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Hearst buys UK events from Telegraph Media Group
Events. Acquisition of watch and wellbeing events marks diversification for Hearst’s magazine-dependant UK portfolio. Expect more Hearst event deals.…
Imagine Entertainment (Ron Howard) acquires Jax Media (Tony Hernandez)
Broadcast-streaming. Jax makes “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”, “Search Party,” “Broad City”, “Inside Amy Schumer,” and “Roseanne” Imagine
S&P (ex McGraw Hill Financial) buys Panjiva supply chain data
B2B information. Adds to S&P’s ratings for capital + commodities transactional data covering in excess of 35% of…
Informa agrees £3.9bn acquisition of UBM exhibitions
Events. Creates world’s second largest trade show company (Reed is clear no.1). Will Informa sell its STM publishing:…
RELX Plc acquires Threat Matrix for $817m
B2B information. Largest RELX deal for 10 years is a fraud detection tool (100m transactions analysed per day).…
Blackstone buys 55% of Reuters data biz for $17.3bn
B2B information. Biggest change since 2008 merger of Thomson + Reuters. Makes Blackstone a direct competitor to Bloomberg.…
How Meredith upstaged Time Inc
While the British were founding the BBC and jailing Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 became a landmark year in magazines.…
What now for ‘world’s biggest’ magazine?
Twenty-one years ago, the world’s most successful magazine editor stepped down. In a dazzling 32-year reign, Helen Gurley…
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.…
Is this how streaming will kill TV networks?
‘Media disruption’ is a gentle description of the way that technology expands the choice for consumers and marketers…