News. Long-established UK regional news group Iliffe Media is set to acquire the Newark Advertiser and its associated website and publications, including the Newark Trader, based in Newark, Nottinghamshire. Iliffe, which publishes the award-winning Cambridge Independent, is a serial consolidator, having acquired 13 titles from the strapped Johnston Press, and the whole of KM Media Group in 2017. It previously sold off its core regional newspaper group to the DMGT-led Local World, now owned by Reach Plc (former Trinity Mirror) which itself is busy digesting the Express newspapers (and OK! magazine) bought from Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell. A lot of UK newspaper activity but still nothing of the private equity gold rush underway in the US. Perhaps that’s coming.
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Iliffe keeps acquiring UK regionals
