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Big News for Newspapers – an outlook on a challenged industry

Download PDF Introduction The first newspaper – a printed, dated, frequently published sheet containing news – was published in 1605 in Germany. In the following years many European countries started publishing newspapers with the first one written in English published in 1620 in Amsterdam. In the United States the first Read more…

By BSIC, 4 years11 April 2021 ago

Corporate Finance

BuzzFeed’s acquisition of HuffPost: a merger of survival

Download PDF BuzzFeed – privately owned company HuffPost – private company owned by Verizon Media Introduction On November 19th, 2020 BuzzFeed and HuffPost, two of the largest players in digital media, announced the latter’s acquisition in a stock deal. The transaction is part of a larger agreement between HuffPost’s owner, Read more…

By BSIC, 5 years6 December 2020 ago