working for your CMS and make it work for you
<p>Dominic Ponsford talks to WP Engine director of product management Jason Konen and CTO of Bigbite Jason Agnew about the future of content management.</p><p>They are both experts in the deployment of WordPress, the world’s most popular content management system. They talked about some of the ways publishers are responding to falling referral traffic by making their websites more immersive and community-focused.</p><p>They also talked about the ways AI is being used to streamline content production and remove complexity in journalists’ lives.</p><p>And they have an interesting debate the importance of ensuring your...
Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips on life after Google
<p>Press Gazette UK editor Charlotte Tobitt speaks to Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips about how the US business brand has changed tack in response to massive changes in the way Google refers traffic to publishers.</p><p>She said: "I think a lot of publishers were in the same spot, or still are in the same spot. And so for us, it's getting back to those core communities and those businesses and our editorial journalism that we take pride in and protect. And so how do we look at that in new revenue models?</p><p>"And as the business...
Turmoil at The Telegraph, trouble at The Times | Misinformation and the Huntington train stabbings
Press Gazette editor-in-chief Dominic Ponsford and UK editor Charlotte Tobitt discuss the latest front in the Telegraph ownership battle, the publication of fake interviews on The Times, and the threat from social media misinformation in the wake of serious incidents like the stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire.<p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>
Optimising programmatic advertising: What publishers need to know
<p>Advertising has funded journalism and kept the lights on for democracy since the steam age.</p><p>But in recent years many publishers have pulled away from relying so heavily on automated programmatic advertising as way of funding free online news.</p><p>In this episode (sponsored by Assertive Yield) the company’s chief operating office Sherzod Rizaev explains some of the challenges publisher face extracting value from an advertising ecosystem filled with intermediaries all taking a cut.</p><p>He says publishers don’t have to passively accept declining revenue but can increase their market share by taking back...
