Outsell Most Read Headlines in 2020

Outsell Most Read Headlines in 2020

Wondering what the industry’s most-read headlines were in 2020? Here are the top 50, collected by Outsell Headlines Editor Susan Brown and read by over 14,000 people each day — our industry’s finest! If you’ve been missing out, sign up to receive Outsell Headlines every day!

  1. Springer Nature Said to Kick off 1 Billion-Euro IPO This Month
  2. Knowledge Unlatched and EBSCO Information Services Announce Subscribe-to-Open Cooperation
  3. MeritDirect Acquires Compass Marketing to Expand B2B Data Offerings
  4. Psomagen-Macrogen Consortium Acquires All Patents and Data From US Company uBiome
  5. What Publishers Are Doing To Help During Covid-19
  6. Macmillan Lays Off Some Staff, Temporarily Cuts Some Salaries
  7. Textbook Publishers Sued by College Students Claiming Giants Conspired to Illegally Monopolize Lucrative Market
  8. Carlyle Makes Strategic Growth Investment in TriNetX; Acquires Majority Stake in Global Health Research Network
  9. F1000 Research Joins Taylor & Francis Group
  10. Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal Archives Now Available to Companies for Text and Data Mining
  11. Wiley Cuts Financial Forecast for Fiscal 2020
  12. Citing COVID-19, EBSCO Lays off Just Under 5% of Its Workforce
  13. Informa Cuts Executive Pay, Suspends Dividends and Issues New Equity
  14. OUTFRONT Media Announces Sale Of Sports Marketing Business
  15. Penske Media Pays $225M For Majority Ownership Of PMRC, Deanna Brown Expected To Exit
  16. LexisNexis Risk Solutions Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire ID Analytics from NortonLifeLock
  17. Disney Sells Ad-Tech Firm TrueX to Gimbal
  18. J2 Global Announces Agreement to Acquire RetailMeNot
  19. Scripps Creates National Television Networks Business with Acquisition of ION Media
  20. Mitratech Acquires Acuity ELM, Enhancing its Legal Operations Solutions Portfolio
  21. The Washington Post Will Soon Be Gone from LexisNexis
  22. Britain’s Informa in Search of Replacement for Long-Time Chairman
  23. Guardian Media Group Appoints Annette Thomas as Chief Executive
  24. RELX Interim Results 2020
  25. Springer Nature Extends Digital Flexibility in Its New eBook Offers
  26. IBM to Break up 109-Year Old Company to Focus on Cloud Growth
  27. MarketCast is Expanding its Data Science Services for Media and Entertainment Companies and Brands
  28. Dun & Bradstreet Acquires Orb Intelligence
  29. Wiley Acquires mthree
  30. McGraw-Hill and Cengage Jointly Agree to Terminate Planned Merger of Equals
  31. Digital Book World Bans Macmillan Employees In Response To Library Embargo; Creates Library Scholarship
  32. Clarivate to Combine with CPA Global
  33. KKR to Acquire Digital Reading Platform OverDrive
  34. SAGE Publishing Launches Free-to-Access Research Collection on Structural Racism and Police Violence
  35. Ebiquity Acquires Digital Media Monitoring Firm Digital Decisions
  36. Google Agrees to Pay News Publishers More than $1 Billion
  37. At Informa, Virtual Events Are a Testing Ground for Exhibitions’ Hybrid Future
  38. McGraw-Hill Reports Company-Wide Sales of Digital Products Overtake Print for the First Time in a Fiscal Year
  39. Masimo to Acquire Connected Care Business from NantHealth
  40. Frankfurter Buchmesse 2020 Set to Take Place
  41. IWA Publishing Launches Pilot to Flip its Entire Journal Portfolio to Open Access Using the Subscribe-to-Open Model
  42. Wiley Accelerates Innovation in Research Publishing
  43. EBSCO Invests in Two Research Platforms
  44. IHS Markit Launches Its Data Lake, Delivering Over 1,000 Datasets Into an Integrated Catalogued Platform
  45. Publisher Springer Nature Revives IPO Plans, New Bank Consortium
  46. Pearson 2019 Results
  47. Microsoft Teams Rolls Out Virtual Rooms to Fight ‘Meeting Fatigue’
  48. Postmedia Content Is Now Accessible for Free
  49. BC Partners Seeks to Sell Springer Nature Stake to Itself
  50. Publishers Try Out Alternative Pathways to Open Access