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The Carousel, Game Changers and Women Love Tech deliver the latest tech and lifestyle news, reviews and trending information for women. Leading these publications is editor, publisher and owner, Robyn Foyster.

She joins Influencing Insider next Thursday 3rd October at 1pm to discuss:

About Robyn Foyster

Robyn is an Australian media trailblazer having been the only person to edit and publish The Australian Women’s Weekly, Woman’s Day and New Idea. She is currently the owner and publisher of the tech and lifestyle websites The Carousel, Game Changers and Women Love Tech.

About Women Love Tech

Women Love Tech is a website that gives women everything they need when it comes to the latest tech news, best apps and podcasts, product reviews, cool gadgets or what’s streaming. It has been a finalist at the Australian IT Journalism Awards on multiple occasions.

About The Carousel

The Carousel is a women's lifestyle site with expert news and advice across fashion, beauty, health, food, home, parenting, and sustainability. Dedicated to inspiring you to lead your best life emotionally, physically, and sustainably.

About Game Changers

Game Changers in-depth interviews with inspirational people gives men and women a platform to share their incredible career achievements, fascinating insights and personal journeys. Our aim is to inspire everyone to tap into their full potential, make a difference and be a Game Changer.

The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age Lifestyle and Health section covers all things including Fitness, Diet, Babies and other day to day life activities. Leading their coverage is Sarah Berry, Lifestyle Health Editor for SMH/The Age.

She joins Influencing Insider on Thursday 26th September at 1pm to discuss:

About Sarah Berry

Sarah has been Lifestyle Health Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age since 2016, previously working as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald while also previously working at ACP Magazines and at The Australian Woman’s Weekly Magazine.

Have you heard?! Weird Tech Media has officially been launched! 🚀

Tune in for a very special episode of Influencing Insider where we'll be looking at Weird Tech: the brand new offering from award winning duo Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones.

Co-founder and Co-CEO Tegan Jones joins us this Friday 6th September at 2pm - you can get ahead and download the brand new Weird Tech media kit attached here.

Can’t make it? No worries, register anyway to learn how to access the replay afterwards.

About Tegan Jones

Tegan is a Senior technology journalist with SmartCompany. Prior to her present role, she was the Editor of Gizmodo Australia and Global reviews editor at Finder. An award-winning journalist, she has been reporting on technology, telecommunications and gaming for the past 10 years, and regularly appears on mainstream media channels as an expert tech commentator. Her previous roles include Reporter and Editor across Business Insider, Lifehacker and Kotaku Australia.

Did you miss us?! We sure missed our audiences 😊

Now Mi3 seeks to build conversations around consumer trends, brands, marketing, agencies, media, CX, martech, e-comm and adtech. That's a LOT of ground, so we're looking forward to speaking with Senior Journalist Kalila Welch this Thursday 29th August at 1pm to discuss:

About Kalila Welch

Kalila Welch is the Senior Journalist of Agency and Media at Mi3 Australia. She was previously at Mumbrella. She currently takes charge of overseeing the daily AI-powered newsletter, Fast News editions, while also covering news and features for agency. Welch has a solid background in the media and marketing space, and an analytical lens for the trends, challenges and opportunities in the industry.

About Mi3 Australia

Mi3 is designed to be different in its conversations bridging consumer trends, brands, marketing, agencies, media, CX, martech, e-comm and adtech. Our editorial mandate is to provide intelligent and challenging perspectives from industry on the key themes that are shaping it now and into the future.

Sharing stories of women in tech, startups and the world of work; The Club explores the awkward, eye-roll moments and the inconveniences that only women seem to have to deal with.

Co-founder and Editor Stephanie Palmer-Derrien joins us on Influencing Insider this Thursday 4th July at 1pm to discuss:

About Stephanie Palmer-Derrien

Palmer-Derrien is a freelance writer, journalist and word person, specialising in startups, tech and small business. Stephanie is also the co-founder and editor of The Club as well as media advisor at Newsary. She was previously startups and technology editor at SmartCompany, and deputy editor at Black Knight Media in London, working on financial services trade publications. She has also dabbled in travel and lifestyle journalism.

About The Club

The Club is a fortnightly newsletter created by Marie Dowling and Stef Palmer-Derrien, two business buddies navigating the tech, startup and small biz world with toddlers in tow. They're here to amplify the voices of those making it work, so you know you’re not doing it alone.

This week we welcomed to the show Gina Rushton, Author & Editor for Australia's best independent news publication Crikey!

Gina joins us on Influencing Insider this Friday 21st June at 1pm and will discuss:

About Gina Rushton

Gina is currently editor of independent news and analysis website Crikey. She has worked as a journalist for a decade holding reporting or editing roles at Nine, Australian Associated Press, AAP FactCheck, The Australian and BuzzFeed News. She has also been published in The Guardian, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, The Monthly, The West Australian, Business Insider Australia, O&G Magazine and The Saturday Paper.

About Crikey

For over 20 years, Crikey set out to explain and dissect the news agenda for an intelligent, sceptical, socially and politically aware audience. Their readership of 2.5 million each year expects more than just to read the news – they want to understand the news from a truly independent perspective. Independent from the mainstream media, and in some instances, independent from their own views.

Come join us on Influencing Insider next week as we sit down with The Australian Financial Review's Rear Window Editor Myriam Robin, Thursday 13th June at 1pm to discuss:

About Myriam Robin

Robin started in journalism in 2011 at small business publication SmartCompany, where she became deputy editor. She moved to Crikey as a media reporter in 2013 and was hired as a financial markets reporter at the Financial Review in 2017. She became a Rear Window columnist later that year.

About The Australian Financial Review

The Australian Financial Review is Australia's only national financial newspaper, and as such is considered one of the country's leading authorities on business, finance and political news. Every day, The Australian Financial Review uses its vast international resources to bring readers the latest in world news and global business trends.

"Cosmopolitan Australia’s vision is clear: to uplift, empower, and champion women while having an absolute blast doing it."

The much loved Cosmopolitan magazine will return to our shores after a six year hiatus in August. Leading this charge is editor-turned-publisher powerhouse Katarina Kroslakova.

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan Australia and T Australia, Kroslakova sits down with us on Influencing Insider next Thursday 6th June at 1pm to discuss:

About Katarina

Kroslakova is a former journalist and editor-turned-publisher of Cosmopolitan Australia and T Australia: The New York Times Style Magazine. She was the editor of The Australian Financial Review's Life & Leisure lifestyle supplement, a role she assumed in 2010 having contributed on a freelance basis to the publication prior to that. Katarina writes about food and wine, fashion, retail, jewellery, beauty and grooming, design, architecture, property, motoring, sport, the arts, philanthropy, travel and health.

About Cosmopolitan Australia

Lifestyle publication Cosmopolitan is set to return to the Australian market after six years with a local dedicated print edition released in Spring. The return of Cosmo Australia is led by publisher Katarina Kroslakova’s local publishing house KK Press in collaboration with Hearst Magazines International.

Lifestyle Editor for The Australian and Freelance Journalist Sophie Howe join us on Influencing Insider next Friday 31st May at 1pm to discuss:

About Sophie

With over 10 years of experience as a beauty, lifestyle & wellness journalist, Sophie has worded with brands such as THE ICONIC, NET-A-PORTER, and Are Media. Her work involves curating and showcasing beauty and lifestyle offerings, creating effective content strategies, and covering topics ranging from skincare, makeup, and haircare to wellness, sustainability, and lifestyle.

About The Australian

For over half a century, The Australian has been the country’s most trusted source of news, insight, analysis and opinion.The daily newspaper provides a full breadth of coverage across politics, business, sports, entertainment, technology, lifestyle and breaking world news.

Designed like a glossy magazine page, gloss etc delves deeper than an Instagram caption, but is snappy enough for today’s time-poor women, delivering an edit of the best beauty products, tips and expert advice, straight to their inbox.

Co-founder's Sarah Tarca & Sherine Youssef join us on Influencing Insider next Thursday 23rd May at 1pm to discuss:

About Sarah & Sherine

With more than four decades of industry experience between them, ex-marie claire beauty directors, Sarah Tarca and Sherine Youssef have long been the go-to girls for family and friends looking to cut through the clutter and find products that work.

About gloss etc

gloss etc, is a weekly beauty newsletter, a platform where Sarah and Sherine can share honest advice and reviews in a way that’s relevant for the modern reader and consumer. Launched in November 2020, gloss etc's newsletter has over 4K subscribers and averages a 60% open rate and 222K monthly impressions.