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Playing Field is a media group covering the industries that shape the global economy.

About

Playing Field is a global media group, home to the defining publications of the world’s most consequential industries.

Economies advance on information. Yet the industries that move the most capital are often the least understood — their expertise held by a small number of firms and the people who lead them.

Playing Field exists to make that expertise accessible. Each publication is reported from within its industry, through the principals who shape it, and becomes the authority in its field — the standard reference for how it works, and where it is going.

Today, the group publishes across private credit, infrastructure, hospitality, and technology investment, with further titles in development.

We’re building a home for the most curious people in every industry. Come join us.

How we do it

01

Choose

We pick an industry that matters and is under-covered.

02

Listen

We sit down with the operators, investors, and builders inside it.

03

Publish

We turn the conversations into a journal readers can use.

Pick an industry. Go deep.

A growing roster of journals,
one industry at a time.

The African Infrastructure Journal

The African Infrastructure Journal

Get inside Africa’s infrastructure boom.

Reporting on the projects, financing structures, and developers shaping the next decade of infrastructure across the continent — written through interviews with the people building it.

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The Hotel Capital Journal

The Hotel Capital Journal

Understand global hospitality capital.

Market analysis, investment strategies, and operator perspectives for capital allocators looking at the hospitality sector — from the people running the deals.

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The Private Credit Journal

The Private Credit Journal

Make sense of the private credit boom.

How private credit is being raised, deployed, and re-shaped — built from interviews with the GPs, LPs, and borrowers inside the trade.

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on the industries that move markets.

One short note a week on what we’re publishing, who we’re interviewing, and what we’re learning across the journals.