InPublishing Magazine: January/February 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 January/February issue includes the following in-depth articles:

• Going direct: For too long, publishers have relied on big tech to connect with their audiences. It’s now time to cut out the middleman.
• Fit for purpose: IPSO regulation is relevant for print, digital, AI generated material, podcasts, videos and even UGC, says Charlotte Dewar.
• Industry Voice: Sajeeda Merali: The PPA CEO tells us why government and industry must work together in the face of AI depredations.
• Picture power: If a picture is worth a thousand words, why do many photojournalists feel under threat?
• Digital Horizons: Peter Barr-Watson: The Independent’s CTO on why the news media sector is moving into the liberating era of the ‘agentic harness’.
• Eating our lunch, again: Big tech, specifically AI search, is hugely disrupting publishers’ business models, laments Dickon Ross.
• Newsworks Awards 2025: Context is king when it comes to successful ad campaigns. Kara Osborne looks at the winning entries from the awards.
• Deep and meaningful: If your reader relationships are superficial and fleeting, expect to struggle. It’s all about engagement, says Sarah Ebner.
• Takes nerve: Launching a news brand is not for the faint hearted. Sarah Donaldson tells Meg Carter why she and four others have done it.
• Clearer voice & greater reach: Philip Collins recently took over from Alan Rusbridger as editor of Prospect. He tells us his plans.
• Purposeful publishing: Building community and purpose can give publishers a competitive edge, says Dominic Lobley.
• Bring them onboard: Influencers are providing stiff competition to traditional media; Future’s response is to collaborate with them.
• Press freedom in the age of Trump: In his second term, the US president has turbocharged his attacks on the mainstream media, including on the BBC.
• Appointments: Our regular pictorial look at some of the key appointments in the publishing sector since our last issue.
• Confidence slipping? The good news: publishers are confident about the future. The bad news: they are less confident than they were two years ago.