What's New in Publishing

Aug 9, 2023 | whatsnewinpublishing.com | Peter Houston

We just published the second issue of The Grub Street Journal, a magazine for people who make magazines. The path that led us to make a print magazine is fairly long and winding and we won’t bore you with it here. We will, however, share what we learned in the run-up to launching Issue 1, The Don Quixote Issue, in April this year and through launching Issue 2, The Jerry Maguire Issue, on August 1st. 1: Know your motivationsThere are three things that make any job worth doing: Money. Learning.

Aug 2, 2023 | whatsnewinpublishing.com | Esther Kezia Thorpe

A new guide aims to help reporters and editors manage projects more effectively within the newsroom. The guide’s author Robin Kwong discusses what he’s hoping to achieve, and how staff can get buy-in on projects they want to kickstart. Project Management in Newsrooms is published by the Association for Project Management, and aims to help anyone interested in practising project management in a newsroom environment to do so effectively.

Jul 18, 2023 | whatsnewinpublishing.com | Peter Houston

AI could be the most ruthless disruptor the news business has ever faced, and it could also be the industry’s best hope to save and sustain itself. Tech entrepreneur Ricky Sutton believes that explosive public adoption and the industrialisation of plagiarism mean inaction is simply not an option for publishers. As a journalist-turned-AI entrepreneur I have a front-row seat to the tech-tonic shifts that are driving change in the media.

Jul 2, 2023 | whatsnewinpublishing.com | Peter Houston

Jun 22, 2023 | whatsnewinpublishing.com | Chris Sutcliffe