Magazine for the super-rich Spear's launches on newsstand in London with £5...
Luxury lifestyle magazine Spear's is moving on to the newsstand as it approaches its tenth birthday next year. The title, which like Press Gazette is part of the Progressive Media group, will have a...
View ArticlePublisher Haymarket reports £5m profit on £184m turnover for 2014/2015
Magazine publisher Haymarket has reported an 8.7 per cent rise in operating profit to £5.03m for the financial year to the end of June 2015. The profit comes on revenue slightly down year on year to...
View ArticleUS publisher ALM acquires Legal Week from Incisive Media
Incisive Media has sold Legal Week to US-based publisher ALM. ALM said ithe deal would strengthen its "strategic presence in European and Asian markets and add to the company’s portfolio of legal media...
View ArticleBusiness publisher Ascential (formerly Emap) plans stock market listing to...
Business publisher and events group Ascential has confirmed plans to list on the stock market in a move that could reportedly value it at more than £800 million. The firm, which changed its name from...
View ArticleJournalists barred from security conference unless they agree to give...
The organisers of a security and defence conference have told journalists they may not attend unless they agree to submit reports of the event to them before publication. In order to attend Cyber...
View ArticleWhich? reveals high executive pay in first ever mid-year review ahead of...
Charity magazine Third Sector has published details of an investigation into pay at Which? It reveals pay this year of £819,000 for chief executive Peter Vicary Smith and £722,000 for managing director...
View ArticleChief exec of the company formerly known as Emap says 'you can't...
You can't sell news any more, according to business publishing chief executive Duncan Painter. The boss of Ascential (also formerlyand variously known as Emap, Top Right Group, Plexus, 4C and i2i) told...
View ArticleMarketing Magazine closes and folds content into Campaign because 'silos are...
Haymarket Media Group is folding its 85-year-old monthly specialist title Marketing magazine into sister advertising magazine Campaign saying that “silos are increasingly untenable” in trade...
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Campaign editor-in-chief Claire Beale says B2B journalism 'alive and kicking'...
Journalism is “alive and kicking” in the marketing and communications sector, according to Campaign editor-in-chief Claire Beale. Last Friday saw the first weekly print edition of Campaign following...
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Growing profits at The Economist suggest it has solution for news publishers...
Growing profits and turnover at The Economist suggest it has found the answer to the loss of advertising which is hitting most UK news media. Print advertising income at The Economist dropped from...
View ArticleLloyd's List publisher Informa in £1.2bn buyout of US events and information...
UK business publisher Informa has proposed a £1.2bn acquisition of US-based information and events company Penton. Informa publishes business information titles Lloyd’s List, Ovum (in telecoms) and...
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The great escape: As Computer Weekly turns 50, editor reveals how it learned...
The world’s first weekly technology newspaper – Computer Weekly – today celebrates its 50th anniversary. The London-based title has outlasted various online and print competitors and successfully...
View ArticleForbes aims to bring journalists and advertisers together on the page through...
Business magazine Forbes is aiming to bring journalists and advertisers together on the page through “co-storytelling”, a new approach it claims will need another “mindset change” in the newsroom. In...
View ArticleFuture boosts operating profit helped by e-commerce, but revenue declines -...
Consumer magazine publisher Future has recorded a boost in operating profit over the year to September while overall group and magazine revenue has declined. The publisher of more than 50 print titles,...
View ArticleDrapers, Construction News , Nursing Times and other former Emap titles put...
The media company Ascential, formerly called Emap, is going to sell off nearly all its “heritage” magazine and website brands. The titles up for sale are HSJ, MEED, Drapers, Nursing Times, Local...
View ArticleClosure of trade magazine Plastics and Rubber Weekly results in 18 UK staff...
Trade magazine Plastics and Rubber Weekly has closed after more than half a century of publication with 18 UK staff made redundant as a result, Press Gazette understands. An office in Croydon is also...
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Tech editor warns: News publishers working with Google and Facebook are like...
The relationship of many news publishers with Google and Facebook is like the frog in boiling water that doesn’t jump out until it is too late, according to a leading technology publisher. Drew Cullen...
View ArticleMarketing Week and The Lawyer to go monthly as Centaur Media looks to move...
Marketing Week is to change from a weekly to a monthly magazine as part of publisher Centaur Media’s long-term plan to move away from print. Chief executive Andria Vidler told Press Gazette the move...
View ArticleSkift founder Rafat Ali on why he regrets selling Paidcontent to The Guardian...
Business information is the area of the media which offers the biggest opportunity for investors according to entrepreneur Rafat Ali. Former journalist Ali sold the media news website Paidcontent,...
View ArticleIncisive Media back in private ownership following management buyout led by...
B2B magazine publisher Incisive Media has been taken back into private ownership following a buyout by its founder and members of senior management. The move returns the company to its independent...
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