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The first half of the year for Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) saw ad dollars stabilize, though executives expressed a greater degree of caution regarding th...
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Affluent ad-focused Martini Media Network has raised $6 million second round led by Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) Ventures. Granite Ventures and Venrock participated in the round as well. While the b2b magazine division of Reed Elsevier has spent the past year selling off periodicals, the venture capital arms...
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It’s sold or shut dozens of magazines since aborting the planned sale of RBI whole; now parent Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) has also quietly off-loaded its German division to the Munich-based European Professional Publishers Group.

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Reed Business Information is shutting down 23 controlled circulation titles (listed below) in the United States, the almost-final phase of an often painfully slow divestiture effort that started last July after earlier attempts fizzled. Almost, because the company still has intellectual property and other assets to disperse. A Reed Elsevier (NYSE:...
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Reed Business Information—which has been busily unloading its magazines—has now sold Publishers Weekly, which had been in a state of deal-no deal limbo for more than a month. The publication is being sold to a new company led by George Slowik Jr., who was the publication’s publisher...
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Variety followed up Sunday’s Academy Awards with a different batch of envelopes, handing out pink slips to eight editorial staffers—including chief film critic Todd McCarthy and theater critic David Rooney—in its latest reorg. Reed Business Information has sold or plans to sell most of its U.S. titles that rely heavily on advertising but has...
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An all-hands staff meeting has been called for 9:30 a.m. at Publishers Weekly, according to a source familiar with the situation. PW is one of the remaining U.S. Reed Business Information titles the company has said it plans to divest; RBI plans to keep only Variety among its U.S. ad-supported titles. It’s possible that...
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