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Is this the future of UK’s largest news group?
Jim Mullen, CEO of Reach Plc, the UK’s largest newspaper group, sounded positive when he announced the listed company’s results for 2021: Revenue up 2.6% to £615.8m and EBITDA up…
How I do it: Tony Robinson, UKI Media & Events
Tony Robinson is chairman and founder of UKI Media & Events. The 31-year-old company – known as UKIP until the acronym was nabbed by the United Kingdom Independence Party – has…
How Bloomberg is targeting the FT
Bloomberg is in some ways a strange beast: A world famous $10bn+ revenue media company that isn’t really a media company. Not that you’d necessarily know that from its recent…
Sirius XM adds Team Coco
US audio company Sirius XM has bought podcast producers Team Coco in a deal worth $150m. Team Coco, based in Burbank, LA, are noted for the podcast” Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend”…
Candle buys Hispanic and children’s shows
Candle Media, the Blackstone-backed company, which last week bought video news company ATTN, has this week added Exile Content Media Studio a Spanish language TV producer, to its portfolio…
Black Ox buys local B2B mag
UK regional business publisher Black Ox Media Events has acquired the bi-monthly Business & Innovation Magazine. The company last year bought Thames Valley and South East based brand The…
How Condé Nast went from mags to Oscars
Less than 20 years ago, there was a magazine industry full of single-minded companies for whom print was a high-margin business funded by readers and advertisers, and staffed by careerists who…
How I do it: Rafat Ali, Skift
Rafat Ali is the CEO-Founder of Skift, the 10-year-old US-based travel industry events, research and information business. He was the founder of paidContent and ContentNext, which he sold to…
Can Quartz make it at last?
Acquisition of the 10-year-old Quartz business news brand by G/O Media last month was yet another example of a digital media pioneer seemingly failing to live up to its founding…
Arc goes deeper into food
UK-based, private equity-backed Arc Media Holdings, which last month bought financial publisher Incisive Media for c£43m, has acquired the privately-owned, Netherlands-based Bridge2Food. The…
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