News brands
How The Guardian did it. What’s next?
Just three years ago, The Guardian was deep in crisis. After helping to make the one-time regional UK…
Why Reach CEO lost his job, despite the profits
The largest newspaper publishers in the US and UK, like their counterparts everywhere, are wrestling with sharp declines…
Pennsylvania news consolidation
News. Avant Publications, based in Pennsylvania, has acquired the state’s Times Leader Media Group from Civitas Media which is…
Has The Athletic woken up Fleet Street?
News. Most daily newspapers (with the notable exception of the New York Times) just can’t bring themselves to unbundle…
Can newspapers and magazines save each other?
Sixteen years after Apple’s iTunes store first enabled users to buy the song they wanted and not the…
Gannett-GateHouse ‘to create dominant US news publisher’
News. Two of the largest newspaper companies in the US are reportedly set to combine. Gannett, owner of…
The inexorable rise of non-profit news
News. Mediapart, the French digital news service founded 11 years ago by the former editor of Le Monde, Edwy…
What Lebedev has done for UK media
It is 10 years since London’s only evening newspaper was acquired by the Lebedev family whose fortune had reportedly…
How Axel Springer changed everything
The Berlin-based Axel Springer is selling its 51% share in the @Leisure Group, of Amsterdam, a rental company…
Classy problems at The Economist
The Economist this week appointed Lara Boro, CEO of Informa Intelligence and former boss of Middle East Economic…