Kevin Beatty, CEO of dmg media, was elected 2nd Vice President of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and is second in line of succession to President Tomas Brunegård, following New York Times Vice Chairman Michael Golden.
It will not be until 2018 that the distribution and scale of virtual reality will become mainstream, and the evolution of smartphones and social experiments will be key factors in contributing to that development, according to Justin Hendrix, Executive Director of NYC Media Lab.
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) (“Gannett” or the “Company”) today issued the following statement regarding its $15.00 per share all-cash, no financing contingency, premium offer to acquire Tribune Publishing Company (NYSE:TPUB) (soon to be renamed “tronc”) (“Tribune”).
Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) today announced the acquisition of CCI Asia-Pacific Ltd., the Hong Kong-based publisher of Fortune China, Fortunes Chinese-language edition.
With an explosion in mobile news growth on the African continent, WAN-IFRA continues to showcase the innovation taking place there, now in the form of an inaugural Digital Media Africa conference and Awards competition.
Ad blocking has caught the attention of news publishers the world over, serving as a wakeup call about how to improve the overall online user experience. That is just one of the key findings in a just-published WAN-IFRA research report on the contentious topic, and that will be presented at the World News Media Congress next month in Cartagena.
The Local Media Consortium (LMC) today announced that Tribune Publishing Co. (NYSE:TPUB) has joined the strategic alliance of local multiplatform media and technology companies.
