Influencing Insider

ORIGINALLY AIRED: 07/11/24

Australia and New Zealand’s leading multi-channel publisher, Are Media has been producing content across lifestyle, entertainment, fashion, beauty and food for over eight decades.

Overseeing the lifestyle & food at Are Media is Head of Digital - Lifestyle, Jayde Malifa. She joins us on Influencing Insider next Thursday 7th November at 1pm to discuss:

• The digital titles under Are Media - and what their audience connects with
• How to share your news content with Are Media, and how digital differs from print
• The best way to reach out to Jayde

ORIGINALLY AIRED: 30/01/25

The first Influencing Insider of the year sees Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson, award-winning tech journalist for the Australian Associated Press, join host Mike Woodcock on Thursday 30th, January at 1 pm to discuss: 

• What is the best way to work with tech journalists? 
• What particular topics are relevant in the tech/renewable energy sector?
• What makes a good news pitch to an AAP journalist. ?

About Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson 

Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson is a journalist for the Australian Associated Press, focusing on topics such as renewable energy and AI. A journalist for over 25 years, Jennifer also worked in the newsrooms of the Courier Mail and was NewsCorp’s National Technology Editor for 13 years. 

About the APP

The Australian Associated Press is one of Australia’s longest-running media agencies, having been published since 1935. With over 90 journalists in locations across Australia and New Zealand, the AAP provides “trusted news” to its readers. 

ORIGINALLY AIRED: 29/05/25

Renewable energy and electric cars - many say that’s our future and thanks to two online publications, RenewEconomy and The Driven you can stay fully informed about all the cutting edge technology reshaping our future. 

And who better to talk to about this than Giles Parkinson, founder of both those publications and an ex-deputy editor of The Australian Financial Review. 

Join us this coming Thursday May 29 at 1pm when we welcome Giles to discuss:

• The future - what does it look like?
• How do publications best cover emerging technologies?
• What are the hot topics in the EV and renewable energy areas?
• And how should PRs approach RenewEconomy and The Driven?

About Giles Parkinson:

Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of Renew Economy, and of its sister sites One Step Off The Grid and the EV-focused The Driven. He is the co-host of the weekly Energy Insiders Podcast. Giles has been a journalist for more than 40 years and is a former deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review. 

Artificial Intelligence is becoming the most dominant topic of discussion in today’s landscape, impacting everybody. Therefore, it makes it a perfect topic to discuss for Influencing Insider’s end-of-year roundtable. Join technology journalist Chris Griffith, AI Australia Podcast host Emma Bromet and AAP Editor Andrew Drummond, along with host Tony Bosworth, on Thursday, 4th December at 1 pm AEDT to discuss:

• How AI is changing the media landscape
• How it can be harnessed for positive impact
• The latest AI trends shaping the industry and the year to come

Mum Central is hugely successful and has 1.1 million Facebook followers, 36.5k on Instagram, 1.6k on X, and 29.6k on TikTok.

Areas covered will include:

• How did Belinda begin Mum Central?
• Its use of social media in growing its audience
• What topics is Mum Central interested in?
• How Mum Central interacts with PRs
• How you PRs pitch story ideas to Mum Central.

About Belinda Jennings

Belinda Jennings is the founder, owner and managing editor of Mum Central. Belinda has worked in the media/marketing industry for over 25 years and is now channeling all that knowledge and experience as both an industry professional and mum of two teenage boys into Mum Central and fellow publications Mum’s Pantry and Australian Baby Bargains.

Information Age, published by The Australian Computer Society, is at the forefront of technology issues reporting, and we’ve got IA’s senior technology journalist Tom Williams joining us on Wednesday, November 12 at 2 pm.

We’ll be covering a broad range of areas with Tom, including:

• Who is Tom Williams and how did he get started?
• What topics are Information Age interested in?
• How does Information Age operate within the Australian Computer Society
• How PRs can pitch and connect with Information Age.

Award-winning journalist Marc Dodd joins Influencing Insider on Thursday, October 23 at 1pm when he will be talking about online news, including how it is changing, what works now, and what the future holds for both print and online journalism.

Marc is Editor of Nine.com.au, part of the Nine Digital News Team, and he began his career in the UK as Assistant Sports Editor for the Metro newspaper, before moving to Australia in 2011.

In 2015, he contributed to The Australian’s win of the inaugural Kennedy Award for Outstanding Online News Breaking for digital coverage of the Philip Hughes tragedy, and in 2017, as mobile editor at The Australian, he was part of the team that won Mobile Site of the Year at the Australian Newspaper Awards.

More recently, he guided the Nine.com.au team to the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Online News Breaking in 2020 and 2021, for the bushfire and flood crises reporting.

Trade media is evolving, and Lindsay Reed at DCN - Daily Cargo News is leading the charge! Join us on Thursday, 16 October at 1 pm for an Influencing Insider with Tony Bosworth and Lindsay to unpack: 🎙️ How DCN went from a weekly newspaper to a contemporary magazine🎙️ Lessons from launching and sustaining a weekly podcast🎙️ The importance of industry awards🎙️ And the future of freight and logistics media

After a short break, Influencing Insider is back — and we’re kicking off with a big name.

Fiona Ellis-Jones, Head of News & Information at ARN joins us on Influencing Insider.

📅Date: Thursday, 18th September 2025

🕗Time: 1pm

📍Online: register below

Fiona is an experienced newsreader, journalist, and media executive and today leads a large team of journalists at ARN. 

In this session, Fiona will cover:

• The changing face of media and how newsrooms are adapting

• How ARN covers news across its metro, regional and digital audio platforms

• Live audience Q&A 

On Thursday, August 14th  at 1:00pm AEST, we’re sitting down with Scott Purcell, co-founder of Man of Many the men’s lifestyle outlet that started in a spare bedroom in 2012 and has grown and built a global audience:

• Man of Many the origin story

The future for digital publications and what the key drivers are

• Topics the publication is interested in, and what’s hot right now

• How Man of Many is developing and growing - the secrets to its success