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What newsletters really mean
The first known newsletters were exchanged between officials and friends in ancient Rome. By the fifteenth century, merchant families used newsletters to share news about the price and…
Why The Athletic is burning
The Athletic burned through $95m during 2019 and 2020, reflecting the cost of building a 600-person reporting staff to cover local sports in both the US and Britain, according to The…
What’s AgriBriefing’s big deal?
The London-based AgriBriefing is gearing up for M&A after selling-off its original UK business. This is what we now know about the divestment that effectively halved the B2B information…
The Economist shows how
Business leaders often get prickly when their strategies are pulled apart by mere journalists. It's more irritating still when a picky reporter works for a media organisation that itself is…
Infopro Digital for sale – or IPO?
TowerBrook Capital Partners is preparing to sell its 74% stake in Infopro Digital (IPD), the France-based company which is one of the five largest B2B media groups in Europe, and increasingly…
Substack is coming for you
About this time last year, the media industry got terribly excited about newsletters. One of the sources of that excitement was a seemingly left-field tech business called Substack, a…
Can inflight magazines survive?
Sixty years ago, Pan Am (remember them?) published the world's first inflight magazine. Although the legendary airline itself lasted only another 30 years before going bust, inflight magazines…
What Politico means to all media
Axel Springer announced last month that it would be paying "close to $1bn" (believed to be 5 x revenue and 15 x EBITDA) to acquire the 14-year-old US-based Politico (and its European JV) from…
Trade shows splutter into life
The recovery of the trade show market continues. But diverse factors including restrictions on travel, transport and public gathering, personal fears, and the economics of participating…
Immediate faces the teen test
Immediate Media next month celebrates its 10th anniversary. On October 31, 2011, Exponent private equity acquired BBC magazines for £121m and merged it with the specialist publishers Magicalia…
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