Magazine Finance

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 2:00pm - Click here to view webinar

Ready to buy, borrow or recapitalize? This Webinar explores the various ways to attract financing for your new launch or acquisition. What options are available and which best fit a particular situation? What’s the macro economic outlook for 2008? Whether seeking angel investors or financing an acquisition, this Webinar will address the components necessary to complete the deal.

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Speaker 1:

Reed Phillips
Managing Partner
DeSilva & Phillips
Reed Phillips has wide experience in media mergers and acquisitions. In 1996, he co-founded DeSilva & Phillips, the leading M&A firm for the magazine industry. In the past 18 years, he has completed more than 175 transactions with companies such as ABRY Partners, Conde Nast, Court Square Capital, Dow Jones, Euromoney Institutional Investor, IDG, infoUSA, The New York Times, Primedia, Rodale, Time Inc., WPP and Ziff Davis. He has often been called upon to comment on the media industry by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News, Financial Times, and Vanity Fair. He was the winner of the “2007 Media Deal of the Year,” presented by Mergers & Acquisitions at the ACG’s InterGrowth Conference. Mr. Phillips' media industry experience includes positions as founder of Fathers, associate publisher of The New Republic, vice president of The Washington Weekly, and circulation director of The Washington Monthly. He holds an A.B. from Duke University.

Speaker 2:

Carla J. Blanco
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Publisher
3Digit Media, LLC
Carla J. Blanco is co-founder, CEO, and publisher of 3Digit Media, LLC, a Westlake Village, Calif.-based regional magazine publishing company. She is responsible for advertising sales, circulation, finance, and general operations for the company. Before starting 3Digit Media, Blanco was president of BlancoCirc, her own circulation and publishing consulting firm, where she assisted both small and large publishers on projects that included: magazine launches, circulation strategy, staffing, turnarounds, budgets, valuations, and due-diligence processes. Prior to founding BlancoCirc, Blanco held senior-level circulation positions with both consumer and b-to-b magazine publishers where she managed circulation files ranging from 20,000 on up to 500,000.