Media Voices podcast: Positive News' Sean Dagan Wood on building membership around constructive journalism

This episode, we hear from Lucy Kueng. She’s one of the go-to names for macro and micro industry analysis, a Google Digital News Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and has a tonne of other roles in the industry that allow her to see the bigger picture.

Having a salesperson who really understands the format is critically important to branded content, according to journalist and digital media expert, Fara Warner.

In this episode of the Media Voices podcast Mathew Ingram, media writer for the Columbia Journalism Review, explains why publishers need to take a more human approach to their memberships, the role of platforms in disrupting those relationships, and whether 'trust' is a meaningful metric.

Social media has been open to the masses since the launch of platforms like Myspace in the early 2000s. Since then social networks offered a playground for billions of people to share, exchange and discuss content and ideas.

As South Asia warms up to ecommerce, magazines are getting in on the act. Say hello to mcommerce.

The team behind Bauer’s weekly TV listing title TV Choice magazine are to launch a brand new magazine dedicated to the 80s.

A year after its launch Facebook is finally rolling out its new video service, Facebook Watch, across the globe. Yet its expansion arrives at an intriguing time for the video market. There are the first signs that the hegemony enjoyed by YouTube for nigh on a decade is now potentially under threat, not just from Facebook, but from multiple rival platforms.

Social media has been open to the masses since the launch of platforms like Myspace in the early 2000s. Since then social networks offered a playground for billions of people to share, exchange and discuss content and ideas.

Converting visitors on news sites to paying customers is today the focus of media houses around the world. By opening up a new digital revenue stream, alongside advertising, total digital revenue can increase. But that requires content that makes readers log in to the site and – preferably – become paying, recurring customers.