News brands
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…
Mediahuis buys Irish News
Irish newspaper company Independent News & Media (INM) has agreed a sale to Mediahuis, of Belgium, for a…
Fairfax sell-offs in Australia
Some 160 regional newspapers, magazines, printing and associated web sites are being sold in Australia by Nine Entertainment…
Can Tortoise startup compete in UK news race?
What’s the future of the news business? As if the continuous bleeding of daily newspapers was not enough, the…
Will FT buy The Information?
The Nikkei-owned, UK-based Financial Times is believed to be negotiating to acquire or invest in The Information, the…