Mail Online boosted revenue to £60m in first six months, but not yet in profit
Revenue growth at Mail Online more than made up for decline at the Mail print titles in the first half of this year. The website, which attracts around 15m unique browsers per day, reported revenue up...
View ArticleAscential sells 11 former Emap magazine brands to Metropolis for £23.5m
Ascential has sold 11 business media brands which were formerly part of Emap to Croydon based publisher Metropolis for £23.5m. The titles sold include some of the most famous names in business to...
View ArticleCentaur spends £13.4m on telemarketing business after selling off home...
Centaur Media has announced the acquisition of MarketMakers, the UK B2B marketing services business, for £13.4m. MarketMakers and its division ReallyB2B consist of “sophisticated” B2B telemarketing,...
View ArticlePost Brexit collapse in value of the pound helped boost nest egg of...
The pro-Remain Guardian was given a significant financial boost by a collapse in the value of the pound following the UK’s vote to leave the European Union in June 2016. The value of Guardian Media...
View ArticleFE Week successfully challenges training giant Learndirect's legal gag on...
Further education magazine FE Week has won a legal battle with the UK’s largest training provider allowing it to reveal details of a damning Ofsted report. Private equity-owned Learndirect has some...
View ArticleEuromoney suspends Global Telecoms Business events after Press Gazette...
One of the UK’s largest business publishers has launched an investigation after Press Gazette provided it with evidence of commercial influence over supposedly independent awards judging. Euromoney...
View ArticleWilmington to shut down Solicitors Journal after 160 years in print
Business information company Wilmington is close Solicitors Journal and Trade & Forfeiting Review with seven editorial jobs set to go. Weekly Solicitors Journal has been published for 160 years but...
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Newsquest hopes to stand out with digital business magazine that has animated...
The Northern Echo has launched a free digital business magazine with “animated” pages that is delivered straight to subscribers’ inboxes Business Echo is a 68-page interactive magazine that will...
View ArticleNew Oldham Evening Chronicle owner relaunches title's free business magazine
The new owners of the Oldham Evening Chronicle have relaunched a free, quarterly business magazine serving the area and given it a “more contemporary” design. Oldham Business Edge was first launched in...
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Oldham Chronicle owners launch lifestyle magazine while South Wales Argus...
There have been two new magazine launches this week in the local press as the new owners of the Oldham Chronicle put out a lifestyle title while the South Wales Argus team turn their attention to...
View ArticleLloyds List publisher Informa and UBM in merger talks to create business...
B2B giant Informa was forced yesterday to reveal “preliminary discussions” of a deal worth as much as £3bn to buy events rival UBM, creating the world’s biggest company of its kind. Founded in 1998,...
View ArticleB2B publisher William Reed posts gender pay gap of 23 per cent but insists...
B2B publisher William Reed Business Media has revealed a mean gender pay gap of 23 per cent, favouring men. The publisher, whose titles include The Morning Advertiser, The Grocer and brands covering...
View ArticlePrint newsletter Rail Business Intelligence closes after 23 years as...
Print newsletter Rail Business Intelligence, owned by Railway Gazette Group, has stopped publishing after 23 years and 554 issues. The fortnightly missive for people in the railway industry was first...
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British Journalism Awards for Specialist Media now open for entries at early...
Press Gazette has launched a new set of awards aimed at journalists who work in specialist media. It is mainly aimed at specialist websites and publications, but specialist journalists working on more...
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Politico and Financial Times seen as most influential media sources at...
Politico and the Financial Times are seen as the most influential media sources for MEPs and other “opinion formers” in Brussels, a new Comres poll has found. However colleagues and personal contacts...
View ArticleNursing Standard names new editor as it moves to 'online-first' approach
Nursing Standard, which claims to be the biggest-selling title in the nursing profession, has announced Lynn Eaton as its new editor. Health journalist Eaton joins the now monthly trade magazine from...
View ArticleB2B publisher Vitesse buys Investment News in US expansion into market with...
B2B publisher Vitesse Media will buy Investment News for around $27.1m in its first step into the US market. Vitesse, will buy the New-York based magazine and website as part of its expansion strategy,...
View ArticleBritish Journalism Awards for Specialist Media 2018: Full shortlist for...
Press Gazette is proud to announce the finalists for the first British Journalism Awards for Specialist Media. This new set of awards has been launched as a subset of the British Journalism Awards to...
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City AM news website downed for six hours by 'unprecedented technical issues'
City AM’s news website has been down for more than six hours today, with readers unable to access stories on a day when Westminster was targeted in a second suspected terror attack. The website, which...
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City AM making 'good progress' on fixing fault behind three-day website outage
City AM bosses say they have identified the fault that has left readers unable to access the business title’s website for the past three days and are making “good progress” to get it up and running...
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