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Nightmare ahead for Murdoch’s Sky TV?
The UK goes to the polls on Thursday (May 7) with Rupert Murdoch’s terrier tabloid The Sun having…
Heroes & Villains: Peretti and Murdoch
Hero Jonah Peretti: He was the least well-known of the four founders of Huffington Post 10 years ago. Jonah…
Heroes & Villains: Clark Gilbert, Leo Laporte + OK!
Heroes Leo Laporte: If you want to see the emerging, low-cost, easy-access future of TV, go 35 miles…
Heroes & Villains: Oprah celebrates, Wenner mis-fires
Heroes Oprah Winfrey: It is 15 years since Oprah Winfrey chose to channel her motivational “you-can-do-it” spirit into a…
How dailies must change to compete in global news
For more than 50 years, newspapers and TV dominated news coverage almost everywhere. Then, the internet created the…
Heroes & Villains: another big week for Vice News
Heroes Shane Smith just keeps moving. Just six months after he raised $500m by selling 20% of Vice shares…
This week’s Heroes & Villains
Here’s the first of our weekly run-down of winners and losers in a big headlining – and money-losing…
Can this Brit reinvent B2B magazine-media?
Time was when business-to-business media groups seemed the least likely to be disrupted by the web. Executives routinely…
Can newspapers manage the future of news?
What is it about daily newspapers? Falling circulations and advertising have broken business models that cannot be mended…
Are traditional media chiefs too old to compete?
Traditional media is rightly obsessed with “millennials”, the 18-34 year-olds who have grown up with the internet. They…