ViacomCBS Inc. is close to selling CNET Media Group to Red Ventures LLC, according to people familiar with the matter, for $500 million, reports Benjamin Mullin of The Wall Street Journal. Mullin writes, “Red Ventures,...
Reuters deals reporter Echo Wang gave a behind-the-scenes look at how the M&A team has been covering the story of TikTok’s sale of its U.S. operations. Here is an excerpt: Q: What were some...
Wall Street Journal reporter Katie Roof has been hired by Bloomberg News. She started on Monday on the deals team covering venture capital-backed technology deals. Roof will remain based in San Francisco. U.S. deals team leader...
Michael Bloomberg will sell Bloomberg LP, the financial-data and media company he co-founded nearly 40 years ago, if he is elected president, reports Wall Street Journal reporters Lukas I. Alpert and Tarini Parti. Alpert and Parti...
MediaNews Group, owner of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, has bought assets of Red Wing Publishing/Big Fish Works, according to reports. The agreement encompasses a number of weekly newspapers including the Lakeshore Weekly News,...
ViacomCBS Inc. is weighing options for CNET after receiving takeover interest in the tech product review site, reports Ed Hammond and Nabila Ahmed. Hammond and Ahmed report, “A number of potential suitors contacted ViacomCBS about the...
Jason Booth has joined Activist Insight as a senior financial journalist. He will be based in New York. Booth joins a team of five journalists and will be covering all the information service’s platforms,...
Reuters has expanded its deals team in New York by hiring Krystal Hu to the team. There, Hu will be covering mergers and acquisitions in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. Before joining Reuters,...
According to Sky News, News Corp., owner of Dow Jones & Co., has negotiated a provisional deal with Tremor International, a London-listed ad technology company, to sell the advertising platform Unruly, which the company...
Acuris, a global publisher of financial news, data and analysis, is seeking a full-time Business News Reporter for its Mergermarket product to cover mergers and acquisitions. The reporter will be an important part of our expanding Charlottesville-based...
