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DMGT buys building show
The Daily Mail Group, of the UK, has acquired Addisbuild, the longest-running building and construction exhibition in Ethiopia,…
What’s next for Dennis?
The global lockdown is accelerating the shift from traditional media to digital. It may (or may not) be…
Can Future do the deal?
Magazines group Future Plc made losses of £7m in 2014, the year its CEO was appointed. Last year,…
UK newspapers feel US heat
UK newspapers hardly resemble the US market. The old Fleet Street national brands still dominate UK dailies and…
Can Daily Mail beat family curse?
The UK’s Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) and Hearst Corporation, of the US, can each claim to…
Forget Oscars, here are ‘The Dinkies’
Welcome to the first ‘digital-from-ink’ awards (“The Dinkies”), to recognise the successful transformation of primarily consumer print-centric companies.…
Trinity Mirror lessons for newspapers everywhere
It’s been another ‘bad news’ month for UK newspapers. Just a few weeks after Vice founder Shane Smith…
Why newspapers must dare NOT to be daily
It is almost 200 years since the UK’s pioneering railway network created the opportunity for daily newspapers to…
Heroes & Villains: Oprah celebrates, Wenner mis-fires
Heroes Oprah Winfrey: It is 15 years since Oprah Winfrey chose to channel her motivational “you-can-do-it” spirit into a…
What ‘new media’ should mean for publishers
Thirty years ago, the world’s largest B2B publisher (then called Reed International) de-merged a nascent exhibitions division from…