Press Gazette
British media trade magazine
Press Gazette, formerly known as UK Press Gazette, is a British trade magazine dedicated to covering trends in journalism and the media industry. First published in 1965, Press Gazette had a circulation of about 2,500 before going online-only in 2013. Published with the strapline "Future of Media", the magazine covers news about newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, and the online press, focusing on launches, closures, moves, legislation and technological advances affecting journalists.
Press Gazette is funded by subscriptions, recruitment and classified advertising, and display advertising. It is owned by GlobalData, which also owns the magazines New Statesman and Spear's.
History
Press Gazette was launched in November 1965 by Colin Valdar, his wife Jill, and his brother Stewart. Upon the Valdars' retirement in 1983 the magazine was sold to Timothy Benn, who sold it in 1990 to the Canadian publishing company Maclean Hunter. The magazine was sold again in 1994, this time to EMAP. Three years later the magazine was sold again, along with MediaWeek and 12 other titles, to Quantum Business Media for £14.1 million.
High-profile owners and closure
Rupert Murdoch's son-in-law Matthew Freud became the new owner of Press Gazette in May 2005, entering into partnership with former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan to raise around £600,000 to buy the title. The purchase was part of the break-up of Quantum Business Media by its owners, the venture-capital group ABN Amro Capital.
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