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How I do it: Tony Robinson, UKI Media & Events
Tony Robinson is chairman and founder of UKI Media & Events. The 31-year-old company – known as UKIP until the acronym was nabbed by the United Kingdom Independence Party – has…
27 May 2022
4 minute read
How Bloomberg is targeting the FT
Bloomberg is in some ways a strange beast: A world famous $10bn+ revenue media company that isn’t really a media company. Not that you’d necessarily know that from its recent…
27 May 2022
4 minute read
How Condé Nast went from mags to Oscars
Less than 20 years ago, there was a magazine industry full of single-minded companies for whom print was a high-margin business funded by readers and advertisers, and staffed by careerists who…
20 May 2022
11 minute read
How I do it: Rafat Ali, Skift
Rafat Ali is the CEO-Founder of Skift, the 10-year-old US-based travel industry events, research and information business. He was the founder of paidContent and ContentNext, which he sold to…
19 May 2022
6 minute read
Can Quartz make it at last?
Acquisition of the 10-year-old Quartz business news brand by G/O Media last month was yet another example of a digital media pioneer seemingly failing to live up to its founding…
19 May 2022
5 minute read
The quiet man who has ‘made’ Hearst
Hearst Corp executives are planning celebrations this year to mark the 135th anniversary of what was, arguably, the world’s first media group. (William) Randolph Hearst’s heirs and…
13 May 2022
13 minute read
What will happen to Vice Media?
In the summer of 2016, Vice Media co-founder and then chief executive Shane Smith took to the stage at the UK’s Edinburgh TV Festival to deliver what was pitched as a wake-up call to the…
12 May 2022
5 minute read
How I do it: Eric Everard, Easyfairs
Eric Everard is the CEO and founder of Easyfairs, a privately-owned pan-European exhibitions company based in Brussels. It organises some 150 events in 14 countries, and also manages eight…
8 May 2022
5 minute read
How vulnerable is the New York Times?
The 171-year-old New York Times (NYT) may be the world’s best example of the transformation of a domestic daily newspaper into an increasingly international digital news brand. More than…
6 May 2022
5 minute read
How DriveTribe got it so wrong
Ad-funded digital media is under predictable pressure. Vice, which was once valued at $5.7bn, is up for sale, having been forced to abandon its plans to IPO. BuzzFeed, whose SPAC IPO just beat…
6 May 2022
8 minute read
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