Hearst
Can Hearst UK break free?
It's tough being the child of successful parents. It's like that in business too. Take the Hearst Corp…
RIP: Derk Sauer media pioneer in Russia
Derk Sauer, the Dutch-born journalist, publisher, and entrepreneur who shaped modern Russian media with Western-style newspapers and magazines…
How Marie Claire was born again
When the US edition of Marie Claire quietly closed its print edition last week - just four months…
How Hearst is going ‘US first’
As if things haven’t been torrid enough for magazine publishers, recent developments are signalling yet more interesting times…
Future pushing deeper into US
Future plc - the UK's largest magazine publisher - has signalled further expansion with this week's acquisition of…
BuzzFeed ‘to buy Complex TV’
The Information reports that BuzzFeed is in talks to acquire digital lifestyle publisher Complex Networks from the Verizon-Hearst…
Magazines (mostly) in crisis
It’s been a bad week for magazines. Hearst announced it would “cease monthly print publication” of The Oprah…
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.…
Why ASOS is e-commerce warning for magazines
Women’s magazines are as captivated by e-commerce as their readers and fashion advertisers. And that’s saying something. In…
Can Australia’s best magazines recover?
Private equity group CVC is this week hosting directors of its Nine Entertainment Company, whose Channel Nine has…