Welcome to The Indie Hustle
- a brand-new Substack brought to you by the team at Indielab
Written by experienced journalists, this newsletter is designed for indie producers, creatives, and execs who want more than the noise - they want clarity, strategy, and real growth. Our mission? To decode the complex trends shaping our industry and deliver them as clear, actionable insights each week.
Expect smart takes on funding strategies, commissioning trends, co-productions, back catalogue monetisation, and emerging opportunities in digital, branded entertainment and beyond. We’ll bring you practical how-to guides, exclusive interviews with decision-makers, and fresh perspectives on how to futureproof your business.
The Indie Hustle isn’t just a newsletter - it’s an indie vitamin shot. One built for indies who hustle smarter, and you’re invited.
Subscribe below and get the inside track on the TV and digital-first industry - funding, deals, strategy, delivered weekly.
Our freelance writers
The Indie Hustle is written by a team of experienced journalists. Each contributor brings deep sector knowledge and an insider’s perspective shaped by years of reporting on the UK television and digital-first content industries.
Tara Conlan (Editor)
Tara Conlan has been writing news and features about media for The Guardian since 2005 and was previously the Daily Mail’s TV Editor and TV columnist. She has also penned columns for The Observer Media & Business section and Grazia and worked on the Evening Standard and Daily Mail city desks and Londoner’s Diary.
Other newspapers and broadcasters she's contributed to about media and the arts include the Sunday Times, The Times, The Independent, Radio Times, Variety, The British Journalism Review, The Journalist, Radio 4’s The Media Show, The Media Podcast, the Today programme, BBC Ten O’Clock News, ITV’s News at Ten, BBC News Channel and LBC.
Tara began in journalism on The Stage newspaper and was a reporter and news editor for Broadcast magazine, which she still contributes to.
She has hosted sessions at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, for BAFTA and TV conference Content London. Tara is also a juror and writer for the Royal Television Society, an executive committee member of the Broadcasting Press Guild and has been a consultant for the newspaper industry’s marketing body Newsworks and TV industry body ScreenSkills.
Pippa Considine
Pippa is a media journalist. As well as contributing to The Indie Hustle Substack, she is an associate editor at Televisual Media, contributes to RTS Television Magazine and works with the International Broadcast Convention. She’s been a judge for The Grierson British Documentary Awards, the IBC Accelerator Awards and was on the advisory panel for Soho Media Club's Be You Festival. She’s also worked at Campaign, Marketing Week and the Daily Mail. Outside of TV, she writes profiles of alumni from Girton College, Cambridge.
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