What company finances reveal about the future of journalism, media and information Financial Signals is a periodic digest of key findings from the Global Media Finances Map, the financial tracking component of the Media Influence Matrix. Each edition draws on newly published company reports to surface patterns, contradictions, and structural developments in the economics of…
Digi Communications is formally a telecoms group, but in Romania it is also one of the country’s most consequential media owners. Through Digi Romania it combines dominant fixed-broadband and pay-TV distribution, a major 24-hour news channel, one of the country’s highest-traffic general-news websites, four national radio brands, and a premium sports-channel portfolio. In 2025 the…
Hanza Media, Croatia’s leading domestically owned national-scale newspaper publisher and the company behind the daily Jutarnji list, the regional daily Slobodna Dalmacija, the sports daily Sportske novosti and the women’s weekly Gloria, reported revenue of €39.1 million for 2025, up 2.2% on 2024, but profit slipped 8% to €434,000. That is a net margin of roughly 1.1% on a business…
Phoenix New Media, the New York-listed Chinese internet company behind ifeng.com and the ifeng News and ifeng Video apps, reported a tiny attributable net profit of RMB 0.336 million in 2025 (about US$48,000) after losses of RMB 53.6 million in 2024 and RMB 102.5 million in 2023. Total revenue grew 8.8%, but the improvement did…
Delfi AS, the Latvian operating arm of the Tallinn-listed Ekspress Grupp, reported a sharp jump in net profit for 2025, from €0.59 million to €1.78 million. Almost all of that increase came from a single transaction: the sale, in August 2025, of Delfi’s 25.48% stake in a Latvian fintech called SIA Altero. The buyer was a…
Dnevnik d.d., the Ljubljana-based publisher of Slovenia’s daily newspaper Dnevnik and the country’s most-read weekly Nedeljski dnevnik, spent 2024 reorganising itself into a holding-and-operating structure: the journalism, the journalists, the brands and the websites were all transferred to a new wholly owned subsidiary, Dnevnik Mediji, d.o.o., while the original company kept the real estate and the financial portfolio. What…
Petit Press, a.s., the Bratislava-based Slovak publisher of the national daily SME, the regional Korzár, the English-language Slovak Spectator, the MY regional weekly network and the country’s most-read news website sme.sk, reported in its financial year ended 31 December 2025 net turnover of EUR 20.36 million and a profit after tax of EUR 809,537, down from EUR 952,723 the previous year….
DPG Media Group, the Belgian family-controlled media company that is now one of the largest news and broadcasting operators in the Benelux, reported consolidated revenue of EUR 2,004.8 million for the financial year ended 31 December 2025, up from EUR 1,653.1 million on a restated prior-year basis. The group reported operating profit before depreciation, amortisation…
The AG für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Swiss publishing group whose flagship is the 246-year-old newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, reported total operating revenue of CHF 236.4 million (approximately EUR 252m / US$285m) for the financial year ended 31 December 2025, down 5% from CHF 248.3 million in 2024. Adjusted operating profit was CHF 12.7…
MFE-MediaForEurope, the holding company that brings together Mediaset in Italy, Mediaset España and ProSiebenSat.1 in the German-speaking markets, reported consolidated net revenues of EUR 4,031.1 million for the financial year ended 31 December 2025, up 37% on EUR 2,949.5 million in 2024. Group net profit was EUR 300.7 million against EUR 137.9 million a year…