News brands
Soutar searches again for ‘free’ profits
The Moscow-born, London-educated media entrepreneur Evgeny Lebedev, who has been splashed by financial and political controversy (courtesy of…
Berliner Zeitung sold
Berlin entrepreneurs Silke and Holger Friedrich have bought Berlin daily Berliner Zeitung from DuMont Mediengruppe. DuMont is a…
How the Financial Times does it
The Financial Times (FT) is on top of the world. Seventeen years after it introduced a then almost-revolutionary…
How Knewz can transform News Corp profits
After a year of watching digital-only brands struggling to breathe, News Corp has confirmed it is developing a news…
Shaw buys US farm weeklies
Shaw Media, of the US, is to acquire two weekly publications from Miller Group Media, the NewsTribune and…
PressReader buys News360 personalisation
PressReader, the Vancouver-based global ‘all you can read’ newspaper and magazine platform, is to buy News360 for its…
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…