Podcast 60: How to make local news pay with Newsquest CEO Henry Faure Walker
In a rare interview, Faure Walker discusses the state of the industry, ads, subscriptions and AI.
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Newsquest CEO Henry Faure Walker on bucking the trend of regional press decline
Online paywalls, AI experiments and local ad sales all came up in the rare interview.
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Newsquest boss says local journalism needs ‘proper help now’ from Government to survive
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Parent company celebrates Newsquest’s 60 per cent year-on-year traffic increase as well as digital and circulation revenue rises
Newsquest’s parent company has revealed that the regional publisher’s websites have seen their total traffic increase by more than 60…
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