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By Stephen Foster on November 30, 2012
*The Leveson Inquiry into UK media ethics (or the lack of them) duly reported and proposed a very sensible system of, essentially, self regulation for the UK’s rumbustious national press, with a legal framework preventing the bastards from just ignoring the rules and doing what they always have done. All perfectly sensible – so off [...]
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By Stuart Smith on November 30, 2012
LOL – now he knows what it means – must have been David Cameron’s reaction after reading Lord Leveson’s report on the culture, practice and ethics of the UK press. First came an audible sigh of relief over the vindication of his own reputation, which– despite inappropriate platonic text dalliance with La (Rebekah) Brooks, now [...]
Posted in Analysis, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, David Cameron, Lord Leveson, media ethics, Murdochs, ofcom, proposals, Rebekah Brooks, Viscount Rothermere
By Stephen Foster on November 21, 2012
I’ve no idea how much has been spent on what we used to call corporate public relations over the last decade but it must run into many billions of whatever currency you choose. Since PR firms had the bright wheeze of calling their offer ‘reputation management’ (and you wouldn’t want to be without that would [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, autonomy, edelman, hewlett-packard, news corporation, omnicom, PR, Rebekah Brooks, reputation management, spinners, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 26, 2012
The British justice system grinds exceedingly slow and the date set for the Old Bailey trial of Rebekah Brooks (pictured with husband Charlie, also a defendant), Andy Coulson and sundry other News International employees on charges of phone hacking (and other alleged misdemeanours) is September 2013, a whole year from now. The police have already [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, News International, old bailey trial, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, the Murdochs
By Stephen Foster on August 9, 2012
News Corporation has announced that the costs of the phone hacking and other scandals at its UK newspapers have risen to $224m as it announces lower operating profits and a $2.8bn write-down its global newspaper business that plunged the company into a $1.55bn quarterly loss. Which makes you rather wonder why the company bothers with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance | Tagged Andy Coulson, loss, news corporation, newspapers, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, writedown
By Staff on July 24, 2012
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head… Well, Rebekah Brooks’ and Andy Coulson’s heads at any rate. Along with those of 6 other hacks from The News of the World (ob. 2011) and The Sun. It’s career death for them, whatever the outcome of a trial. And, frankly, things look pretty grim for [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Prudence MacLeod, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, The Daily Express, the mirror, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on May 10, 2012
That’s what we all want to find out from the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics tomorrow (Friday) when former News of the World and Sun editor, and latterly CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper operation News International, Rebekah Brooks takes the stand. How do we know Dave sent all these text messages, and that Rebekah [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, Charlie Brooks, chipping norton set, David Cameron, Jeremy Clarkson, leveson inquiry, Liz Murdoch, Lord Leveson, Matthew Freud, media ethics, news of the world, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, pr maven, Rebekah Brooks, Robert Jay QC, Rupert Murdoch, text messages
By Stuart Smith on March 6, 2012
The time has come to fess up to my role in Horsegate. I have ridden a horse since 2010, and more than several times too. It would be a surprise if I hadn’t, you see, because I own one. Well, two …er, three now I come to think of it, but that was an accident [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, Charlie Brooks, David Cameron, fox hunting, George Osborne, medusa, parliament, phone hacking, police horse, raisa, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Stuart Smith, the sun
By Staff on December 14, 2011
The notorious ‘for Neville’ email circulating at the News of the World in 2008 holds the key to the future of James Murdoch at News Corporation and, very likely, at UK pay-TV operator BSKyB which is 39 per cent owned by News Corp. The email, sent to the News of the World’s chief reporter Neville [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Andy Coulson, bksyb, Clive Goodman, for Neville email, James Murdoch, Milly Dowler, Neville Thurlbeck, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks
By Stephen Foster on November 30, 2011
Some might say the former News of the World and Daily Mirror editor is mired in it already of course but former News of the World features executive Paul McMullan, placed much of the blame for the now-defunct Sunday tabloid’s excesses firmly on the shoulders of Piers Morgan (pictured) when he testified under oath to [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Andy Coulson, cnn, daily mirror, itv, leveson inquiry, life stories, media ethics, news of the world, Paul McMullan, phone hacking scandal, Piers Morgan, piers morgan tonight, Rebekah Brooks
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