27% of people globally now get news from creators every week. Nic wrote the chapter. He's here to explain what that number actually means and what publishers keep getting wrong when they read it.

Kerstin and Nic cover the four creator ecosystems the report maps and why the «bring them to our platforms» logic is structurally broken.

And yes Kerstin also asked Nic what it actually feels like to hand something over you built from scratch.

Find the full report here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2026

Emily doesn't just run The B-Side, she is The B-Side. She co-writes the content, films videos - and she is the face of the product. Sometimes literally: she once ran a stretch of the Boston Marathon to test whether you can churn butter while jogging. (Turns out: You can.) In this conversation, she talks about building a media product inside a legacy organization with almost no team, what it takes to earn the trust of an audience that has never paid for news, and what happened when the journalist and the brand became the same person.

In this episode, Kerstin Hasse sits down with the journalist who built one of the most loyal young audiences in American news media – from inside a legacy newsroom, with a small budget, no blueprint, and a platform his colleagues weren't sure they should be on. Dave Jorgenson and her talk about what it actually takes to grow an audience, why loyalty follows people and not mastheads, and what most publishers still refuse to understand about how trust works. And Dave reveals whether there was anything – anything at all – that could have made him stay at the Post.

In this episode, Kerstin Hasse talks to Kristin Ward Heimdal, who leads PodMe, Schibsted's paid podcast platform. They discuss why Schibsted started investing in the start-up, what happened when they first tried a hard paywall, and why the true crime genre is now being developed closer to the newsroom rather than acquired from independent creators.

Kristin also explains what actually drives young people's willingness to pay — and why the answer has less to do with format and more to do with what publishers are trying to sell them.

If your organization is still treating paid audio as a side experiment, this conversation is worth your time.

Guest: Kristin Ward Heimdahl, Head of Podme

Host: Kerstin Hasse, Young Audiences Initiative Lead, INMA

Kerstin Hasse is talking to Aleksandra Janevska, Deputy Head of Crossmedia at Der Spiegel, about what it takes to restructure a newsroom from the inside and what happens when you stop organizing by medium and start organizing by format instead.

They discuss what's working, what Der Spiegel decided to stop, including a podcast ending after two years and what that process revealed about making editorial decisions with clarity. They also dig into fact-checking as a format and why "Sagen, was ist" – say what is – turns out to be not just a founding editorial principle, but a natural fit for the platforms where young audiences are. Plus: the growing role of on-camera personalities, and what it looks like when a major investigative story goes viral across every platform at once.

This conversation was originally recorded as a live INMA Young Audiences Initiative webinar. Listen, share, subscribe! More infos about the International Media Association and the Young Audiences Initiative supported by Knight Foundation at inma.org

Guest: Aleksandra Janevska, Deputy Head of Crossmedia, Der Spiegel

Host: Kerstin Hasse, Young Audiences Initiative Lead, INMA

In this episode, I'm talking to Liv Moloney, Head of Video at The Economist, about the full journey — from launching on TikTok in 2022 with a single video editor to 360 million video views across platforms in 2025, and then bringing it all back into their own app.

We talk about why The Economist took TikTok seriously when many legacy newsrooms still dismissed it, how they navigate putting individual faces on camera in a publication famous for having no bylines, who's actually watching (younger and more female than you'd think), and whether vertical video is really a "young audience play" — or something much bigger.

This conversation was originally recorded as a live INMA Young Audiences Initiative webinar. Listen, share, subscribe! More infos about the International Media Association and the Young Audiences Initiative supported by Knight Foundation at inma.org

Guest: Liv Moloney, Head of Video, The Economist

Host: Kerstin Hasse, Young Audiences Initiative Lead, INMA