Peter Houston

Puzzles, podcasts and AI-assisted article read-outs are just some of the techniques Stylist and the Daily Mail are using to 'habit stack' in their apps and make each interaction as engaging as possible. Felicity Thistlethwaite and Debora Hedy Amato t...

Frustrated that she couldn't break into women’s magazines, Tobi Oredein decided to do her own thing. That was Black Ballad, now the leading lifestyle publication for and by Black women in Britain. In the 12 years since it launched it has evolved from...

The struggle is real: falling traffic, AI summaries and unreliable social media referrals are pressuring publishers of all stripes. For many, building direct audiences is a key goal. For the Guardian, with supporters delivering 45% of its revenue, di...

Liz Settle joined Hearst UK’s Good Housekeeping magazine in 2023 and over the last three years, she’s changed a lot at the 104-year old brand. Last year was a great year for the magazine and looking ahead, she believes the tides are turning in our fa...

It’s pretty easy to convince magazine fans that print is worthwhile, but it can be more difficult to bring around hard-nosed publishing managers. Here are 10 arguments you can make to help you stop managing decline and get your boss on board with a l...

This feature has been written in partnership with Bridged Media. Hear more in the Media Briefs episode with Sharon Roessen, Chief Operations officer at Terrapin, discussing how the global events organiser has worked with Bridged Media to develop a se...

For 2026’s second season of the Publisher Podcast, we spoke to more than a dozen leading media practitioners about their work: where they’ve found success, what they’ve found hard and which challenges they are looking forward to tackling next. Fr...

For 2026’s second season of the Publisher Podcast, we spoke to more than a dozen leading media practitioners about their work: where they’ve found success, what they’ve found hard and which challenges they are looking forward to tackling next. Fr...

When Lily Barclay joined Good Food Magazine as a digital assistant, print dominated the title’s output. Now, Barclay is content director for Immediate Media’s Food Group and print is just one part of her muti-platform, multi-brand portfolio. This ...

Outside magazine once set the gold-standard for long-form journalism about life outdoors. These days, it sits at the centre of a media ecosystem designed to inspire and guide people from the first tentative steps of their journeys outdoors to celebra...

Like every big story, the arc of the zero-click narrative varies depending on who is telling it. Each of the three sets of protagonists in this tale - search users, Google and content creators - think about zero-click very differently, as Peter Houst...

The World Behind the Cup is the latest short-run newsletter series from The Guardian. The paper’s Head of Newsletters, Toby Moses, explains how the publisher’s strategy for pop-ups - and newsletters more generally - has evolved over the five years th...

There is no doubt that the era of AI Overviews has arrived and the rise of zero-click search has brought the potential to completely transform how content is discovered, consumed and monetised. In this extract from our new report, The Zero-Click Cont...

What is zero-click search, and does it really pose an existential threat to the publishing business? Our new report, The Zero-Click Content Shift, aims to answer exactly that question. Produced in association with Woodwing and authored by MediaVoi...

Lauren Holleyoake is publisher of three of Bauer UK’s most iconic glossy magazines. She is also the lead for the company’s bookazine business, launching titles like Your Definitive Guide to the Masters from Today’s Golfer. That might seem like a mism...

Charlotte Owen is the Editor-in-Chief of the millennial women’s media brand Bustle and the EVP of Editorial for its parent company, BDG. Rather than see her portfolio role as a challenge, she sees it as a ‘gift’ now that the ‘weird era’ of trying to ...

Ismail Akwei is the editor of Global South World (GSW), a news brand founded in 2023 to build a more informed and nuanced understanding of the Global South. Its mission is to ‘counter parachute journalism and condescension’ with news and opinion from...

More than a century old, Variety has transformed from a B2B pure play to a hybrid business and consumer publication. Publisher and co-president Dea Lawrence explains how this shift has helped the entertainment industry’s paper of record thrive throug...

This is the best time in decades to take advantage of a revived interest in printed magazines. How you make the most of the print opportunity will depend on the markets you work in. As part of our report into the Print Revival, Peter Houston takes a ...

Whatever the talk of a print revival, no one would pretend that publishing a printed title is without its challenges. Peter Houston breaks them down, and what to consider to overcome them, in this feature from our report into The Print Revival. In...