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What Ascential may do next
The pandemic will upend a lot of B2B strategies because the dislocation will change the shape of the exhibitions industry. Companies and events will come and go but some will simply be reduced…
‘Vanity Fair meets Substack’
Private equity firm TPG is backing a new subscription-based digital publication being launched by Jon Kelly, a former editor of Vanity Fair, that will cover media, Hollywood and tech,…
Televisa-Univision merger
In further Latin America and Spanish language M&A activity, the two major TV companies Univision and Televisa have agreed to merge. The new company will be known as Televisa-Univision.…
Vox Media buys Café Studios
Vox Media, the US publisher of Vox, New York Magazine, Recode and The Verge, has acquired the podcast publisher Café Studios. The company was founded in 2017 by Preet Bharara and brother Vinit…
Immediate consolidates shows
Immediate Media, the UK’s second largest magazine publisher, has completed the acquisition of River Street Events (which it had acquired 57% of in 2019). It is merging the company with…
US news startup
Series A fundraising has been completed for a new media startup, according to Axios. The founders are Luminary co-founder Joe Puzycki, former NYT editor Jon Kelly and ex Athletic staffer Max…
CoStar buys homes. com
CoStar Group of the US, a property information and data and information provider, is to buy Virginia based website Homes. com in a cash deal worth $156m. Homes. com is a residential property…
How the Daily Mail Group does it
The Daily Mail, like its right-of-centre politics, is loved by some Brits and loathed by others. Even before it campaigned stridently for Brexit, the mid-market tabloid had always divided…
Can Newsy be the new CNN?
Newsy, the “next generation” TV news channel which has increased revenue 4 x since 2017, is going for the big time. E.W. Scripps, which acquired the channel for $35m in 2014, last…
The Conversation is 10
In 2004, Andrew Jaspan – the British-born former editor of The Observer, The Scotsman and the Big Issue – was appointed editor of The Age, in Melbourne. Four years later, he began…
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