Newsonomics: These Are The 3 Fault Lines Redrawing The U.S. Media Business

On the surface, Meredith’s $2.8 billion buy of Time Inc. seems fairly straightforward: Leading women’s marketing company adds more digital and print audience to its roster of Middle America titles, with People the prime prize. But in that purchase we can also see the deeper tectonic shifts ...

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Who Will Buy Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Time and Two Major Cox Newspapers?

It’s time to reset the clock on Time Magazine, as well as its sister publications Fortune and Sports Illustrated. As Meredith Corp. announced its ability to close its long-anticipated buy of Time Inc.., , one door closed, but another opened. Though Meredith CEO Steve Lacy has ...

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What Are They Thinking? Cox’s Dawg Nation Itches the Local Niche

Mike Joseph, executive vice president of the Cox Media Group, needs a big nutcracker. ”We can win local,” he recently told a newspaper conference. “But national is a different story.” (Here he was referring to the quickening loss of national advertising dollars.) “So I got 58 million dollars I ...

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