InPublishing Magazine: September/October 2026

InPublishing magazine deep dives into publishing strategy through its in-depth articles and special features.

Our mission is to help senior executives at newspaper and magazine publishers publish better content, engage fully with their audiences and make more money.

Whatever your publishing channel – print or digital – each issue will arm you with inspiration, insight and actionable takeaways for you to apply to your own businesses.

The September/October issue includes the following in-depth articles:

• Time to make a stand: Press freedom in the US is under sustained government attack, says James Evelegh.
• Environmental reporting: Much of it is too narrowly focused on what it covers and the solutions it offers, Geoffrey Lean tells Ray Snoddy.
• The personal touch: Teams and WhatsApp are all fine and well, but you can’t beat actually meeting face-to-face, says Claudine Collins.
• Humanity or media jobs? Which will AI kill off first? Dickon Ross ponders AI’s likely impact on the media business.
• Fix the foundations first: Data products have huge revenue earning potential but only if the underlying data is properly structured, says 67 Bricks.
• Happy 40th Prima: Editor-in-Chief Jo Checkley tells Laura Silverman about the magazine’s past, present and future.
• Newsletter strategy: Email should be treated as a platform with its own content, acquisition and monetisation strategy, says Berkok Yüksel.
• AI Special: Leading publishers & suppliers tell us how publishers are using AI in practice.
• Sex Pistols vs Pink Floyd: The output of two very different bands perfectly illustrates the new approach to product development, says John Barnes.
• Explaining the world around us: At a time when their analysis has never been more needed, science writing is under existential threat, reports Alan Geere.
• Power of the written word: Podcast business Goalhanger is launching newsletters to deepen engagement and build direct connections.
• BPiP takeaways: James Evelegh picks out a top tip from each of the articles in the launch issue of Best Practice in Publishing.
• First things first: Before doing deals with AI companies, you need to think through your AI strategy, says Sajeeda Merali.
• Digital Horizons: Terry Hornsby: Reach’s chief product and technology officer’s priority is helping their journalists produce more vertical video.
• Industry Voice: Simon Redlich: The ABC chief executive tells us why the twin assets of trust and quality are now more important than ever.
• Appointments: Our regular pictorial look at some of the key appointments in the publishing sector since our last issue.
• Back to the future: To try and make sense of media’s present and future, Jim Bilton is delving back deep into its past.