Julian Price, founder and editor of online gaming publication Quest Daily, says the publication's mission is to share what they love. Speaking to Influencing Insider last Thursday, Price said, “we’re all volunteers. Gaming journalism is a pretty hard industry to crack. So we do this because we love it, we’re passionate about it, and it’s in addition to our full-time jobs.” As a result of having that volunteer set-up, Price notes while the publication aims to produce content daily, the amount of content varies.  “We try to be consistent with it. That’s the key for us,” Price said. “For example, this week and last week, I’ve just come off the back of reviewing Assassin’s Creed Shadows, a massive game that was recently released.” Price said the team is, “always looking to add a unique take on a particular topic."  “It's often the side content we produce in relation to the games we cover that seem to take it forward and get even the most clicks online.

Influencing today announces the shortlisted technology executives who have been considered for our inaugural Top Newsmaker Award. As is the methodology with our Media Relations Award, we asked technology journalists to nominate the technology executives or spokespeople they most valued working with during the past year. In judging the winner, we have then analysed their commentary in the media over the past year given the context of their nomination. The Top Newsmaker champions open and honest discourse between the technology industry and its media, said Influencing CEO Phil Sim. “This Award was inspired by many conversations with our 2024 Pioneer of IT Media, Len Rust, who has long bemoaned the fact that technology executives have become too timid to talk frankly with media about the industry,” Sim said. “Our industry is too important, and there are too many big issues not to have Australian technology executives that journalists can count on to provide honest comme

    Queensland Premier David Crisafulli will unveil the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic venues and infrastructure plan at The Courier-Mail’s Future Brisbane event today - Tuesday.  More than 300 decision-makers and industry leaders will be present at what is set to be one of the most significant sporting announcements for Brisbane since winning the bid to host the Olympics and Paralympic Games almost four years ago.  The Queensland Premier will announce the venue plan in conversation with The Courier-Mail Editor Chris Jones. That will be followed by a discussion between Jones and Brisbane 2032 Organising Committee President Andrew Liveris.  Courier-Mail Editor Chris Jones.   The Sunday Mail Editor Melanie Pilling will also host a panel featuring Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie, Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner, Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate, Brisbane Lions CEO Greg Swann and Olympic swimming champion Cate Campbell. “The Courier-Mail has a long and proud histo

In the space of a few days, private equity firm Regent acquired two of tech media's most iconic publishers - the IDG portfolio of titles, and TechCrunch. What does that mean? Will Regent merge the operations and what direction might it take both publishers? In short: Likely that TechCrunch and Foundry will operate independently Regent can leverage Foundry software stack across media portfolio TechCrunch's large audience will increase first-party data pool Regent not known for quick flips, more likely looking to extract cash flow over long period of time That should see editorial prioritised over short-term profits and be good for journalists at both mastheads Foundry background The Foundry acquisition was first mooted by Axios in January. Foundry emerged as the re-branded IDG media portfolio after IDG Communications was acquired by private equity firm Blackstone. That portfolio included titles PC World, Computerworld, CIO and Macworld. After acquiring IDG, Blackstone e

When media entrepreneur Dilip Singh began his career as a journalist decades ago, independent television journalism was still a few years away and people who did not prefer to stick to government narratives had to get video magazines to get an independent take on the news of the day. "Like you had a text magazine like India Today and others, many outlets launched video magazines. India today also launched one called News Track. There was this video magazine called Vision Point, largely the Indian diaspora. Every month, we would work on different story, collect information and compile the story. At the end of the month, we'll make the master, and then we will have to go to the censor board to get their clearance. Only then only we could take out the copy in VHS, which could then go to the video parlour or people who had VCR. People having TV and VCR could only afford to see video magazine," Dilip Singh recalled. His first video story, an exclusive interview with the chief of the