News brands
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…
Will Australia’s Nine become the model media group?
On Monday (19 November), shareholders of Australia’s 177-year-old Fairfax Media are expected to approve its A$4bn ‘merger’ with…
Gilded Naspers needs partners
Naspers, of South Africa, is preparing to de-merge Africa’s largest TV group MultiChoice whose DStv was a pioneering…
Is this the last chance for (some) daily newspapers?
Two optimistic new media fund-raisings last week are a warning that daily newspapers must abandon their go-slow digital…
End of road for Johnston Press
Quick read. Johnston Press (JP), the heavily indebted UK news group behind the i, The Scotsman, The Yorkshire…
Uzabase goes global
Former investment banker Yusuke Umeda, whose Uzabase company last month completed the $75m-110m purchase of business news site Quartz,…
Can Daily Mail beat family curse?
The UK’s Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) and Hearst Corporation, of the US, can each claim to…