Business publisher Euromoney proposes 240 job cuts after Covid-19 hit to events
B2B information provider Euromoney is proposing to make more than 10% of its global workforce redundant due to the impact of Covid-19 on its events business. More than half of the 240 proposed job...
View ArticleInforma half-year 2020 results: £1bn+ cost of Covid-19 revealed as it books...
B2B information and exhibitions company Informa has cancelled more than £1bn of budgeted events revenue this year due to the impact of Covid-19. The result is revenue for the first half of 2020 down...
View ArticleBloomberg Media CEO Justin B Smith on new 24/7 streaming channel Quicktake...
As a business news giant with operations in 120 countries, Bloomberg Media suffered from the reverberations of Covid-19 across all major markets this year as the crisis plunged advertising and events...
View ArticleAudience data: The most popular business news websites in the UK
The Covid-19 pandemic boosted readership of digital news – and business titles have been no exception, looking at the most popular business news websites in the UK. Press Gazette analysis of Comscore...
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How US financial news brands Marketwatch and Barron's grew traffic in UK and...
Dow Jones has been building up its financial newsbrands Marketwatch and Barron’s in the UK and Europe – where it hopes to make them as well-known as they are in the US. Marketwatch recorded the biggest...
View ArticleThe future of events: Hybrid is the buzzword as Covid costs UK publishers £2bn
The coronavirus pandemic has cost the UK news industry more than £2bn in lost events revenue, but the future of events looks more positive as the industry puts into action lessons learned during...
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Henry Blodget interview: Why is Insider still thriving? Because we didn't try...
Not too long ago, Business Insider came across as the less trendy younger brother of Buzzfeed, Vice and HuffPost. It had no billion-dollar-plus valuation, its growth appeared steady in comparison, and...
View ArticleBloomberg Media CEO: Journalism industry needs more 'imagination, creativity...
The boss of Bloomberg Media has called on the journalism industry to show more “imagination, creativity and urgency” to battle back from the Covid-19 crisis. Justin B Smith, who has led Bloomberg’s...
View ArticleReuters paywall launch: Why CMO Josh London believes readers will pay for...
Global news agency Reuters is confident readers will pay for “news in context” as it prepares to compete with Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and others for digital subscribers behind a paywall....
View ArticleThe Economist grows subscribers by 9% to 1.1m in 2020/21 and pays back...
The Economist says it has reached 1,122,000 subscribers following record growth of 9% in the year to the end of March – its largest ever increase in a single year. This addition of 90,000 subscribers...
View Article'People need less screen time': Why fast-growing B2B publisher Mark Allen is...
Specialist publisher Mark Allen Group has launched two print titles with websites and events to come as it seeks out “virgin territory” in the market. The MA Business division has launched Consumer...
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Wirecard: How the FT proved the pen is mightier than a €24bn criminal gang
The FT Wirecard investigation began with a tip from a German hedge fund manager to Dan McCrum, a reporter on the title’s Alphaville markets blog. “Would you be interested in some German gangsters?”...
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Forbes CEO Mike Federle interview: Why the business brand is now worth $630m
In 1917, Forbes was founded in New York City as a fortnightly business magazine. In the coming months, it will enter the New York Stock Exchange as a digital media business worth $630m. When chief...
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CEO interview: B2B without paywalls, how Industry Dive grew into $80m...
When Sean Griffey launched B2B publisher Industry Dive in 2012, he and his co-founders would be happy if they had just a couple of users active on their specialist sites. Nearly a decade on, and...
View ArticleCEO interview: Business booms for Bloomberg Media thanks to ad ‘windfall’ and...
For the US media, 2021 was supposed to be a year when fortunes came crashing down to earth. The end of the ‘Trump bump’ was expected to give way to a slump exacerbated by Covid-induced news fatigue....
View ArticleFT-backed site for start-ups Sifted takes £4m for 25% stake two years after...
Financial Times-backed website Sifted, which covers the world of European start-ups, has raised £4m of investment funding for a 25% stake. Sifted was launched in January 2019 by FT innovation editor...
View ArticleSushi, sake and £5,600 bonuses all round: Happy Christmas for FT journalists...
Financial Times journalists are to receive bonuses of £5,600 this month after the publisher reported profits “well ahead of our business plan”. In an all-staff email seen by Press Gazette, chief...
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The Ukraine tech journalists battling to keep their B2B publisher afloat
Before Ukraine became synonymous with war and suffering, it had a thriving technology scene with accompanying specialist media. Press Gazette spoke to staff at Creators Media Group, the country’s...
View ArticleMail journalist cleared of insider trading after sharing market rumours with...
A Mail journalist who shared inside information with sources in the course of writing a market rumours column was justified in doing so, a European court has ruled. The journalist had been fined by the...
View ArticleFoundry president Kumaran Ramanathan: B2B journalism remains our ‘heart and...
Foundry may be the largest global media company you’ve never heard of. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the 58-year-old publisher – formerly known as IDG Communications – owns Macworld, Tech...
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