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UK Telegraph in a spin
Britain’s Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is the focus of intense political activity as a result of a provisional agreement to sell the 168-year-old Daily Telegraph to Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI…
How I do it: Mark Harvey, National Media Australia
Mark Harvey, the owner-founder of National Media, of Australia, is a serial trade show entrepreneur who has built and sold events in seven deals including: Online Retailer, ORIA's and IMEX…
What next for airline data?
In August, Vitruvian, the private equity owner of airline industry platform OAG tried to sound euphoric when it announced the acquisition of airfare data provider Infare from Ventiga Capital.…
How I do it: Claire Léost, Prisma Media
Claire Léost is president of Prisma Media. .She was appointed in 2021 after the 45-year-old company was acquired by Vivendi from Berteslmann for an estimated €200mn. Prisma is France's largest…
Why the New York Times is at risk
It is exactly 11 years since Mark Thompson, a media executive with little business and no newspaper experience, became CEO of the New York Times. Even those who admired how the Oxford-educated…
How I do it: Andy Marshall, Our Media
Andy Marshall is CEO and major shareholder of Our Media Ltd, the Bristol-based, UK specpub which was recently sold by Burda's UK subsidiary Immediate Media after being de-merged in 2021. It…
Nineteen chases trade show gold
Private equity firms became busy in trade show ownership in 15 pre-pandemic years during which average EBITDA multiples climbed from less than 10x to 15x. It seems clear that 2024 will see a…
How I do it: Tracy Yaffa, AdNews Australia
Tracy Yaffa is the owner and managing director of Yaffa Media, the Sydney, Australia-based publisher of 20 specialist and B2B media and events including: AdNews, Australian Defence Magazine,…
Why LinkedIn is media-friendly
For media organisations, LinkedIn has sometimes seemed like the runt of the social media litter. Even as one of the three main social networks (since the decline of MySpace) that grew into…
A transatlantic magazines merger?
Nobody needs reminding that magazines are not what they were. Consumer and advertising revenue have been shredded and so have a large number of print magazines that had enthralled generations…
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