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Hearst celebrates 135 years and new business ventures

Jul 26, 2022
CEO Steven Swartz highlights the media giant’s important, if little-known, stakes in automotive information and B2B operations.
CEO Steven Swartz says the media giant is having an excellent year and remains open to acquisitions: "We're a good home for entrepreneurs."
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Hearst’s Joanna Coles says magazines are here to stay

Oct 11, 2017
"There is no secret sauce, apart from deep passion for women's journalism," says the chief content officer.
“I've had several female bosses," Joanna Coles says. “They've all been super supportive. I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.”
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Wireless providers look for new revenue streams

Jan 21, 2016
Verizon is the latest company to announce a "free" data program.

A piece in a jigsaw puzzle. A missing piece.

Apr 25, 2014
Marketplace Datebook for the week of April 28, 2014