On our second podcast trip to New York we go back to Small City in Brooklyn for a panel discussion recorded in front of a live audience on 20 October 2016. We were joined by some of the city's most exciting independent food magazine makers, with Claudia Wu from Cherry Bombe, Walter Green from Lucky Peach and Michele Outland and Fiorella Valdesolo from Gather Journal speaking about what they do.

Recorded on 18 October 2016 in front of an audience at the School of Visual Arts in New York, this panel discussion features three of the city's most exciting independent publishers speaking about their magazines. Featuring Ben Yarling from American Chordata, Christopher Isenberg from Victory Journal and Sarah Forbes Keough from Put A Egg On It.

This week I caught up with Jack Self, editor of Real Review, to speak to him about his magazine that won Launch of the Year at our awards ceremony last month. He has a fantastic talent for exploring the structures and forces that shape the way we live, and he spoke about the infrastructures of architecture, politics, publishing and much more. It was a really inspiring meeting, and I'm looking forward to seeing what he'll do in 2017.

This week Supermundane dropped in on the Stack office, so we whipped out the microphone and took the opportunity to record an interview with him. The renowned illustrator and artist was making magazines before Stack even existed, and it was brilliant to hear him reflecting on his work for Anorak and Fire & Knives, and very exciting to discover that he's planning a new print magazine for next year. Listen to our interview, then Google the talk he did earlier this year for It's Nice That. You won't be disappointed...

This week we slip back in time to early September, for a conversation with Danny Miller, publisher of Weapons of Reason and co-founder of creative agency Human After All. The serial magazine maker speaks about the mixture of altruism and pragmatism that runs through his projects, including the Publishing Playbook, a free online resource for anyone who wants to make their own magazine, and of course Weapons of Reason, a magazine that wants to inspire positive action in its readers.

Charlotte Roberts and Bertie Brandes, the two women behind Mushpit magazine, drop in on the Stack office at Somerset House to talk about the making of the crisis issue, and the anxieties that come from doing the thing you set out to achieve.

This week's episode begins on a train to Nottingham, jets off to New York, then ends up back here in my living room in London. And in the middle of it I speak with Mackenzie Peck, editor and founder of Math magazine, the progressive porn quarterly. You won't be surprised to hear that there is a fair amount of adult material in this one, so you might not want to listen along with the kids.

This week we're zipping back across the Atlantic for an interview with Nadia Saccardo from Pallet magazine. We met while I was in New York last month, and I was fascinated by her thoughts on independent publishing and the passion that sees her currently working across craft beer (Pallet) dogs (Four & Sons) and sports (Good Sport). They're all fine magazines, and Nadia is brilliantly eloquent on what makes them so special.

Reporting from the Mod Mag conference in London, we speak with organiser and magCulture founder Jeremy Leslie about what independent means today, and why on earth he takes on the stress and hassle of organising an international magazine event.

This week's episode comes from New York, where I dropped in on Noelle Roth and Matthew Schnipper, art director and managing editor of The Pitchfork Review.