Reed Elsevier, parent company of Reed Business Information (RBI), is close to completing a deal that would grant a three-year extension of $2 billion of loan debt.
FT.com: RBI publisher may extend loan debt
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Falling Off A Blog: The online equivalent of a magazine production desk
RBI’s Karl Schneider on implementing new digital operations at the magazine publisher.
Timeline of RBI sale
Since announcing the ‘divestment’ of magazine publishing arm Reed Business Information (RBI), the sale by parent company Reed Elsevier has been the centre of much speculation.
Below is a timeline (created using Dipity) of the events so far – if there are any missing, let me know:
Dow Jones: RBI buyer to be announced by October, says Reed Elsevier
A buyer for Reed Elsevier’s B2B publishing arm RBI is expected to be announced in October, a memo from Marianne van Leeuwen, the chief executive of Reed’s Dutch operations, has said.
Inflection Point: Pay per performance for online journos
Journalism.co.uk wrote a story last week about comments RBI managing director Jim Muttram made to the PPA conference about performance related pay for journalists.
Back on his own blog Jim has posted about the hubbub surrounding the issue.
“If any pay for performance scheme were ever to be implemented in a blanket fashion that very well might be the result – which, for the record, would be a bad thing!
“However, in an online world where attention is firstly more valued and more difficult to get, and secondly increasingly measurable it surely comes as no surprise that questions about how to maximise it arise from time to time.”
I recommend a click through to read the whole post.