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One year after Preqin, who’s next?
A year ago, the founders of the 21-year-old data provider Preqin were celebrating their £2.6bn ($3.2bn) acquisition by…
25 July 2025
UK news leader starts the fight back
The new CEOs of Future and Reach may be watching each other closely. Not because what are, respectively,…
25 July 2025
Why ‘new’ Observer keeps Tortoise audio focus
Following the UK-based Tortoise Media’s purchase of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer, the publisher is rebranding…
24 July 2025
How Hearst will change
A+E Global Media - the 40-year-old US TV network of Lifetime, History Channel, Biography and Vice TV -…
18 July 2025
UK consultant launches AI-powered content service
FT Strategies, the media consulting arm of the Financial Times, this week announced the launch of NewsCaaS which…
17 July 2025
How to build a £100mn data business
It's 13 years since Tom Seaman, a former B2B journalist who had been writing about the commercial fishing…
11 July 2025
Major new AI event in London
Flashes & Flames this week announces a major new event to assess the commercial, operational and competitive impact…
10 July 2025
Le Monde booms – by adding journos
Teemu Henriksson, of WAN-Ifra, the World Association of News Publishers, reports that the French publisher has increased its…
10 July 2025
Can betting really be the future of news?
It’s a facile question but one, perhaps, worth asking in light of recent events concerning Polymarket, the cryptocurrency-based…
10 July 2025
RIP Dominic Proctor: ad industry legend
Dominic Proctor, a leading figure in the development of global media and advertising agencies and one of the…
10 July 2025