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How journalists can become media consultants, with Ramaa Sharma

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A former BBC executive with 17 years at the broadcaster shares how she made a career change into consultancy - and how you can too

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Brian Whelan from Times Radio on growing a successful YouTube news channel

The digital radio broadcaster has amassed 1m subscribers on the social video platform - but a vanity metric does not pay the bills. We learn that revenue comes from longer watch time and reaching the right markets

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How did women's magazines from the 1970s remain relevant?

Franki Cookney and Lucy Douglas of the Mag Hags podcast take a flick through 50 years of glossy magazines and examine what has - and has not - stood the test of time

Sky News producer and psychotherapist James Scurry: 'Journalists are a decade behind the latest knowledge about mental health'

Depression, schizophrenia and narcissism are all terms that are widely misunderstood and misreported, allowing myths to persist and those affected to feel hopeless

Posted by Jacob Granger on 10/10/24

Why The Lincolnite closed down, with Daniel Ionescu

The independent local news organisations innovated plenty and invested heavily. But in the end, there was not enough public support to keep it going

Posted by Jacob Granger on 03/10/24

Dmitry Shishkin, new CEO of Ringier Media International, on leading growth across 80 media brands

Shishkin plans to align diverse newsrooms and tackle the challenges of expanding into new markets with a clever internal document that brings audience and data teams on the same page

Posted by Jacob Granger on 26/09/24

Rachel Duffy, senior social media editor of The Telegraph, on using Reddit for news

Sub-reddits, karma, AMAs and more all jargon-busted and explained how they can help your newsroom get closer to highly engaged audiences

Posted by Jacob Granger on 20/09/24

Tackling new challenges for data journalism, with DC Thomson's Lesley-Anne Kelly and Ema Sabljak

How do you sort through murky ownership data when telling stories about vacant high street properties in Scottish cities?

Posted by Jacob Granger on 05/09/24

How to smash a fundraising campaign target, with Eliz Mizon of The Bristol Cable

The independent, co-operative local news organisation just hit its target to increase membership revenue by £60k in one year

Posted by Jacob Granger on 29/08/24

How writing fiction has helped me deal with PTSD, with Northern Irish journalist Leona O'Neill

Writing a story about a supernatural hero serving justice to those whose crimes have gone unpunished helped Leona cope with witnessing the senseless murder of her peer, Lyra McKee

Posted by Jacob Granger on 22/08/24

Maria Breslin, editor of The Liverpool Echo, on covering the Southport stabbings and UK riots

"We're still here when the national media goes home, so the weight of responsibility is quite heavy"

Posted by Jacob Granger on 14/08/24

Media analyst Thomas Baekdal: 'News publishers must stop fighting for the scraps of ad revenue'

As Google decides not to phase out third-party cookies after all, the news industry needs to reinvent its advertising model instead of competing with big tech head-on

Posted by Jacob Granger on 08/08/24

Oliver Rouane-Williams of Ipswich.co.uk: 'I spent my life savings on launching a local news site'

A radical alternative to local newspapers has just launched in Suffolk: its writing is Axios-inspired, its domain names cost £25k and it has no ads, paywalls or cookies

Posted by Jacob Granger on 30/07/24

Five podcast and newsletter lessons from leading publishers, with Media Voices

News organisations of all sizes can dip into niche topics and tap into to specialist audiences by going direct to people’s inboxes and earbuds

Posted by Jacob Granger, Esther Kezia Thorpe, Peter Houston on 22/07/24

Banseka Kayembe of Naked Politics, on engaging Gen Z with political journalism

It is not enough to report on what is happening with politics. Young people want actionable information delivered to schools and colleges

Posted by Jacob Granger on 11/07/24

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