News Corp wants to give people an alternative to Google News and Apple News. The media company that owns Dow Jones Newswires and HarperCollins is working on its own news aggregation service, reported The Wall Street Journal. The service will be calle... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2019-08-22 21:14:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House is set to acquire the book publishing assets of F+W Media following the media company’s bankruptcy, with the effects on F+W's UK division unclear. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-17 19:21:17 UTC ]
While many publishers remain hesitant to produce videos for Instagram’s IGTV without a formal monetization system in place, Meredith Corporation is rolling out a slate of 20 original series for the long-form, vertical video app. The media company has launched 18 series across its brands to date,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2019-05-23 17:10:11 UTC ]
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at the YouTube Brandcast 2018 presentation at Radio City Music Hall on May 3, 2018 in New York City. Credit: Taylor Hill/FilmMagicMark your calendars: TV networks and digital publishers are gearing up to make their annual pitches to media buyers and marketers in their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The pink financial paper has used online subscriptions since 2002. After decades of diminishing ad returns, fellow digital publishers are finally catching on. Late last year, the Financial Times reached a pretty big milestone: It exceeded 900,000 paying subscriptions, both print and digital–up... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The media company and publisher, home to such magazines as 'Men's Health' and 'Prevention,' along with Rodale Books, is considering its strategic options, which include the potential sale of the publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
TV networks and digital publishers are gearing up for their annual pitches to media buyers and marketers on upcoming programming and ad products, but it appears there will be far fewer glitzy presentations and parties than in years past.Nickelodeon will kick things off in March, but parent... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jim Bankoff turned Vox into a content juggernaut, a purpose-built digital media company; at PubTech Connect, he’ll discuss what it takes to build the media company of the future Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Verizon is trying to become a media company, but history isn't littered with examples of telecoms succeeding at content. It's hard to combine two radically different DNAs, build a publishing arm from scratch and change consumer habits. When you have different businesses, it can be difficult to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
After several years in limbo, Rugged Land is back as a media company with interest in print and digital publishing, television, and film. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Tribune Publishing investor sued the media company's directors and Chairman Michael Ferro for spurning an $864 million buyout offer from Gannett and seeking a cash infusion from a billionaire health-care entrepreneur.Tribune's board members are seeking to unfairly entrench themselves by taking... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ever since Vice decided to get into the cable TV game, the self-assured digital news and lifestyle publisher has been under the microscope. That came blaringly to the fore last month when Variety reported that Vice's web traffic plunged in February. But after free-falling 17.4 percent, from... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The media company behind Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country is creating a new vertical all about the science of cooking. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion has acquired a new series of cookbooks from one of the UK’s leading food magazines. Jillian Young, non-fiction editor at Orion Books, has bought world rights from Immediate Media Company for Olive: 100 of the Best, a new series of cookbooks written in association with Olive... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
There’s a huge problem at the moment in journalism and the publishing industry, which is that no journalism or media company has figured out how to actually fund their content in this new age of the Internet. The big reason is that newspape ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since Time Inc. became an indepedent publicly traded company last June, executives at the nation's large magazine publisher have tried to convince Wall Street investors that it's quickly transforming into a digital-first media company. It's certainly made strides, introducing video series,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gannett, the media company that is spinning off its publishing business, said Tuesday it'll run its broadcasting and digital units under the new corporate name TEGNA. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
There's always been a loyal base of listeners who download podcasts weekly, but thanks to the popularity of shows like Serial, more people are paying attention to the digital format. And the digital media company The Slate Group is betting demand will only continue to increase. In late... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
The sky-high valuations of digital publishers such as BuzzFeed and Vox are fuelled by the idea that the media company of the future also has to be a tech company. Almost every new digital media business from Mashable to Pierre Omidyar's First Loo ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The popular Canadian radio host, and planned host of this year's Giller awards, has filed a lawsuit against the media company over wrongful termination. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]