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What next for Vox Media?
Vox Media is, perhaps, the only high-profile member of the digital media pack of the 2010s that is still going strong (relatively). While BuzzFeed, Vice and Quartz have all crumbled, Vox and…
Takeaways from the conference
Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing more of the insights and discussion from Monetising B2B. But here are some key takeaways from this week’s conference. For Flashes & Flames…
How AI really can boost media content
Let’s face it, Artificial Intelligence means very many different things to different people – in media as everywhere else. We should, arguably, avoid discussion about whether media content…
BraveBison swoops on Centaur
The long-awaited breakup of Centaur Media, the UK-based listed B2B, is about to begin. During the next four weeks, the company's best performing business, the MiniMBA eLearning, will be sold…
How Craig Fuller built a media group
Complicated global supply lines and market disruption prompted by the Trump administration's plans for tariffs and trade have been good news for at least one media company. The Sonar price…
Why radio + outdoor is safe for ads
As print advertising has declined and digital, in its place ,is eaten up by the likes of Google and Meta, other legacy ad markets have remained, to some degree, safe havens. One of these has…
Can Observer be a model weekend paper?
Tortoise Media, the UK-based, seven-year-old "slow news" startup – which has morphed into a lively podcast producer – last month acquired The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper,…
How I do it: William Jefferson Black, Transaction Advisors
The Chicago-based William Jefferson Black is co-founder and chair of the Transaction Advisors Institute. He had been an investment banker involved in M&A when he realised how little…
Has Delinian already got its money back?
Here's a heartwarming story. Delinian, the UK private equity-owned company, which bought some 75% of the former Euromoney B2B group may already have recouped most of its investment by selling…
Is this the end of Quartz or not?
I first started writing about Quartz in 2012, shortly after it was founded as a spinoff project by The Atlantic. Earlier this month, Zach Seward, one of the founders and the executive with the…
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