News brands
Mediahuis N.Ireland launch
Mediahuis-owned Irish newspaper The Sunday Independent is launching a Northern Ireland edition, in print and digital. The move…
Baltimore news launch
Hotelier Stewart Bainum is to launch an all-digital news brand, The Baltimore Banner, having lost out in a…
Chicago radio may buy daily
The owner of Chicago radio station WBEZ, Chicago Public Media, is hoping to buy the Chicago newspaper the…
beehiiv takes on Substack…
Three former staff of the Axel Springer-ownednewsletter company Morning Brew have joined forces to fundraise for a new…
‘Why the press could fail’
Jessica Lessin (who reported on Silicon Valley for the Wall Street Journal for eight years before founding The…
Fox buys TMZ
Fox Corp, the Murdoch family-controlled media company, has bought celebrity news site TMZ for a sum thought to…
New Statesman ‘goes global’
The UK’s venerable left-wing political weekly, The New Statesman, seems to have been inspired both by the recent…
BuzzFeed profits from ads boom
BuzzFeed broke through into profit with EBITDA of $5.5m in the second quarter of 2021, compared with a…
The Hill sold for $130m
US local TV company Nexstar Media Group has bought Washington DC news brand The Hill in a deal…
Phillips buys Missouri papers
Baxter Bulletin and four news brands in Missouri, US, have been bought by Phillips Media Group as Gannett…