Colin Morrison
1254 posts
Can Newsy be the new CNN?
Newsy, the "next generation" TV news channel which has increased revenue 4 x since 2017, is going for…
9 April 2021
Flashback: The Conversation is 10
In 2004, Andrew Jaspan – the British-born former editor of The Observer, The Scotsman and the Big Issue…
8 April 2021
Can free papers bounce back?
Vaccinations are helping companies now to turn their attentions to how their markets have been changed by the…
2 April 2021
‘SPAC rescue for Vice Media’
Vice Media is expected effectively to go public with plans to merge with the special purpose acquisition company…
2 April 2021
Will News Corp SELL next?
Just one week after the New York-based News Corp acquired Investor’s Business Daily, it has announced a deal…
1 April 2021
Acast ramps up podcast platform
The seven-year-old global podcast platform Acast is launching Acast+, “a raft of powerful subscription tools to support podcasters…
1 April 2021
New European takes off
In February, a star-studded consortium including former New York Times CEO Mark Thompson, ex FT editor-in-chief Lionel Barber,…
1 April 2021
Axios-The Athletic merger?
Every week, there seems to be another reason to identify an opportunity for daily newspapers which could so…
1 April 2021
News Corp buys business ‘daily’
News Corp is acquiring the 37-year-old Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) from O’Neil Capital Management for $275m The digital-first…
26 March 2021
Dennis prepares for the payoff
The private equity owner of Dennis Publishing this week de-merged its automotive interests in a move which has…
26 March 2021