Culture / Media / Policy / AI

Media & editorial strategy

Create media products, editorial systems and audience propositions that make complex ideas matter.

Media & editorial strategy

Questions we help address.

How should a media offer be positioned? Which audiences should it prioritise? What role should each format and distribution channel play? How can revenue, production capacity and editorial quality be brought into a coherent plan?


What an engagement can include.

Positioning and editorial offer. Audience needs, differentiation, editorial priorities, formats and the role of each channel.

Business models. Revenue options, funding dependencies, cost structure and conditions for financial sustainability.

Organisation. Editorial and production workflows, responsibilities, planning and coordination between teams.

Development. Assessment of a new offer, a partnership, a territory or an audience segment.


Outputs.

Depending on scope: a positioning brief, an editorial framework, a business-model assessment, a distribution plan, an operating model or a development roadmap.

The work can include workshops and support for decision-making. Ongoing publishing, production and community management are defined separately when needed.


A connection to practice.

Our connection with QLM Media brings the practical questions of editorial work, audience development and production into the discussion. The responsibilities and scope of each organisation are made clear for every engagement.


How we start.

An initial discussion clarifies the offer, its audiences, the available evidence and the decisions to be made. We then define a scope adapted to the organisation’s resources.


GFMD / 2023

Media viability:
from global policy to local action.

PENCILS was a local implementing partner for the Tunisia consultation, alongside Al Khatt and PAMT 2, in the GFMD / UNESCO-IPDC initiative.

Read the consultation report (EN) ↗

PENCILS

What are you
working on?

A programme to design. An organisation to transform. A media product to launch. Let’s clarify the opportunity and shape the next move.