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Mediahuis buys €6mn EU news brand
European media group Mediahuis has acquired EURACTIV, the 24-year-old Brussels-based, EU news website in a move which seems likely to lead to increased competition for the European edition of…
11 May 2023
3 minute read
Why Vice failed
The onetime darling of the new media boom,Vice Media, may be forced to file for bankruptcy next week in a process which could lead either to a breakup auction or to a speedy cut-price sale…
5 May 2023
13 minute read
How I do it: Lee Newton, Media 10
Lee Newton is founder-CEO of Media 10, the £30mn-revenue owner of 30 live events and 13 B2B publications attracting some 1mn visitors annually. Leaving school without pausing to think about…
5 May 2023
14 minute read
How LADbible can beat BuzzFeed + Vice
In the week when BuzzFeed finally closed its investigative News operation, it is just too easy to critique the digital news provider that was built on "sharing" content on social media. The…
28 April 2023
7 minute read
How I do it: Neil Vogel, Dotdash Meredith
Neil Vogel is CEO of Dotdash Meredith, the largest digital and print publisher in the US, whose 40+ brands include: People, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce,…
28 April 2023
14 minute read
Will AI erode media independence?
There always seems to be big media news during the week when hundreds of the world’s journalists and media executives gather at the International Journalism Festival in the historic city…
27 April 2023
7 minute read
How WGSN became the Ascential star
Duncan Painter, the 12-year CEO of Ascential Plc, could be forgiven for wondering just how he could have had a more successful seven years as boss of a listed B2B company. He has won plaudits…
21 April 2023
7 minute read
How I do it: Sharon Waxman, The Wrap
Sharon Waxman is the founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Wrap, the Hollywood and media business news site. She had been a foreign correspondent in Europe and the Middle East,…
21 April 2023
6 minute read
How chess is beating video games
There is, perhaps, nothing more arcane than the process by which new sports are added to the Olympic Games. In Paris next year, there will be Olympians in skateboarding, breakdancing and…
14 April 2023
8 minute read
How I do it: Richard Charkin, book publisher
Richard Charkin is a British book publisher who has been an executive of Reed Elsevier, Pergamon Press, Oxford University Press, Macmillan, Holtzbrinck and – during 2007-18 – the fast-growing…
14 April 2023
9 minute read
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