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Will Her Campus be sold?
As students near the end of their academic year, millions are poring over online advice on how to cope with exams, make the most of their relationships, protect their health, call out sexism…
Solving the Ascential puzzle
Ascential Plc, the UK-based B2B information and events group, is expected to announce the buyer for its WGSN trend forecasting platform before the end of this month. The company plans to…
Video interview: Simon Foster, Arc Network
Dan Assor, founder of the Dan Assor Show video/podcast, mainly about events, this week interviews Simon Foster. He’s Group CEO and founder of the private equity-funded, B2B group Arc…
Who pays whom for news?
One of the news industry’s biggest challenges remains the simple fact that most people simply do not pay for news. Survey data from the Reuters Digital News Report found that an average of…
How I do it: Gert Ysebaert, Mediahuis
Gert Ysebaert is the founding CEO of the privately-owned Mediahuis Group, formed in 2013 as a joint venture between the Belgian publishers Corelio and Concentra. It has developed into a…
Has Nat Geo saved its future or sold it?
National Geographic is the 135-year-old US magazine that started life as a dull, text-only publication for the 165 serious-minded, charter members and famous explorers of the National…
How I do it: Michael Dell, Lloyd’s List
Michael Dell is CEO of Lloyd’s List Intelligence, the £50mn-revenue global maritime news and data company last year acquired from Informa by Montagu private equity for a valuation of…
All change at UK mag groups
Immediate Media, the UK subsidiary of the €3bn-revenue Burda, has appointed Sean Cornwell as CEO. He succeeds Tom Bureau, chairman (and also CEO of Burda International) who had been CEO…
How I do it: Amanda Barnes, Faversham House
Amanda Barnes is CEO and owner of Faversham House (FH), the 62-year-old B2B media, information and events company. She joined FH (which had been founded by her father) in 1989 after an initial…
How Yahoo kept getting it wrong
Would one bet have changed the course of internet history? Former Yahoo! CEO Marisa Mayer recently gave one of her first interviews in years, and one of her most eye-catching comments was that…
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