The Global Media Weekly
The big Meredith surprise?
Three years ago this month, Meredith Corp was euphoric. The 119-year-old, Des Moines, Iowa-based media group had acquired the world's best known magazine publisher Time Inc for $2.8bn – a 40%…
19 February 2021
6 minute read
Is this the future for Reach?
The Daily Mirror, the best-known brand of UK news group Reach Plc, is itself never far from the headlines. The 118-year-old tabloid dominated the country's newsstands long before the late…
19 February 2021
5 minute read
OUP open access deal
Oxford University Press (OUP) and the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) have reached a comprehensive ‘Read and Publish’ agreement to provide the country’s…
18 February 2021
1 minute read
iHeart buys more podcasts
Audio group iHeart Media (which is quoted on NASDAQ in the US) is to buy podcast service company Triton Digital for $230m from its parent EW Scripps. Scripps acquired the business in late 2018…
18 February 2021
1 minute read
Bridgepoint buys DeHavilland
Bridgepoint private equity has bought political monitoring company DeHavilland from information and events company Ascential Plc which has also recently divested the Glenigan building…
18 February 2021
1 minute read
Unacademy buys into TapChief
India’s edtech provider Unacademy has bought a majority stake in recruitment and business networking site TapChief. TapChief, established in 2016, facilitates peer-to-peer learning in business…
18 February 2021
1 minute read
CoreLogic auction underway
California based financial and property data company CoreLogic is generating high levels of takeover interest. CoStarGroup is the most recent bidder joining the fray, with an offer of $96 per…
18 February 2021
1 minute read
RB Media buys Booka
US audiobook company RBMedia has bought Booka, the Spanish language audiobooks publisher.The Booka audio backlist has leading authors and narrators and will have interest to the fast growing…
18 February 2021
1 minute read
MBO at Active Interest Media
Andrew Clurman, CEO of Boulder, Colorado-based Active Interest Media (AIM), has bought the company, along with other investors, PE company Wind Point Partners. AIM is being acquired by the…
18 February 2021
1 minute read
Is this how local papers survive?
Traditional media is quick to allocate the blame for its demise. Dying magazines and newspapers believe that digital monsters have stolen their readers, advertisers and the right to exist. But…
12 February 2021
6 minute read
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