News brands
BuzzFeed marries HuffPost
The US news and entertainment company BuzzFeed is to acquire HuffPost (formerly known as Huffington Post) from telco…
Axel Springer to buy Morning Brew
Morning Brew, the business newsletter founded in 2015 by US college friends Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman, is…
Quartz for sale – again
The diverging fortunes of digital news startups Quartz and Axios offer some insights into monetization strategies for publishers. While Axios claims it will increase…
Mediahuis buys NDC
Mediahuis NV, the seven-year-old, privately-owned Benelux media group which also publishes the Irish Independent, is acquiring Dutch media…
NewsGuard to be sold
NewsGuard, the US-based online service that rates and ranks news websites for credibility and transparency, is believed to…
JPI for sale – again
The regional news publisher JPI Media, of the UK, (formerly known as Johnston Press) is set to resume…
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…