Stephen Jones, Founder of Maro in conversation with Andrew Webb Stephen Jones spent nearly two decades as a working journalist before anyone gave him the data to properly understand whether his work was landing. That experience, building PA Media's analytics function from scratch and learning first-hand how hard it is to make data meaningful to a newsroom, is exactly what Maro is built on. In this session of Stack Sessions, Stephen gets into why publishers are flying blind ac

Robin Booth - Leadership in the Age of AI In this session of the Emerging Tech Network, Robin Booth, outgoing MD of EMAP and incoming CEO of Hemming Group, shares what he's actually learned from leading AI transformation in B2B publishing rather than what sounds good on a slide. The conversation gets into the questions publishers are wrestling with right now. How do you lead change when nobody has a reliable roadmap? When do you build and when do you buy? And what happens to

How do you stay focussed on SEO in the age of AI? Harry Clarkson-Bennett - SEO Director - The Telegraph There's a conversation happening across every newsroom, every boardroom and every publishing leadership team right now. And it sounds something like this: what are we doing about AI? It's a fair question. But Harry Clarkson-Bennett, SEO Director at The Telegraph, thinks we might be asking the wrong one. In this session of the Emerging Tech Network, Harry makes a quietly com

Ludo Blecher has spent 25 years at the sharp end of journalism and media technology from reporter to editor-in-chief at Libération to deploying innovation funding at Google to joining Whitebeard as a Partner. In this first Stack Sessions we get into why publishers can lose the technology battle before they've started, cobbling together disconnected tools that drain budget and create silos. Ludo's answer is an all-in-one platform built by people who've actually worked in news

In our recent Emerging Tech Network session, we were joined by Monica Sarkar to explore one of the most pressing questions facing modern newsrooms: how do you earn the attention and trust of the next generation of news consumers? Sarkar, who leads audience strategy work at CNN, shared insight into how news consumption is rapidly shifting away from traditional destinations such as homepages and towards off-platform environments including social media, messaging apps and short-

An interview with Fergus Bell, CEO of Fathm, for the Emerging Tech Network As 2026 unfolds, AI in newsrooms is shifting from shiny experiment to quietly essential infrastructure. In this wide-ranging conversation, Fergus maps how publishers are moving past prompts and pilots towards real integration, harder ROI questions, and uncomfortable business-model truths. Efficiency gains matter, but they’re no longer the endgame. The real opportunity lies in trust, original reporting,

In episode 13, the Emerging Tech Network explores the fast moving world of data, attention, and audience insight with Samantha Eales, Head of Commercial Audience Data and Insight at Mail Metro Media. Sam talks openly about managing insight across more than 60 advertising channels from print to digital to a rapidly growing social ecosystem and why truly understanding reader behavior now sits at the heart of modern media. She explains how engagement builds attention, how attent

In this episode, Andrew Webb introduces the Network to Ben and Fiona from Reach to unpack the build-or-buy dilemma behind the creation...

In this episode, Sue Macmillan, CEO of Mumsnet, shares her journey from politics to leading one of the UK’s most influential parenting...

In our latest episode of the Emerging Tech Network podcast, I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Linda Broughton , co-founder and...