• The Street, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 10:40 AM

"Meredith Corp. CEO Stephen Lacy says the media industry will be split into two categories: the consolidated and the consolidators," writesDes Moines Register's Marco Santana.  "There’s no confusion about the role" the company will take," with  future  acquisitions  focused on "our very, very large female consumer base," Lacy says further. He's still hungrily eyeing Time Inc., which Meredith was close to merging with in February. "We’ll see if ... there is any part of their portfolio they would like to do something different with," he tells Santana.

Meanwhile, "Time Inc. may need to rethink its brands and business model to be a successful standalone company,"  writes Leon Lazaroff, who asks media analysts to weigh in with suggestions for the company, including changing People's digital strategy to "go head to head with flashier, racier and sexier Web sites such as TMZ, dlisted, Celebitchy and DrunkenStepfather."

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