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How Marie Claire was born again
When the US edition of Marie Claire quietly closed its print edition last week – just four months after Future plc acquired the Hearst-led JV that had produced it for 27 years – no one…
What next for Martin Sorrell?
Last year was painful for advertising. Of course. The major international groups shrank, issued profit warnings and tried to assess the impact on their industry of the Covid19 digital…
Where is ‘secret’ Red Ventures going?
Ricardo (Ric) Elias is one of the world’s most fascinating business leaders but you may not know his name. Unless you are one of the 8m people who have watched and listened to his TED…
Can Phuzion save print ads?
As media businesses emerge – some bruised, some dazed, some in surprisingly rude health – from the latest lockdowns, one surprise winner stands out in the UK: the humble QR code. Yes, that…
Why The Guardian must change
This is the season for Brits to argue about not-for-profit media. The publicly-owned BBC is being urged to devise funding arrangements eventually to replace the archaic ‘TV…
Springer buys Politico. CNN next?
Axel Springer, the €3bn-revenue German media group part-owned by KKR private equity, has agreed to buy the Washington DC-based Politico from publisher Robert Allbritton. The deal values…
How Mail Online is making it
Next year will mark 100 years since the foundation of what is now the Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) by the UK tabloid pioneer Lord Northcliffe. It will also be 90 years since it was…
Is niche the future of news?
Much is made of the fact Generation Z is not interested in mainstream news. But the truth is, it’s worse than that: hardly anyone under 40 is. The UK – onetime haven of national daily…
AgriBriefing sells its ‘home’…
Former UBM trade show executive Simon Foster’s new Arc company has completed its first acquisition in the UK – and is known to be in exclusive negotiations for at least two other…
What next for UK’s oldest media group?
The Scottish port city of Dundee has a population of some 150,000, is almost 500 miles from London, and is uncomfortably high in the UK’s child poverty league table. But it is also the…
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