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Audio: Good Housekeeping UK’s Liz Settle: “Best time to work in magazines…”
Liz Settle joined Hearst UK’s Good Housekeeping magazine as managing director in 2023 and, over the last three years, she’s changed a lot at the 104-year old brand. She says 2025 was the…
The Week That Was – Sept 11
Guardian +15% in US The increasingly global Guardian’s latest financials show it had 2025-6 revenue of £282mn (2024-5: £276mn), propelled by 17% growth in digital reader revenue to £126mn. US…
Is the next trade show ‘big bang’ on the way?
Scarcely four years after the end of the pandemic, this has been the year of the trade show Big Bang. In a four-week burst, private equity firms splashed almost $6bn on Emerald and Questex, of…
Are you still a publisher if you don’t publish?
Adriana Whiteley, Director, FT Strategies, the consulting arm of the Financial Times, draws on the firm’s “Resilient Content Businesses in the Age of AI” series. She is a…
The Nerve news ‘close to breakeven’ in Year One
UK newsletter-first news start-up The Nerve is preparing to celebrate a year since launch with special events, and even a print magazine. Co-founder Sarah Donaldson shares why they’ve seen…
The Week That Was – 4 Sept
All about priceGoogle will not be forced to sell-off its ad exchange but must make its adtech tools work with rival exchanges, a US federal judge has ruled. The decision comes after Google was…
Is this an unlikely B2B success?
Exactly two years ago, Substack newsletter publisher Simon Owens lauded Andrew Curtin, whose then two-year-old startup Construction Wave had just organized its first conference. It was, the…
DealMakers: coming out of a summer break
Most of the event buyers took a Summer holiday from M&A, so we have only three transactions to report this month. A rare break in the feeding frenzy which seems sure to resume shortly. Yet…
Full programme: The Definitive AI Forum 2026
There’s just one week to go for you to book the Earlybird discount rate for individuals and corporate groups at The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events 2026. The AI…
The last indie: Legal 500 heads for exit
There is a moment in every consolidation when the map redraws itself so fast that the survivors barely notice they have become targets. The global legal-information market – the rankings,…
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