News brands
What 1440 means to all media
It’s a never-ending challenge for established news media, seeking to compete with disrupters while defending their still-profitable traditional…
What now for Business Insider?
Flashback: Last week, Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng announced that more than 20% of the staff were to…
UK Telegraph sale agreed – at last
The UK’s Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is being sold to a consortium led by RedBird Capital Partners (a…
Apple News ‘catalyst’ set for takeoff
US and UK news and magazine-centric publishers can’t believe their luck in signing up to Apple News+. The…
KKR deal ‘frees’ Springer to become news leader…
Axel Springer has agreed the long expected divestment of its classified advertising business to investor KKR. Under the…
Getting people to pay for news…
How to get people to pay for online news remains the biggest challenge – in many cases an…
ICYMI: Can Guardian beat New York Times?
From August 2023: It is eight years since The Guardian suffered the agony both of heavy trading losses…
The little task of ‘selling’ news to youth…
Handwringing about whether younger generations will pay for – or even care about – news, has been going…
Who pays whom for news?
One of the news industry’s biggest challenges remains the simple fact that most people simply do not pay…
Mediahuis buys €6mn EU news brand
European media group Mediahuis has acquired EURACTIV, the 24-year-old Brussels-based, EU news website in a move which seems…