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Who will buy Northstar Travel Group?
Northstar Travel Group is for sale after eight years of ownership by EagleTree Partners / Wasserstein. The US-based company’s major brands include: Travel Weekly (in the US, across Asia,…
Still some miles left in car media
Cars used to be incredibly big business for media. Car sections, car ads, and, once upon a time, car classifieds, were a major revenue stream for pretty much everyone, simply because cars were…
The end game: 3 questions for Murdoch
There’s a perfect storm brewing in the $18bn News Corporation. First, there is the Succession-like battle in which Rupert Murdoch is trying to change the terms of his family trust in…
Oceans of potential for AI
There are many things about shipping that can be under-estimated. First, more than 90% (and rising) of the world’s trade is still carried by ships. In global terms, airfreight is scarcely a…
Powering UK podcaster eyes US
It’s a long time since consumers became accustomed to the ready availability of print media brands, for example, on smartphones, tablets and laptops. Now, they equally expect to find their…
Google braces for US-Europe legal attacks
Big Tech’s dominance of the digital advertising market has been the big, unchanging story for more than a decade for the reluctant media industry. But there now seems to be a real…
Trade show body CEO steps down
Kai Hattendorf, CEO of UFI, the global association of the exhibition industry, is stepping down at the end of the year after having led the Paris-based trade body since 2015. UFI (which…
The Guardian in crisis
The Guardian is in crisis. It is believed to have made losses of almost £40mn in the year ended 31 March 2024 – the worst for eight years. The full financial results for Guardian Media…
University rankings for sale
Times Higher Education (THE), the 53-year-old, UK-based universities ranking business is expected to be marketed early in 2025. The company, whose main brand is THE World University Rankings,…
Nineteen trade shows profit
The UK-based Nineteen Group trade show organiser last year broke through into EBITDA profit for the first time since its 2018 (re)launch. It made a 16% EBITDA margin on £31mn revenue (2022:…
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