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GovExec buys GovTribe
Acquisitive Washington DC-based GovExec, the information company covering US government and institutions, has acquired Virginia-based GovTribe, another company which provides market…
UK children’s mag launches
Signature Publishing, of Surrey, England is to launch two new children’s magazines this month. The first is in conjunction with Aardman Animation, focussing on the arts market and…
Gannett sells US local papers
Vernon Publishing, based in Missouri, in the US mid-west, is to buy a selection of local news titles from Gannett. Vernon is a family-owned local paper publisher. The acquired titles include:…
Archant UK local deal
UK newco Clear Sky Publishing, formed by former Archant regional newspaper employees, has bought three south west of England news titles from Archant: Torbay Weekly, North Devon Gazette and…
Fox Corp ‘wants TMZ’
Fox Corp, of the US, owned by the Murdoch family, is rumoured to be interested in buying the celebrity and entertainment gossip and news website TMZ from its current parent Warner Media, owned…
Fintech site boom
The Montana, US-based fintech site Digital Wealth News reached 40,000 monthly uniques in July – 10 months after launch. The privately-owned brand publishes weekly newsletters, podcasts,…
RMS sold to Moody’s – for $2bn
The UK’s DMGT has agreed a $2.02 billion cash deal to sell its US-based catastrophe forecasting and insurance risk business RMS to Moody’s. The price is some 40 times 2020…
How Murdoch is chasing B2B
The $14 billion News Corp is acquiring the US-based Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) and related assets from the soon-to-merge S&P Global and IHS Markit for $1.2 billion in cash. The…
Superfluid: the beauty of media
When it was founded with $4million seedfunding in September 2016, Freeda Media (the brainchild of Italian media executive Andrea Scotti Calderini and investment banker Gianluigi Casole) was…
Why UK retail ‘dinosaur’ matters
The UK publishing of books, magazines and newspapers has almost been defined by a single retailer which next year celebrates its 230th anniversary. W.H. Smith (WHS), the £2 billion…
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