News brands
UK local group sold
London-based Rcapital Partners is to acquire a 90% stake in Archant, the troubled UK eastern local news publisher.…
Pine Bluff local ‘merger’
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (ADG), published by the privately-owned WEHCO Media, has bought the weekly Pine Bluff Commercial from…
Murdoch TV News launch?
Just a month after News Corp’s The Times of London launched an eponymous radio station in the UK,…
Times India to sell web stake
Bennett & Coleman, the family-owned publisher of Times of India, are considering selling a 10% stake in its…
Cafeyn buys Blendle
Cafeyn, a pan-European streaming service, has acquired Blendle, the six-year-old Netherlands-based news platform which had been backed by…
New York Times buys podcaster
The New York Times has bought eponymous podcast company Serial. The company was formed in 2017 following the…
Nub News “£2m fundraising”
The UK hyperlocal group Nub News says it is in the final stages of negotiating up to £2m…
Chatham buys McClatchy
US local newspaper company McClatchy has been sold out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy to Chatham Asset Management, owner…
Can Reach escape history?
Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New York last week, exactly 30 years after (we now know) her late…
Vedemosti taken over
The Russian-language business daily Vedemosti has been acquired by Ivan Eremin, owner of the Federal Press Agency, of…