Mathias Doepfner
Will Springer buy Washington Post?
Eight years ago in Berlin, Jeff Bezos was presented with the Axel Springer Award, whose other winners have…
13 February 2026
KKR deal ‘frees’ Springer to become news leader…
Axel Springer has agreed the long expected divestment of its classified advertising business to investor KKR. Under the…
20 September 2024
What next for Axel Springer?
Axel Springer, of Germany, is reportedly negotiating the $400m acquisition of Axios to add to its US-based news…
28 May 2021
How Axel Springer changed everything
The Berlin-based Axel Springer is selling its 51% share in the @Leisure Group, of Amsterdam, a rental company…
11 May 2019
Can Axel Springer do the ‘impossible’?
Stories about the reinvention of daily newspaper companies are often not what they seem. They tend to involve…
22 February 2016
How Axel Springer can be a digital media champion
Axel Springer is the picture of an ambitious traditional newspaper publisher torn between the persistent (but declining) profits…
25 April 2014