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AgriMedia’s Jean-Paul Reparon on turning a 500-copy hobbyist magazine into a cross-selling engine – and a sector in crisis into a community worth serving. For six or seven years, Dutch agriculture has been locked in political paralysis. Emission reduction targets have put the sector under enormous pressure – too many farms, too many animals, a government talking about halving livestock and buying out farmers. “For a farmer,” he says, “it’s quite difficult to recognise if there is

The latest annual report by the Native Advertising Institute, published in collaboration with FIPP, shows significant revenue growth in branded content last year – an upward curve that is set to continue in 2026. Based on survey responses from over 75 global brand studios, the State of Native Advertising & Branded Content 2026 study – which highlights the current opportunities and challenges within the field – reveals there was more than 18% year-on-year revenue growth in branded co

WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, has appointed Ezra Eeman as Director, AI in Media, reinforcing its commitment to helping news publishers worldwide harness the opportunities of artificial intelligence while navigating the profound changes it is bringing to journalism and the media business. Eeman joins WAN-IFRA from the Dutch public broadcaster NPO, where he served as Director of Strategy & Innovation for the last three years. He has become widely recognised as one of t

Long before Heather Payne was appointed as the Chief Technology and Product Officer of Immediate Media, she adored the company’s magazines.  “Growing up we used to get Radio Times every Christmas and I would go through it and mark everything we were going to watch,” she recalls with chuckle. “I was the youngest of seven, so I would circle stuff and then write an hour-by-hour viewing schedule – that’s how organised I am! “I remember my mom also being a big fan of Good Food and there wa

Now you know the programme is up, let’s have a real good look at who is actually going to be there in Madrid this October. A former Australian Minister for Communications. The Head of Publishing at the UK’s House of Commons. The Group CIO of The Guardian. The CEO of POLITICO Media Group. The Director of Curation at TED. The CEO of FlightStory. Founders, editors and CEOs from South Africa, Vietnam, the Netherlands, India, and a dozen places in between. And that’s just on stag

Flow co-founder and Psychologie Magazine Creative Director Irene Smit on paper as editorial strategy and audience loyalty that runs deeper than subscriptions. Irene Smit still keeps two reader messages on her phone. She has had them since the pandemic, when Flow – the Dutch-founded mindfulness and lifestyle magazine she created in 2008 – paused its international edition and readers around the world wrote in to ask when it was coming back. One said: “We really need your inspiration, hope an

As Chief Digital Officer of ITP Media Group and Executive Director of Complex MENA, Charlotte Cijffers sits across two very different media businesses in one of the world’s fastest-moving markets. Here, she makes the case that the industry’s next competitive edge isn’t reach… but editorial authority. Charlotte Cijffers has spent her career moving between media businesses with very different identities – Dazed Media, Harper’s Bazaar, ITV – and has drawn something distin

With 26 years across African sports media, Gary Rathbone has watched a continent transform from a TV footnote to one of the most significant untapped media markets on the planet. Ahead of the FIPP World Media Congress, he makes the case for why the global industry needs to pay attention. “Africa has been, and remains, the largest media greenfield site on the planet.” Gary Rathbone has been making this argument for most of his career – across journalism, TV production, SuperSport, StarTimes

With the sun setting on the platform era, FIPP’s latest AI report, launched today, aims to act as a guiding light for publishers to help negotiate the path ahead. Built on three years of data, direct reporting and interviews with global leaders in publishing, platforms and regulation, the report is an indispensable roadmap to navigating discovery and distribution in the AI monopoly age. With platforms that organise discovery and distribution becoming advertising monopolies, the landmark re

Ricky Sutton has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to using new technology. “I was the first guy at News Corp with a laptop and a mobile. I’ve just always been someone who wants to try the new toy. It’s an instinct,” he explains. “Accepted wisdom is that journalists do words, and others do numbers, but I love both. “For me there is a fascination that I can do so much more with this laptop. I can be a fully-fledged journalist anywhere. Once you understand my obsession with wor

The Manera founder and former AD España editor-in-chief on precision over scale, international expansion, and what independent publishing can teach the rest of the industry. Enric Pastor started out as a journalist at El Mundo, where he learned “the discipline, the speed, and the pressure to be clear.” A decade at Condé Nast followed, launching and eventually editing AD España, before he left in 2021 to build something of his own.  Manera, the independent design title he launched in

When Ari Assuied, the trailblazing founder and CEO of French digital media streaming platform Cafeyn Group, passed away suddenly in 2023, it fell to Laurent Kayser to lead the company into the future. From the moment he was appointed, Kayser made it clear he would strive to further develop Cafeyn into the “European champion” Assuied had always envisaged. Earlier this year, that dream became a reality. Having made the initial announcement in 2022, Cafeyn finally completed its acquisition of Re

The new FIPP Committee for Kids Trusted Media, an initiative put forward by Yulia Petrossian Boyle, Chair of the FIPP Advisory Board, sets out to establish industry standards for children’s media – and make the case that raising the next generation of readers is one of the most strategically important things the publishing industry can do to continue having lifelong readers of trusted media. Today’s children are consuming more media than any generation before them, and less of it

After 21 years at the BBC and senior roles at Culture Trip and Ringier, Dmitry Shishkin now advises major media organisations. Here he argues that the industry’s most urgent problem isn’t AI, declining trust or commercial pressure – it’s the inability to accurately name what’s actually wrong. His  move to independent advisory work was, Dmitry Shishkin says, deliberate – a way to work across more organisations at the moment when outside perspective is most valuable. And as a result he has

Reeva Misra founded Walking on Earth after identifying workplace stress as the upstream cause of chronic disease. Here, she makes the case that managing human capacity isn’t a wellbeing initiative – it’s the most strategically important thing a media leader can do. 86% of workers report regular workplace stress. 45% are operating at chronic levels. As stress compounds, health claims increase two and a half times and sick leave eightfold. “That’s not a people problem,” says Reeva Misra, founde

Reeva Misra founded Walking on Earth after identifying workplace stress as the upstream cause of chronic disease. Here, she makes the case that managing human capacity isn’t a wellbeing initiative – it’s the most strategically important thing a media leader can do. 86% of workers report regular workplace stress. 45% are operating at chronic levels. As stress compounds, health claims increase two and a half times and sick leave eightfold. “That’s not a people problem,” says Reeva Misra, founde

“Journalism and factual, independent reporting are always important, but more so today than ever before,” says Megha Garibaldi, Chief Growth Officer at The Atlantic, as she contemplates the continued impact of the 169-year-old magazine’s investigative articles. “And I think The Atlantic is providing that value to readers in terms of bringing incredible long-form journalism from writers who are truly fantastic.” Recent reporting from The Atlantic’s team of reporters has thrust the American mag

This October, the FIPP World Media Congress returns to Madrid with a programme built around a question: what are the fundamentals that will carry the industry forward? Here are some of the topics that will be under discussion across three days of sessions, case studies and conversations. 1. The audience comes first The publishers building for the long-term are the ones who understand that owning a relationship with a specific, loyal audience is a fundamentally different proposition from ag

You can’t build anything without solid foundations.  This year, we’re getting into the new fundamentals of what makes media businesses thrive, hearing from people who are figuring it out in real time. We’ve been building the programme for a while now and it’s time to tell you more. The FIPP World Media Congress brings together industry leaders from across the world – publishers, editors, founders, strategists – for three days of honest conversations

Exploring innovative ways publishers can better engage, convert and retain their audiences, the Audiencers Festival returns on 25 June with Montréal hosting the event for the first time. The Festival, created by B2B media platform and community Audiencers, will cover a range of timely topics, including monetising niche communities; what media companies can learn from the subscription economy; how to marry customer needs with business growth; and the role AI is playing in helping newsrooms bui