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This was going to be a big year for the £1bn-revenue DMGT - and not just because it's the Daily Mail publisher's 130th anniversary. In 2022, owner Jonathan (Lord) Rothermere had realized a long-held f...

Flashes & Flames has gathered an unrivalled group of industry leaders to share their strategies, lessons and learnings from AI. Engage with the 32 CEOs and technology specialists who are participating in The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events 2026, in London on Wednesday 18 November. Biggest gathering for AI It’s the AI event of the year for executives and entrepreneurs in media, business information and event companies.

Hyperlocal news is not the only media genre whose declining fortunes, arguably, have more to do with broken business models than with a real change in audience appetites. After decades during which lo...

Time, alongside National Geographic, may be the ultimate, iconic magazine. Its red cover border is, of course, as instantly recognizable as the yellow of NatGeo. It was founded in 1923 by former Yale ...

Flashes & Flames has gathered an unrivalled group of industry leaders to share their strategies, lessons and learnings from AI. More than 30 CEOs and technology specialists are participating in The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events 2026, in London on Wednesday 18 November. Biggest gathering for AI It’s the AI event of the year for executives and entrepreneurs in media, business information and event companies. The biggest gathering of the industry’s leaders and tech specialists.

In MediaVoices’ recent Zero-click report, responses to Woodwing’s survey show that almost 98% of respondents had heard of the zero-click phenomenon, and 54% were very familiar. However, managing director John Fong points out that being aware of something and acting upon it are two different things. “You need to be aware of it, but you need to be on top of it,” he says, in this extract from the report.

Welcome to Flashes & Flames audio in the week when the subscriptions of Dow Jones, now the largest and most valuable part of the News Corp portfolio, grew by 7% to 6.7mn. And the New York Times continued its climb, now to 12.8mn subs. But I think the appointment of Christian Baesler as CEO of Business Insider is also a highlight as parent Axel Springer seeks – finally – to make a success of its 10-year-ago $400mn acquisition. Its future will, of course, be all about subscriptions.

Reach Plc is the UK's largest commercial news group. The listed company the national brands, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Express, and Scottish Daily Record, and some 24 regional dailies in most of...

William Reed is the 162-year-old, family-owned B2B information and events publisher focused on the food, drink and hospitality industries. Its £80mn revenue has multiplied more than 7x since 1995 when 100% of the profit had been generated by its founding UK magazine, The Grocer. At least 50% of revenue now comes from live events, powered by the highly successful ‘The World’s 50 Best’ series of awards for hotels, bars and restaurants.

Last month’s pause for breath was very temporary, and M&A advisers and lawyers have not had much time off for summer with 13 transactions announced in the last five weeks. This brings the years to...