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What next for Condé Nast?
This has been a big year for the Newhouse family whose US-based Advance group reportedly made a cool $2bn from the IPO of their 30% owned Reddit. They own 8% of the $40bn-revenue Warner…
The Year in Media 2024: your holiday reading
For your reading before, during or after the holiday season, we present The Year in Media 2024, our compilation of the 30 best-read features from Flashes & Flames this year. Read or…
How a legendary B2B brand just died
In an era of diversifying B2B brands, UK media people were stunned by the announcement last week that the 166-year old Estates Gazette (curiously re-branded as EG in 2017) would close…
Can Trump ‘help’ newspapers again?
The first Trump administration was largely seen as a boon for the US news media. The so-called “Trump bump” is credited with adding thousands upon thousands of subscriptions to newspapers, in…
Centaur Media breakup
This week’s departure of Swag Mukerji, the CEO of Centaur Media for the past eight years, signals the start of a long-awaited “review” and a breakup sale of the UK…
Informa on Nasdaq. What’s next?
Informa this week completed its acquisition of a 57% shareholding in the Nasdaq-listed TechTarget. The deal involved the transfer of many of the assets of the InformaTech division and also a…
Will Future do it?
Future Plc, the UK-based, lifestyle media group, yesterday received a welcome boost from investors as its shares jumped 22% in response to modest but reassuringly predicted financials for the…
UK media wins reach but loses ‘time spent’
UK regulator Ofcom does an especially good job of producing detailed research into media consumption, and its annual Online Nation report offers a chance to examine changing online habits.…
What Dotdash Meredith got wrong and right
Three years ago this week, the digital media group Dotdash acquired America’s largest magazines group Meredith for $2.7bn. The deal brought together some 40 magazines including People, Better…
How London can be a hot market for newsletters
It’s all happening in London. In the month when the 197-year-old, perennially-lossmaking Evening Standard became a weekly (yes), two local newsletters launched. Joshi Hermann (founder of Mill…
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