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Splice Pink

Pink is where we have quick conversations with people across the global media ecosystem: media startup founders, tech, data, and design folks, investors, journalists, media development funders and donors, product managers, and academics.

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5 steps towards change management in newsrooms

How do you introduce change into a newsroom? Jane Mahoney of Private Media in Melbourne, Australia, has a five-step plan.

  1. What problem are you solving?

  2. Educate everyone, make sure they understand the products you're bringing in.

  3. Empower everyone, make sure they understand their place in the business and how they can help drive everyone towards success.

  4. Have some goals in place to actually measure what success looks like.

  5. Create a team of advocates

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Here are the three golden rules on how to market a news subscription product

We've been following Jane Mahoney over the past couple of weeks as she sets up her new reader revenue team at Private Media in Australia.

In this episode, she talks about how to market a news subscription product — running campaigns, working with editorial, and testing.

Hosted and produced by Rishad Patel, co-founder of Splice.

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MDIF Ventures preps $1 million fund to invest in emerging media startups

MDIF launched a $1 million fund to support early stage media startups around the world. We spoke with Mohamed Nanabhay, Deputy CEO at Media Development Investment Fund about the fund's objective, and why they're launching it now.

Hosted and produced by Alan Soon, co-founder of Splice.

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How do you onboard a new hire in your reader revenue team?

Jane Mahoney is Head of Reader Revenue at Private Media in Australia, which owns the popular Crikey, Smart Co, and The Mandarin masthead. We've been following Jane over the past couple of weeks as she sets up her reader revenue team at the company.

In this little episode, she talks about how she onboards a new hire — it's all about getting the mindset right. Great little bits of knowledge in here.

Hosted and produced by Rishad Patel, co-founder of Splice.

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Private Media's Jane Mahoney on what makes a great candidate for a reader revenue job

Jane Mahoney is Head of Reader Revenue at Private Media in Australia, which owns the popular Crikey, Smart Co, and The Mandarin mastheads.

We've been following Jane over the past couple of weeks as she sets up her reader revenue team at the company. This week, we check in on her to find out what's she's looking for in terms of talent.

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Jane Mahoney begins the reader revenue journey with a little Reader-Rev 101, team diversity, and willingness to pay

Jane Mahoney is Head of Reader Revenue at Private Media in Australia, which owns the popular Crikey, Smart Co, and The Mandarin mastheads.

When Jane Mahoney at Private Media in Melbourne signed up for our newsletters a couple of weeks ago, she said she was about to set up a reader revenue practice for her company. Obviously we was excited; we asked if she would talk us through her journey and the process every week — a little reader revenue nerd-fest on Splice Pink.

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Jane Mahoney takes us on a reader revenue transformation journey at Australia's Private Media

Jane Mahoney is Head of Reader Revenue at Private Media in Australia, which owns the popular Crikey, Smart Co, and The Mandarin mastheads. This is a new role for her after four years as Associate Publisher at Crikey.

Jane describes herself on LinkedIn as a “big nerd for reader-funded journalism, data-driven everything, subscription marketing and news product. Always keen to talk about journalism, country music and sport.”

We never got to country music — but we’re keen to check in to see what she’s doing on reader revenue. This is the start of what we hope would give us a front-row seat on Private Media’s new projects. She’ll be taking us on this journey of transformation here on Splice Pink.

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Questions you've always wanted to ask funders (but were too afraid to ask)

What is opex? Why don't funders respond to my emails? Can I buy a car? We asked funders the questions that media start-ups have always to wanted to ask, so they don't have to. In this episode, we interviewed Kevin Brockland of MDIF, Shuwei Fang of Open Society Foundations, Sasa Vucinic of North Base Media, and Helle Wahlberg of IMS.

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