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How Hearst will change
A+E Global Media – the 40-year-old US TV network of Lifetime, History Channel, Biography and Vice TV – is being put up for sale by its owners Hearst and Disney. In a reflection of the way that…
UK consultant launches AI-powered content service
FT Strategies, the media consulting arm of the Financial Times, this week announced the launch of NewsCaaS which it described as “an end-to-end strategic content service, developed in…
How to build a £100mn data business
It's 13 years since Tom Seaman, a former B2B journalist who had been writing about the commercial fishing industry, decided to launch his own startup in the UK. As a fledgling reporter, he had…
Major new AI event in London
Flashes & Flames this week announces a major new event to assess the commercial, operational and competitive impact of AI for news, lifestyle and B2B media and events. “The…
Le Monde booms – by adding journos
Teemu Henriksson, of WAN-Ifra, the World Association of News Publishers, reports that the French publisher has increased its newsroom headcount by no less than 80% in the past 15 years. By…
Can betting really be the future of news?
It’s a facile question but one, perhaps, worth asking in light of recent events concerning Polymarket, the cryptocurrency-based online betting marketplace where users predict the outcome of…
RIP Dominic Proctor: ads industry legend
Dominic Proctor, a leading figure in the development of global media and advertising agencies and one of the most influential executives in the history of WPP – one of the most successful…
What next for Emerald et al?
You might be forgiven for wondering why private equity investors favour trade shows much more than their counterparts in listed companies. These events, lest we forget, had – until the…
The crowded legacy of Felix Dennis
It’s 11 years since the premature death of Felix Dennis, one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs in the heyday of magazines. The boistrous publisher, who made a billion dollars on…
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