Wednesday 29th May: Shortlist announced for the Publisher Newsletter Awards 2024

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At the risk of sounding like a LinkedIn post, I am delighted to share with you the shortlist for the second year of the Publisher Newsletter Awards. the shortlist spans 16 categories, including Best B2B, Food & Drink and Entertainment & Culture newsletters, as well as Newsletter Launch and Newsletter Hero of the Year.

The 100-plus newsletters on the shortlist come from publishers of all shapes and sizes, from global news operations to local indie publications. The winners will be decided by a line-up of 40 judges, an equally diverse group that includes newsletter executives from the FT and National World and creators like Edinburgh Minute founder Michael MacLeod. The winners will be revealed at a ‘summer party’ awards ceremony in London on 23rd July 2023.

Our Awards coordinator Joanna Cummings said, “We’ve had some genuinely brilliant entries this year. We were particularly excited to see the number of great launches in the last 12 months, proving that publishers are really embracing newsletters as a way to build on relationships with their audiences.”

This is a fairly broad survey by The Reuters Institute and highlights a significant variation in public expectations surrounding how different professions will use generative AI. Half the people surveyed trust scientists and healthcare professionals to use it responsibly. But less than one-third trust social media companies, politicians, and news media to use generative AI responsibly. The starting point for publishers trying to build trust will be to label content where generative AI has been used - 95% of respondents wanted some form of disclosure.

Did you delete the BBC’s ‘WHAT NOW?’ alerts during the pandemic? Well it looks like you need to turn them on again if you want to keep up with the 7 million Britons relying on notifications to let them know what’s going on in the UK’s election. Writing in the Guardian, Jim Waterstone says, “This election could be the one where these alerts become recognised as the digital equivalent of the newspaper front page, blaring a top-line summary of an event to the public.”

I interviewed Hannah Storm about improving the mental health of people who work in the media a couple of years ago. Since then, she’s facilitated conversations with hundreds of journalists from around the world and in this extract from her recently published book she offers a wonderful reminder for publishing bosses trying build a more open, healthier, better performing culture. She writes, “Empathetic managers tend to recognise that the people who work with them are humans and not cogs in a machine.” 👏👏👏

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