News brands
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…
Is FT really the model news brand?
The daily newspaper best known for its ‘salmon pink’ newsprint wants the world to know it is unique…
Forget Oscars, here are ‘The Dinkies’
Welcome to the first ‘digital-from-ink’ awards (“The Dinkies”), to recognise the successful transformation of primarily consumer print-centric companies.…
What now for UK’s Telegraph Media Group?
Daily newspapers remain the most vulnerable of traditional media. The business model has been broken not so much…
How newspaper brands survive the meltdown
Daily newspapers were the original ‘media industry’. That’s why executives are so tormented by the shredding of the…