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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…
Society buys photonics shows
Events. SPIE, the Washington state-based international society for optics and photonics, has agreed to purchase Xmark Media, the…
US actor buys Hispanic productions
Sound & Vision. US actor John Leguizamo’s independent Latino media and entertainment company is growing again. NGL Collective,…
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…
Texas Monthly sold
Magazines. Texas Monthly magazine has been sold to Texan heiress Randa Duncan Williams’s Enterprise Products Company. The legendary…
STV buys Primal Media
Sound + Vision. STV, the Scotland-based TV broadcaster, has acquired a majority stake in the three-year-old production company Primal…
Rowman buys Prometheus Books
Books. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, a large independent book publisher in the US, has acquired the assets…
Condé keeps selling
Magazines. Condé Nast, of the US, is to sell the eight-times-per-year W magazine to a new company formed…
Social Life Network buys real estate
B2C. Social Life Network Inc, of the US, is acquiring LikeRE. com, the Colorado based real estate online portal…
Mubawah buys property verticals
B2C. Morocco’s real estate portal Mubawab has acquired Jumia House property verticals in the three markets of Morocco, Tunisia…