Peter Houston
@magazinediaries.com
Magazine maker, magazine talker, magazine reader, magazine stalker
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This week’s cover story 👉 SIGN OF THE TIMES | Frances Kelly is arrested for breaking Britain’s dumbest law
🔗 Read the full story: buff.ly/BE58Wag
🗞️ Get your copy from a local newsstand from Thursday 2nd October
🔗 Read the full story: buff.ly/BE58Wag
🗞️ Get your copy from a local newsstand from Thursday 2nd October
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This week’s cover story 👉 SIGN OF THE TIMES | Frances Kelly is arrested for breaking Britain’s dumbest law
🔗 Read the full story: buff.ly/BE58Wag
🗞️ Get your copy from a local newsstand from Thursday 2nd October
🔗 Read the full story: buff.ly/BE58Wag
🗞️ Get your copy from a local newsstand from Thursday 2nd October
Loving this BofE Canadian government crossover episode
Mark Carney to be next Canada PM after winning Liberal leadership race
Mark Carney to be next Canada PM after winning Liberal leadership race
Former central banker will be only second prime minister in Canadian history without a seat in parliament
Mark Carney, the former central banker who oversaw the response to financial crises in North America and the UK, will become the next prime minister…
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Loving this BofE Canadian government crossover episode
Lest we forget. JD Vance too.
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Lest we forget. JD Vance too.
I met my younger self for a coffee today and he told me to do one... he had way better things to do than listen to some old guy.
February 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I met my younger self for a coffee today and he told me to do one... he had way better things to do than listen to some old guy.
This week's Magazine Diaries newsletter is out...
What's the point in magazine industry associations?
Hearst UK's CEO says it's about fighting together for the things we all hold dear
magazinediaries.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This week's Magazine Diaries newsletter is out...
I interviewed Hearst UK CEO Katie Vanneck Smith.
We spoke about Tortoise and the Observer, all things magazine membership - belonging, branding and bundling - and the importance of publishing teams.
We spoke about Tortoise and the Observer, all things magazine membership - belonging, branding and bundling - and the importance of publishing teams.
Hearst's Katie Vanneck Smith on making magazine memberships successful
This week on The Publisher Podcast we speak to Katie Vanneck Smith, CEO at Hearst UK. Katie's career spans The Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph, as well as co-founding Tortoise. In the...
voices.media
February 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I interviewed Hearst UK CEO Katie Vanneck Smith.
We spoke about Tortoise and the Observer, all things magazine membership - belonging, branding and bundling - and the importance of publishing teams.
We spoke about Tortoise and the Observer, all things magazine membership - belonging, branding and bundling - and the importance of publishing teams.
Adding the Seer thing to the Traitors final destroyed a great season. Lost interest after Charlotte inevitably went. Stopped caring who won. Disappointing.
January 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Adding the Seer thing to the Traitors final destroyed a great season. Lost interest after Charlotte inevitably went. Stopped caring who won. Disappointing.
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The broader narrative of politics is no longer really between left and right. It's sensible and stupid, and the stupid side is winning the fight.
January 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The broader narrative of politics is no longer really between left and right. It's sensible and stupid, and the stupid side is winning the fight.
I'm not a joiner, but I've just signed up to the Patreon for the Origin Story podcast from @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social . Stumbled across it in November and have binged pretty much every episode. And now I get to hear them give the @dailymail.co.uk a kicking a week early.
December 13, 2024 at 2:54 PM
I'm not a joiner, but I've just signed up to the Patreon for the Origin Story podcast from @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social . Stumbled across it in November and have binged pretty much every episode. And now I get to hear them give the @dailymail.co.uk a kicking a week early.
I was on @charlotteahenry.bsky.social's Addition podcast chatting on about how passion is a great starting point, but profit is where the rubber really hits the road.
Passion or Profit? – With Peter Houston - The Addition
Peter Houston joins the show to discuss the compromises that need to be made between pasion and profit, and how to strike a balance.
theaddition.net
December 12, 2024 at 12:57 PM
I was on @charlotteahenry.bsky.social's Addition podcast chatting on about how passion is a great starting point, but profit is where the rubber really hits the road.
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The Big Issue’s shift from street paper to campaigning digital title
The Big Issue's shift from street paper to campaigning digital title
Editor Paul McNamee says The Big Issue has broadened its focus from homelessness to poverty amid a digital shift.
buff.ly
December 12, 2024 at 10:19 AM
The Big Issue’s shift from street paper to campaigning digital title
It's that time of the holiday season when I need to take a break from the Christmas playlists and get back to normality for a wee bit.
Quiet Little Voices
We Were Promised Jetpacks · These Four Walls (10 Year Anniversary Edition) · Song · 2019
open.spotify.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:24 AM
It's that time of the holiday season when I need to take a break from the Christmas playlists and get back to normality for a wee bit.
Conde going in the opposite direction from The Atlantic with Wired UK, but at least there are no layoffs being reported.
Wired UK to go quarterly and merge teams with global editions
Tech magazine Wired UK is dropping from a bimonthly to a quarterly print schedule, it has told subscribers.
pressgazette.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Conde going in the opposite direction from The Atlantic with Wired UK, but at least there are no layoffs being reported.
It's beginning to look a lot like I've started playing Christmas songs 🎄
The Christmas Song
The Raveonettes · The Christmas Song · Song · 2003
open.spotify.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:34 PM
It's beginning to look a lot like I've started playing Christmas songs 🎄
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Last call for our Media Voices Pod in a Pub livestravaganza tomorrow! If you're around in London and fancy getting a pint and taking part in a live recording of an episode Media Voices, there are one or two tickets still available here:
voices.media/podinapub/
voices.media/podinapub/
Pod in a Pub: Media Voices Live Podcast & end of year drinks
Come and join the Media Voices team for a look back at the year in media in podcast form...of course!
Timings:
5.30pm: Festive buffet and drinks
6pm: Live podcast recording
6.45pm - 8pm: Hangi...
voices.media
November 26, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Last call for our Media Voices Pod in a Pub livestravaganza tomorrow! If you're around in London and fancy getting a pint and taking part in a live recording of an episode Media Voices, there are one or two tickets still available here:
voices.media/podinapub/
voices.media/podinapub/
Twitter is an absolute toilet these days, but I miss having somewhere to post proper random nonsense. LinkedIn just doesn't feel like the right place to post about chair dancing to The Sisters of Mercy's 'Lucretia My Reflection' 🖤
August 28, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Twitter is an absolute toilet these days, but I miss having somewhere to post proper random nonsense. LinkedIn just doesn't feel like the right place to post about chair dancing to The Sisters of Mercy's 'Lucretia My Reflection' 🖤