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What now for Future?
After two earlier decades of boom and bust, it’s now been almost nine years since the UK-based Future Plc provided any shock headlines. Since 2014, CEO Zillah Byng-Thorne has led the digital…
Ex Mack Brooks owner buys into B2B
Stephen Brooks, former owner of the Mack Brooks exhibitions company, is getting back into B2B information and events three years after selling out to Reed Exhibitions (now RX) for some £200m.…
How I do it: Frank Vrancken Peeters, Springer Nature
Frank Vrancken Peeters is CEO of Springer Nature, a global academic publishing and information group whose heritage brands include: Springer itself (founded in 1842), Macmillan (1843), Nature…
Daily Mail ponders the future of news
It’s just 10 years since free daily newspapers and weekly magazines were fashionable and profitable in the UK, especially in London where the city’s “tube” underground…
How I do it: Frank Bennack, Hearst
Frank Bennack is executive vice chairman of Hearst Corp, the $12bn-revenue, 135-year-old, family-owned media company with interests across business information, broadcasting, cable TV,…
Why Le Monde is going global
When we think about global media expansions, we tend to take English – as the most widely (though not most) spoken language – as a starting point. And thus, for the most part, we…
Can Aussie ‘media model’ really make it?
It is four years since Australia’s Nine Entertainment Company (NEC) moved quickly to exploit the country’s change in media ownership laws and negotiate a A$4bn ‘merger’…
Ukraine media fights to stay alive
Russia’s invasion has turned the eyes of the world on Ukraine but, at the same time, has devastated domestic media outlets seeking to report what is happening to their country. Though it…
MediaDeals Week
The deal Sector Price Link Yahoo (owned by Apollo pe) acquires The Factual (est. 2019 rates cred of news sources) News NA Yahoo News Corp has sold Amplify Education Inc. learning system to…
How I do it: John Yedinak, Aging Media
John Yedinak is president and co-founder of the 10-year-old Aging Media Network Inc. The Chicago-based B2B media company may be the first to focus exclusively on the aging population and the…
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