PodcastCulture
The Gump Media Podcast, episode 1: Print makes you finish things
Two of our editors talk about zines, deadlines and why a page count is the most useful constraint in publishing. A short first episode, with a full transcript.
Culture Editor
Mei Lam
Mei covers independent music, film and publishing. (Sample author profile.)
Stories by Mei Lam
Inside the independent podcast scene: craft over scale
Small audio teams are choosing depth over download counts, and building loyal audiences one carefully edited episode at a time.
What a four-day production week taught one newsroom team
A small editorial team compressed its production schedule to see what would break. Planning, not speed, turned out to be the difference.
The quiet return of the printed zine
Photocopied, stapled and deliberately limited, zines are finding new readers who want something they can hold and keep.