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PODCAST: Turning Variety into a B2B2C brand
More than a century old, Variety has transformed from a B2B pure play to a hybrid business and consumer publication. Publisher and co-president Dea Lawrence explains how this shift has helped the entertainment industry’s paper of record thrive through decades of disruption.
CloserStill sold for 13-16x EBITDA
After a year of industry disappointment at the apparent failure of the world’s fourth largest trade show organizer,…
RELX superstar Mark Kelsey bows out
Mark Kelsey, CEO of what is now the largest and most profitable division of RELX, is retiring after…
How Bauer is moving on from magazines
Bauer is the 151-year-old, family-owned media group whose distinctiveness infuriates its rivals. In the 1980s, when it started…
DealMakers: All about US deals
Six of this month’s eight acquisitions are US businesses, continuing the growing dominance of the US in exhibition…
The most successful magazine editor of all time…
You may not have heard of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, the most successful magazine editor of all time. Grosvenor…
Diller’s IAC becomes People Inc
This is the letter sent to shareholders this week by IAC founder-chair Barry Diller: Dear Shareholders, IAC is…
How tech media is fighting for the future
Informa TechTarget, the Nasdaq-listed B2B tech information and events company, 57% owned by Informa, may finally be gaining…
PODCAST: Semafor’s Ben Smith on ‘post-traffic’ news
Few understand better than ex-BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith the attraction of scale. But he saw the “terminal decline” beginning for the web and is keeping Semafor firmly rooted in quality over quantity, and direct audience connections.
Telegraph becomes Axel Springer flagship
Axel Springer, the $3bn Berlin-based, transatlantic, family-owned news group, was this week cleared to acquire the UK's Telegraph…