Events
Stop the presses and take a tablet
17:00 - 18:00
(Lecture Theatre 4, Saïd Business School, Oxford)
Lecture by Tom Toumazis, CEO of Mecom*
Moderated by David Levy, Director, RISJ
* Mecom is a news and information publishing business active in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Poland. It is listed on the London stock exchange and faces a range of challenges familiar from across the publishing industry, including debt problems, declining advertising revenues, and questions about its growth potential. In 2011, disagreements over how to tackle these led Mecom CEO and founder David Montgomery to leave the company.
In May last year, Tom Toumazis was named as the new chief executive. He comes to Mecom from the television business; he was CFO at Endemol before taking up his current job.
Invoking inspiration from pay television, he has argued that the future of the business will be built on basis of the 1.2 million subscribers to the group’s 40 paid titles, pointing out in an interview with the Guardian that "Mecom has more subscribers than any of our European peers and more than the entire UK national newspaper industry."
On March 7th, he will talk about the strategic review and restructuring Mecom is undergoing under his leadership, and the future of the publishing business.
Toumazis will be speaking in a personal capacity.
All welcome - please register with kate.hanneford-smith(at)politics.ox.ac.uk
Organizer: Reuters Institute, the Media Oxford Business Network and the Oxford Media Society