Industry Coverage

Broadwater & Associates serves media and information businesses, with a particular focus on print and electronic publishing.

Our newspaper industry coverage and experience includes dailies, suburban and rural weekly newspapers, legal newspapers, business journals, shoppers, traders, alternative newsweeklies and online services/web publishing.  Broadwater & Associates' professionals have advised many of the largest newspaper publishers, including Gannett Co., Inc., The New York Times Company, Hearst Corporation, The Copley Press, Inc. and E.W. Scripps, as well as numerous smaller and family-owned companies.

In their service to the book publishing industry, our professionals have handled acquisition, sale and valuation assignments for a broad range of publishers both in the United States and abroad.  Our coverage in this area includes adult and juvenile trade publishers, illustrated and reference publishers and religious publishers.

Broadwater & Associates profesionals have significant experience representing educational and professional publishers. Coverage in this segment includes basal and supplemental educational publishers, college and professional publishers, e-learning and distance learning companies.

Business-to-business communication and information is one of the largest and most diverse media industry segments.  Broadwater & Associates professionals have handled a number of transactions as both agent and principal in this sector.  The firm's coverage includes business-to-business magazine and newsletter publishing, trade shows and exhibitions, business directory publishing and database information companies serving the financial, legal, sales & marketing and human resource sectors.

Other industry segments covered by Broadwater & Associates include consumer magazine publishing, media distribution and wholesaling, direct marketing, outdoor advertising and directory publishing.

We do not, as a rule, advise companies in the live or filmed entertainment businesses or the recorded music industry.