With just over a month to go until the #CourierBizAwards2024 we are thrilled to welcome Gabby Logan to host this year's awards. 🏆 Fresh off her coverage of Euro 2024 and the Olympics, Gabby will help us celebrate the most outstanding businesses across Tayside and Fife. Take a look at this year's nominees here: https://lnkd.in/ez7W4fQT
About us
DC Thomson is a purpose-led content, technology and investments business, headquartered in Scotland but present in London and around the world. We own well loved and trusted brands that champion, entertain and bring together our communities, supporting them today, and for the future in driving positive change. Established in 1905, we are a privately owned, family run business with people, customers and communities at our heart. Family ownership means we can put our purpose first, acting and innovating for the long-term. While our roots are firmly in publishing, with a portfolio of newspapers and magazines, DC Thomson has diversified into digital technology, radio, TV and events. Using audience insight and data, we create content and experiences that connect with our customers and build loyal communities. Our trading companies include genealogy leaders Findmypast, cloud solutions business Brightsolid and we have an exciting portfolio of media brands including Beano Studios, The Stylist Group, Puzzler Media as well as communities in energy, local and national news, women’s and children’s magazines, lifestyle, teaching, crafts, sport and radio. DC Thomson has a long tradition of entrepreneurial investment and a portfolio across both private and public markets, spanning media, technology, retail, agricultural technology and the circular economy. We're modernising and ambitious, investing in technology and talent and building an inclusive, flexible and agile business where our people and partners feel that they are part of something extraordinary.
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http://www.dcthomson.co.uk/
External link for DC Thomson
- Industry
- Technology, Information and Media
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Dundee
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1905
- Specialties
- Consumer publishing including children's comics & magazines, Lifestyle/fashion and special interest publications, Digital Content, Media, Genealogy, Radio, News brands, Events, Technology, Digital platforms, and Communities
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Albert Square
Dundee, DD1 9QJ, GB
Employees at DC Thomson
Updates
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⛳ Scottish Golf Tourism Week, Scotland's biggest golf industry conference between global golf tour operators and Scottish businesses heads to Aberdeen in 2025. For more information head to: https://lnkd.in/ecUyvZsE.
📢Scottish Golf Tourism Week in association with Luxe Scot is back for 2025! The three-day event, formed in partnership between DC Thomson and VisitScotland will take place between 18-20 March, 2025 for the first time in Aberdeen at The Chester Hotel. Full details and how to register: https://bit.ly/3XxYVDC
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Our data journalism team track the occupancy rates of High Street units across half of Scotland’s cities, not purely as a source of stories, but to share insights and bring together local decision-makers to identify and deliver solutions to make High Streets a destination of choice. Check out the podcast from Journalism.co.uk where Lesley-Anne Kelly and Ema Sabljak share how they are tackling new challenges for data journalism.
Tackling new challenges for data journalism, with DC Thomson's Lesley-Anne Kelly and Ema Sabljak: How do you sort through murky ownership data when telling stories about vacant high street properties in Scottish cities? #digitalpublishing #journalism #onlinepublishing
Tackling new challenges for data journalism, with DC Thomson's Lesley-Anne Kelly and Ema Sabljak
journalism.co.uk
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Spotlight on Brett Murray 🔎 Brett is Digital Content Editor at Beano Studios with his role as wide-varying and exciting as you'd expect working with The Beano! Brett tells us all about his day-to-day here at DC Thomson, the best piece of advice he's ever received and what he likes to watch whilst eating some Nigerian food. #LifeAtDCThomson
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The Courier changed the face of international journalism when it sent writers Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell around the world in 1894. Senior features writer Graeme Strachan told us why their story is still so special today. #LifeatDCT
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Will you be in the tent? 🎪 E-FWD's Financing the Energy Transition is fast approaching and with an array of speakers including Ed Balls, spaces in the tent are going fast. Owen Wyatt tells you all about next month's event in Edinburgh below.
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"Magazines, through their multi-platform channels, can be a transformative partner in convening conversations, creating content and delivering events that affect positive change. At DC Thomson we’re rooted in these communities with a proud heritage of empowering them and delivering for them, we have the credibility and the influence to make a difference". In this article, our Chief Revenue Officer, Andy Williams shares examples of where our magazine brands are delivering impactful solutions for our partners.
Unlocking the power of magazine media: engaging audiences with impact Andy Williams, Chief Revenue Officer, DC Thomson shares some case studies where The People’s Friend, bunkered, and Stylist Magazine truly connected with their target audience through multi-platform magazine media. Read now: https://lnkd.in/egh5vMWY #Magazines #Insight
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Spotlight on Lesley-Anne Kelly 🔎 Lesley-Anne is Head of Data Journalism here at DC Thomson, working closely with both The Courier and The Press and Journal newsrooms. Spearheading the popular tracker projects - from the care sector through to the Dundee High Street and General Elections - get to know Lesley-Anne below 👇
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What has life at DC Thomson looked like this week? Here are a few highlights… #LifeatDCT
What has life at DC Thomson looked like this week?
DC Thomson on LinkedIn
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Our brands have been the voice of our communities for generations. Now, more than ever, it is vital for them to continue providing trusted, factual, community-focused journalism. Hear from Editor of The Courier, David Clegg who appeared on Sky News on why social media disinformation needs to be tackled.
A bit from me on Sky News on social media disinformation and the need to tackle it. This is why the trusted, community-focused journalism we create at The Courier is so important.