News brands
Will The Athletic win the race?
The four-year-old subscription sports app The Athletic this week announced an additional fundraising of $50m, bringing total investment…
UK newspapers feel US heat
UK newspapers hardly resemble the US market. The old Fleet Street national brands still dominate UK dailies and…
MCC buys Vancouver weekly
The listed Media Central Corporation, of Canada, has acquired the privately-owned The Georgia Straight, a popular weekly newspaper…
La Stampa to be sold
John Elkann, from the Agnelli family, is in talks to buy the Italian newspaper publisher GEDI Gruppo, owner…
Who will win UK news sell-off?
Many of the UK’s newspapers are up for grabs. This week, Reach Plc (formerly Trinity Mirror), the listed…
The end of USA Today?
Shareholders yesterday (Nov 14) approved the private equity-funded GateHouse Media’s $1.13bn acquisition of USA Today owner Gannett, to create…
What’s next for Telegraph?
Britain’s Daily Telegraph is for sale 15 years after the Barclay brothers acquired it for £665m from the…
What will happen to daily newspapers?
Britain’s national daily newspapers are a legacy of the pioneering railway network that, more than 100 years ago,…
What media monopoly?
The era of media consolidation is well underway. The Vox Media acquisition of New York magazine, and Vice’s…
Retail shivers for UK print
More scares for UK publishers of newspapers and magazines. The UK’s fifth largest supermarket chain Aldi last week…