Best Publishing Workflow Podcasts (2025)

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Media Briefs: WoodWing’s Jeroen Goemans on using AI for measurable workflow upgrade 15:51

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Most publishers know they should be doing more with AI, but the gap between strategy decks and the reality of nightly, weekly or even monthly publishing deadlines is huge. This is the latest in our Media Briefs series of short, sharp sponsored episodes with a senior executive from a vendor working with publishers to make their businesses better. In…

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2025 highlights from media leaders, and our outlook for 2026 25:21

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In our end-of-year episode, we talk through a busy year at MediaVoices, and outline what our favourite interviews from the year have been and why. Peter highlights chats with DC Thomson's Rebecca Miskin and Immediate Media's Sean Cornwell, who shared their strategies for managing disruption and transformation. "You control what you can control. You…

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#529: Computer Science from Scratch 1:17:00

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A lot of people building software today never took the traditional CS path. They arrived through curiosity, a job that needed automating, or a late-night itch to make something work. This week, David Kopec joins me to talk about rebuilding computer science for exactly those folks, the ones who learned to program first and are now ready to understan…

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Podbean Amplified S2|E7 - How Niches Build Powerful Podcasts ‪⁨ 30:32

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Ready to level up your marketing strategy for your podcast? On this week's episode of Podbean Amplified we invited Todd Eury, founder and host of the Pharmacy Podcast Network, the leading audio platform for pharmacy professionals. 🎙️💊 Uniting industry experts, innovative voices, and powerful conversations, PPN continues to shape the future of healt…

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DC Thomson's Rebecca Miskin on the secrets of successful business transformation 32:04

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This week's guest is Rebecca Miskin, CEO of family-owned Scottish publisher DC Thomson. Peter caught up with Rebecca at FIPP Congress in October ahead of her presentation, titled The Gnarly Reality of Transformation. One of DC Thomson's iconic brands is The Beano, a children's comic-magazine that's been published since the 1930's. Gnarly is very mu…

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#528: Python apps with LLM building blocks 1:16:46

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In this episode, I’m talking with Vincent Warmerdam about treating LLMs as just another API in your Python app, with clear boundaries, small focused endpoints, and good monitoring. We’ll dig into patterns for wrapping these calls, caching and inspecting responses, and deciding where an LLM API actually earns its keep in your architecture. Episode s…

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Mediahuis' Liesbeth Nizet on engaging and monetising younger audiences 21:10

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Our guest on The Publisher Podcast this week is Liesbeth Nizet, Head of Future Audiences Monetization at Mediahuis, a media group with a presence in Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany and Luxembourg. In her role, Liesbeth is focused on next-generation audiences, and helping build future-proof business models that bridge editorial purpose an…

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Podbean Amplified S2|E6 -Why You're Not Getting Attention on Your Content 21:30

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Ready to level up your marketing strategy for your podcast? On this week's episode of Podbean Amplified we invited Mark Todd of @markizmarketing to talk about digital marketing for creators, coaches and entrepreneurs grow and scale their business.By Podbean

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The Atlantic's Megha Garibaldi on growing subscribers in a challenging landscape 21:07

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In this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast, we're joined by Megha Garibaldi, Chief Growth Officer at The Atlantic. Megha leads the consumer revenue vertical, including consumer marketing, and she helped lead The Atlantic to its milestone of 1 million paid subscribers and reaching profitability in 2024. She spoke to Esther at FIPP Congress abou…

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#527: MCP Servers for Python Devs 1:06:25

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Today we’re digging into the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Think LSP for AI: build a small Python service once and your tools and data show up across editors and agents like VS Code, Claude Code, and more. My guest, Den Delimarsky from Microsoft, helps build this space and will keep us honest about what’s solid versus what's just shiny. We’ll kee…

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Kyiv Independent’s Zakhar Protsiuk on its campaign-led approach to audience growth 39:15

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Launched on November 11th 2021, just three months before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kyiv Independent (KI) is four years old. The award-winning English-language media outlet covers Ukraine and Eastern Europe for the rest of the world, and is celebrating its birthday with a campaign designed to boost its membership from 22,000 to 25,000 by the…

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Podbean Amplified S2|E5 - Do What You Love, Delegate the Rest 24:55

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On this week's episode of Podbean Amplified Shae and Ericka interview Michelle Hon of @thechillmom. She's an author and entrepreneur helping moms turn passion into purpose and profit.💰By Podbean

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Communiqué's David Adeleke on turning a newsletter into a sustainable media business 33:33

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In this week's episode of The Publisher Podcast, we're joined by David Adeleke, founder and CEO of Communiqué, a media business that analyses African media and its creative economy. Communiqué started out as a newsletter, but now runs live events and publishes research about the scope of the creator economy across the continent. We last spoke with …

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#526: Building Data Science with Foundation LLM Models 1:07:24

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Today, we’re talking about building real AI products with foundation models. Not toy demos, not vibes. We’ll get into the boring dashboards that save launches, evals that change your mind, and the shift from analyst to AI app builder. Our guide is Hugo Bowne-Anderson, educator, podcaster, and data scientist, who’s been in the trenches from scalable…

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Podbean Amplified S2|E4 - Building a Collaborative Workflow 28:24

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On this week's episode of Podbean Amplified Shae and Ericka interview Got Spice? Show Podcast! Gregory Yates & Kirti Naik shares why it is important to build a structure with your partner.By Podbean

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Building Adaptive Learning Ecosystems: Where Human Wisdom Meets Artificial Intelligence 30:05

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Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, Director of IIM Kozhikode, joins Nikesh Gosalia to explore how AI is transforming higher education from teaching and learning to research to leadership and ethics. With a blend of global experience and philosophical insight, he shares why adaptability matters more than AI-savviness, how to preserve human wisdom in a tech-…

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#525: NiceGUI Goes 3.0 1:17:46

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Building a UI in Python usually means choosing between "quick and limited" or "powerful and painful." What if you could write modern, component-based web apps in pure Python and still keep full control? NiceGUI, pronounced "Nice Guy" sits on FastAPI with a Vue/Quasar front end, gives you real components, live updates over websockets, and it’s runni…

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Highlights from FIPP Congress 2025: "An existential moment" 53:34

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Over 500 media and publishing professionals gathered in the beautiful Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid to hear leading speakers discuss their strategies for thriving in today’s landscape. ChatGPT, AI overviews and traffic challenges are certainly top of mind for many delegates, but the on-stage conversations haven’t been quite as dominated by AI a…

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#524: 38 things Python developers should learn in 2025 1:09:15

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Python in 2025 is different. Threads really are about to run in parallel, installs finish before your coffee cools, and containers are the default. In this episode, we count down 38 things to learn this year: free-threaded CPython, uv for packaging, Docker and Compose, Kubernetes with Tilt, DuckDB and Arrow, PyScript at the edge, plus MCP for sane …

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Financial Times' Juliet Riddell on finding new ways to tell stories using video 24:44

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This week's guest on The Publisher Podcast is Juliet Riddell, Head of New Formats at the Financial Times. Her focus is on telling stories using video, and she spoke to Peter following the September release of the 13-minute film, Recall Me, Maybe, written by comedian David Baddiel and starring Stephen Fry and Gemma Whelan. Juliet talks about why a n…

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The Next Chapter in Scholarly Publishing: Building an Equitable Open Access Future 32:14

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In this episode of Insights Xchange, Mandy Hill, Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press, reflects on three decades in publishing and the accelerating shift toward open access. She discusses the Cambridge Open Equity Initiative, the role of journals and why equity must be central to the future of scholarly communicati…

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#523: Pyrefly: Fast, IDE-friendly typing for Python 1:07:00

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Python typing got fast enough to feel invisible. Pyrefly is a new, open source type checker and IDE language server from Meta, written in Rust, with a focus on instant feedback and real-world DX. Today, we will dig into what it is, why it exists, and how it plays with the rest of the typing ecosystem. We have Abby Mitchell, Danny Yang, and Kyle Int…

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Like the Wind magazine's Simon Freeman on 'niche-ification' and sustainable indie magazine publishing 32:00

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This week's guest on The Publisher Podcast is Simon Freeman, Publisher at Like the Wind, a quarterly print magazine dedicated to exploring the culture, history and social issues in the world of running. They are also a blueprint for sustainable indie magazine publishing. Simon spoke to Peter as part of the research and writing for Inside the Print …

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What makes video work for magazine publishers? 22:40

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From conceptualization to execution, Crowdfindervideo's Simon Elliott shares his expertise on what makes video work for magazine publishers, providing valuable insights and practical tips for industry professionals. In this video podcast, recorded live at the Publisher Podcast Summit, Peter Houston and Simon Elliott discuss the significant benefits…

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The Open Access Movement: Are We Truly Prepared for a New Paradigm in Scholarly Communication? 38:50

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A candid, clear-eyed look at open access with Colleen Campbell about how libraries are shifting from paying for reading to funding open publishing and why equity, transparency and author rights must anchor the transition. Social media links Nikesh Gosalia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikeshgosalia/ https://x.com/NikeshGo Colleen Campbell: https://w…

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#522: Data Sci Tips and Tricks from CodeCut.ai 1:09:32

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Immediate Media's Sean Cornwell on investing in AI experimentation, innovation and upskilling 27:43

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This week's guest on The Publisher Podcast is Sean Cornwell, CEO of Immediate Media. Sean will be speaking to Colin Morrison at our November AI Forum in London, discussing what AI means to Immediate. There are still tickets left but we're anticipating selling out, so head here to book and for more info on speakers and Masterclasses. Immediate is so…

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Podbean Amplified S2|E3 - Share Stories That Connect With Your Audience 37:37

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On this week's episode of Podbean Amplified Shae and Ericka interview Traci DeForge from Produce Your Podcast! Traci shares why it is important to please your listeners first and not everyone else. New Episodes now air every other Monday on our Youtube page and all other audio podcasts platforms.By Podbean

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#521: Red Teaming LLMs and GenAI with PyRIT 1:02:40

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English is now an API. Our apps read untrusted text; they follow instructions hidden in plain sight, and sometimes they turn that text into action. If you connect a model to tools or let it read documents from the wild, you have created a brand new attack surface. In this episode, we will make that concrete. We will talk about the attacks teams are…

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The PPA's Mel McVeigh on the evolution of publisher products in a fragmented ecosystem 35:38

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This week's guest on The Publisher Podcast is Mel McVeigh, Head of Digital at the Professional Publisher's Association (PPA). Mel has been at the PPA for the last 18 months, and her role is to support digital thinking within the organisation and its members. Mel recently worked with Enders Analysis on a report - Consumers, creators, and brands: Rew…

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As AI Redefines Research and Users Demand More, Can Scholarly Publishing Platforms Become Strategic Allies? 57:04

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In this thought-provoking episode, we sit down with Will Schweitzer, CEO of Silverchair, to explore the rapidly changing landscape of scholarly publishing platforms. With decades of experience spanning product leadership, publishing strategy, and platform innovation, Will offers an unfiltered look at the industry’s most pressing challenges—and wher…

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#520: pyx - the other side of the uv coin (announcing pyx) 1:00:11

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A couple years ago, Charlie Marsh lit a fire under Python tooling with Ruff and then uv. Today he’s back with something on the other side of that coin: pyx. Pyx isn’t a PyPI replacement. Think server, not just index. It mirrors PyPI, plays fine with pip or uv, and aims to make installs fast and predictable by letting a smart client talk to a smart …

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People Inc.'s Neil Vogel on positioning for success in a complicated AI era 35:55

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In this episode of The Publisher Podcast, People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel talks about the power of print - as long as you're not sentimental about scale - how advertising is very much alive, and why Google is 'the worst guy' when it comes to publishers and AI. He also discusses the rebranding from Dotdash Meredith and why it's important to have a name w…

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Podbean Amplified S2|E2 - LIVE at Podcast Movement (Day 2) 31:42

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Tune as Shae and Ericka continue their amazing interview series at the biggest podcasting conference in the country! You won't want to miss the gems from this episode. Make sure to follow and subscribe to Podbean Amplified across all channels so you never miss new episodes featuring exclusive interviews of top podcasting industry experts.…

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Human-AI Collaboration in Editorial Workflows: A Framework for Responsible Innovation 50:59

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AI is rapidly changing the landscape of scholarly publishing—from detecting image manipulation and plagiarism to assisting with reviewer matching and assessing statistical rigor. But as these tools become more embedded in editorial workflows, they also raise serious questions around bias, transparency, and ethical oversight. In this episode, Dr. Ch…

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#519: Data Science Cloud Lessons at Scale 1:02:56

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Today on Talk Python: What really happens when your data work outgrows your laptop. Matthew Rocklin, creator of Dask and cofounder of Coiled, and Nat Tabris a staff software engineer at Coiled join me to unpack the messy truth of cloud-scale Python. During the episode we actually spin up a 1,000 core cluster from a notebook, twice! We also discuss …

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Responsible Peer Review: Building Systems That Work 44:06

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This episode of Insights XChange dives deep into the evolving landscape of peer review and the responsibility publishers carry in building systems that are fair, fast, and future-ready. Guest Lucy Threadgold, Peer Review Manager at Emerald Publishing, shares how Emerald revamped its reviewer pools, introduced structured feedback systems, and is pri…

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Flow Magazine's Irene Smit on her 'paper, not print' philosophy 31:59

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In this episode, Peter Houston interviews Irene Smit, the co-founder of Flow Magazine. As you’ll see from this episode’s title Irene’s founding philosophy for the mag was that of paper over print. What’s the distinction? Well, for Irene print is effectively a vector for information – it’s commodity news, or glossy lifestyle features, or whathaveyou…

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Podbean Amplified S2|E1 - LIVE at Podcast Movement 26:59

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Tune in as we unveil season 2 of Podbean Amplified!! Shae and Ericka interview top industry leaders about their tips and tricks to grow a successful podcast. You are not going to miss this one!By Podbean

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The Publisher Summits: Why Reach turned to Substack for newsletter expansion and experimentation 21:20

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This is the latest in a series of sessions from The Publisher Summits, which were held in June. The Summits covered four product areas across 2 days in London, from newsletters and print to apps and podcasts, featuring speakers from The Economist and the FT to Reach, National World, Grazia and more. Thanks to the sponsors of the Publisher Newslette…

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The Publisher Summits: How The Economist and Financial Times manage personality-driven newsletters 39:12

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This is the latest in a series of sessions from The Publisher Summits, which were held in June. The Summits covered four product areas across 2 days in London, from newsletters and print to apps and podcasts, featuring speakers from The Economist and the FT to Reach, National World, Grazia and more. Thanks to the sponsors of the Publisher Newslette…

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#518: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators 1:08:13

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Twenty years after a scrappy newsroom team hacked together a framework to ship stories fast, Django remains the Python web framework that ships real apps, responsibly. In this anniversary roundtable with its creators and long-time stewards: Simon Willison, Adrian Holovaty, Will Vincent, Jeff Triplett, and Thibaud Colas, we trace the path from the L…

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The Publisher Summits: How Hearst UK and Stylist use app extra features to enhance reader relationships 32:39

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This is the latest in a series of sessions from The Publisher Summits, which were held in June. The Summits covered four product areas across 2 days in London, from newsletters and print to apps and podcasts, featuring speakers from The Economist and the FT to Reach, National World, Grazia and more. Thanks to the sponsors of the Publisher App Summi…