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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…
2 June 2023
2 minute read
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…
1 June 2023
7 minute read
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…
1 June 2023
5 minute read
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…
26 May 2023
9 minute read
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 £385mn.…
26 May 2023
5 minute read
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…
19 May 2023
6 minute read
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…
19 May 2023
9 minute read
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…
18 May 2023
6 minute read
Informa prepares for new era of trade shows…
Informa Plc, the £10bn UK-based B2B information and events, might not be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. After all, this is post-pandemic recovery year for the hyperactive business…
12 May 2023
6 minute read
How I do it: Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, The New York Times
Stephen Dunbar-Johnson has been president, international, at The New York Times for 10 years. Previously, he had been publisher of the International Herald Tribune (IHT), the 136-year-old…
12 May 2023
6 minute read
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