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Ascential in a spin
Nothing is yet clear but Ascential Plc, the UK-listed information, analytics, events and eCommerce optimisation company, may be forced to postpone its plans for a breakup as a result of…
21 July 2023
2 minute read
UK B2B veteran bounces back
Graham Sherren, the veteran British publisher who built the 42-year-old Centaur Media into a £140mn listed company in the heyday of B2B magazines, is back. He and Piers Diacre – former Centaur…
21 July 2023
3 minute read
How I do it: Nick Shelton, Broadsheet
Nick Shelton is owner-founder of the 13-year-old Broadsheet Media in Melbourne, Australia, which self-describes as “the authority on the cultural life of your city”. It’s a digital brand, with…
21 July 2023
8 minute read
How email reinvents B2B media
The Aging Media Network – a US-based digital B2B player focused on the aging population – was this month acquired by WTWH Media. The enterprise value of the $13mn-revenue / $3.3mn-EBITDA…
14 July 2023
9 minute read
How I do it: Scott McCafferty, WTWH Media
Scott McCafferty is co-founder and CEO of the 17-year-old Cleveland, Ohio-based WTWH Media ("Willing to Work Harder"). He and co-founder Mike Emmich had met as advertising sales executives at…
14 July 2023
3 minute read
The little task of ‘selling’ news to youth…
Handwringing about whether younger generations will pay for – or even care about – news, has been going on for decades, but has been accelerated massively by the disruption and…
13 July 2023
4 minute read
Is Indy the future of global news?
Evgeny Lebedev is the UK news proprietor that journalists love to hate. He's the Russia-born, UK-educated son of a former KBG agent (yes). In 2009, he bought control of London's…
7 July 2023
5 minute read
How I do it: Nina Wight, Harmsworth Media
Nina Wright is CEO of the Harmsworth Media division of Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT). She had been CEO of New Scientist when it was acquired in 2021 by DMGT for £70mn in cash – 4x the…
7 July 2023
7 minute read
Scotland’s TV steps up
STV Group Plc (the former Scottish Television) which broadcasts to the 5.5mn population of the United Kingdom’s northern-most country, this week acquired theUK unscripted production…
6 July 2023
2 minute read
How B2C media relegates readers…
Let's agree that the early impact of the web on print media was exacerbated by two decades of advertising boom that had reduced the dependance of newspapers and magazines on readership…
30 June 2023
6 minute read
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