Early Morning Media

 About us

Early Morning Media has been formed by MSM Media, publishers of Shares Magazine, operators of the MoneyAM website and StockMarketWire with former executives from the business information and media monitoring industries.

As a new company, albeit with a wealth of experience and a large news-gathering resource behind it, we have no legacy systems and structures and as such are confident we can offer most customers reductions of between 20% and 50% in their current media monitoring spend.

People

Chairman

Niall Sweeney has extensive experience of launching and developing companies in the media sector.

After qualifying as a chartered accountant, he worked for Financial Times Business Publishing and the Daily Telegraph before setting up his first publishing company which was subsequently acquired by the Fairfax Group in Australia.

Over the next two decades he established and sold a further three successful media companies, the last of which was acquired by Incisive Media.

Niall is Chairman of Early Morning Media and a Director of MSM Media.

Chief Executive

Martin Knight has long experience in the business information and media monitoring sectors. Martin was a Manager, Business Information at the Financial Times before joining Arab Banking Corporation. He then founded and developed a series of companies in the media monitoring sector including Personality Profiles, Premium Monitoring, PressWatch and Precise Media. Precise was sold to 3i in 2005.

Other media monitoring brands that Martin formed, acquired or ran included Entertainment Press Cuttings Agency, Clipability, House of Cuttings, News Index, Pimms Press Monitoring, Performance Research Services and Energy Data Services (EDS).

Operations Director

Paul Liddiard began his career at the Financial Times working on the Currencies and Capital Markets page. He joined Extel Financial before being recruited to UBS Warburg as Manager, Information Resources. Since 1994 Paul has been working in the media monitoring industry most recently as Operations Manager at Precise Media.