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How Newsquest became UK leader – with a bit of help from King Charles
Oxford Mail is a UK tabloid daily newspaper in the home of the oldest university in the English-speaking world. The city also enjoys its proximity to the rural region of the subtly fashionable…
Obituary for a computer magazine
Australia could once claim to be the world’s most successful magazine market. Although its population was a mere 19mn in 2000, many of its largest magazines were read by more than 50% of…
The Week That Was – 6 Nov 2026
12 days to go Still time to engage with the 32 CEOs and industry leaders participating in The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Business Information & Events, on Wednesday, 18 November, at…
DealMakers: Record year continues…
With 12 deals announced this last month, the total number of transactions for the year now stands at 87, equalling the highest number of transactions reported for the whole of 2018 when the…
Podcast: How hyperlocal monetises AI
Don’t Miss Media Group (DMMG) founder Georgina Wilson-Powell, in the UK, has led the implementation of AI across production, commercial and operational infrastructure, which has helped the…
The Week That Was – 30 Oct 2026
Mood change at the Telegraph New Flashes & Flames Events site We have soft-launched a new Flashes & Flames Events website, which includes an Insider Hub carrying in-depth resources…
$3bn Forge buys AI Infra Summit
Forge, the Apollo pe-owned US aggregation of Emerald, Questex and Becker's, this week acquired UK-based conference group Kisaco Research for an estimated enterprise value of some £80-85mn. We…
PODCAST: how ‘extras’ grow audiences
Puzzles, podcasts and AI-assisted article read-outs are just some of the techniques that UK media brands Stylist and the Daily Mail are using to ‘habit stack’ in their apps and make each…
Trade show zero to £40mn hero
M&A success is all about timing. Of course. Take this month’s sale of the £15mn-revenue, UK trade show company ROAR B2B. In January, just weeks before the start of the trade show ‘big…
The Week That Was – 23 Oct 2026
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