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“AI is the start of a data gold rush”
The countdown is on to The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events, taking place on 25 November in Central London. Some 30 CEOs and industry leaders participating in our…
Centaur sells The Lawyer and…
The UK listed Centaur Media Plc has sold The Lawyer and associated events and information to the private equity-owned Legal Benchmarking Group (LBG, formerly part of Delinian/…
What next for Daily Mail group?
Alongside Hearst Corp, of the US, the UK's Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) can claim to be the world's oldest media company. Both were founded as newspaper publishers in the last years…
UK news leader starts the race
Reach Plc, the UK's largest commercial news group and publisher of more than 100 national, regional and local newspapers, announced this week a major revamp and an expected loss of 321 jobs…
Tom Bureau quits Burda
Tom Bureau, chair (and founding CEO) of Burda's Immediate Media subsidiary and latterly also CEO of its international operations, is stepping down next month after more than a decade as one of…
Podcast: Why UK’s Reach turned to Substack
Editor’s note: This MediaVoices podcast was recorded in June, and the piece written-up and scheduled before Reach Plc announced its major reorganisation (see our separate story this week).…
Full programme for the AI Forum
We have now confirmed the full programme for The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events, in Central London on Tuesday 25 November. The programme includes the CEOs and managing…
Mark Allen’s rapid B2B payback – in print
The £70mn-revenue Mark Allen Group (MAG), of the UK, has done it again. Just nine months after MAG paid RELX £2mn for the 166-year-old weekly Estates Gazette, it is expected make a profit in…
Dealmakers: joining the dots on events M&A
Welcome to the exclusive Dealmakers column which will be published in Flashes & Flames on the first Friday each month. Today’s northern Summer catchup details 13 transactions,…
Last 2 days of Earlybird discounts for our definitive AI event
There are just two days left to book discounted tickets for Flashes & Flames’ The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events. The Earlybird discounts expire tomorrow…
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