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Bidding for Fortune/Money has been strong

The bidding to acquire Fortune and Money magazines from Meredith has been strong, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post.

Kelly writes, “Sources say that bidding for the three has been surprisingly strong with the Fortune/Money combo and Time drawing bids close to $200 million each.

“First-round bids for all four titles landed May 11. Houlihan Lokey is handling the SI sale.

“That’s roughly the same early interest that SI was commanding by itself. Time, the onetime flagship, was said to be only marginally profitable, in the $2 million to $5 million range, but had the biggest digital audience of the trio.

“Fortune, with its big Fortune 500 issue and growing conference business, was seen as the jewel among the trio.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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