Épisodes

  • Personisation is paying off for Hamberger Morgenpost
    Sep 24 2025

    Hamberger Morgenpost head of product Dana Schluenzen tells Dominic Ponsford how offering readers a personalised selection of homepage stories has paid off with higher click-throughs and more returning visitors. This podcast also features insights from the CEO of website personalisation specialist Kilkaya, Tarjei Gilbrant.


    This episode is sponsored by Kilkaya.

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    27 min
  • Why The Economist isn't doing deals with OpenAI
    Sep 18 2025

    Unlike many publishers, The Economist has chosen not to do any licensing deals with the likes of OpenAI - but isn't looking to sue them either.


    The Economist's president Luke Bradley-Jones appeared at Press Gazette's Future of Media Technology Conference in London and explained how the brand is adapting for a "post-search world", including by launching one of its newsletters on Substack.

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    37 min
  • Reach versus Newsquest, publishers versus AI and the break-up of Google
    Sep 10 2025
    In which Charlotte and Dom discuss: the latest mass job cuts at Reach, the latest attacks on journalism from AI bots and what the proposed break-up of Google's adtech business could mean for publishers.

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    30 min
  • How the Kyiv Independent built 20,000 paying members in a warzone
    Jul 31 2025
    Kyiv Independent launched in November 2021, just three months before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here chief operating officer Zakhar Protsiuk talks to Press Gazette editor-in-chief Dominic Ponsford about building a 70-strong team out of nothing, funded mainly by reader revenue, and the ways they have had to constantly reinvent their model.

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    40 min
  • How The Times became a small screen success story
    Jul 16 2025
    Times Media head of digital Edward Roussel talks about the relaunched smartphone app which is now the title's most important platform commercially. He also explains why The Times will never use AI to create journalism and why publisher homepages have got far too busy.

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    37 min
  • On the front line of the reality wars with Rob Waugh
    Jul 3 2025
    Rob Waugh talks about the shadowy figures who are successfully bombarding UK news media with fake content. Fictional experts and non-existent experts are conning their way into UK news media with the help dodgy PR companies. It's a lucrative business providing search engine juice to gambling sites and dubious online retailers. And it won't stop until publishers raise their game in terms of verifying the sources they quote.

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    28 min
  • Video masterclass with PA Media's Joe Pickover
    Jun 10 2025
    UK national news agency PA Media has massively ramped up its video output in recent years and is able to provide live video feeds of news events across the country. Here PA head of video Joe Pickover explains how publishers can make video work for them in a podcast edition which is presented by Press Gazette in association with PA Media.

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    38 min
  • Death of the website, the never-ending pivot to video and why Dom loves Substack
    May 22 2025
    'The death of the website' was the name of one panel session at a recent publishing industry conference. Press Gazette editor in chief Dominic Ponsford and UK editor Charlotte Tobitt discuss the latest challenges posed to publishers by Google changes and the rise of social. They also analyse the latest publisher pivot to video (more a never-ending pirouette) and Dominic explains why he has become an unpaid brand ambassador for Substack.

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    28 min