By Stephen Foster on March 28, 2013
***The JWT India storm about Ford ads that’s resulted in the departure of top creative Bobby Pawar just shows how corrupt the whole awards thing is (and much else, of course). There’s clearly a huge scam going on with faux awards entries, cheerfully paid for by the client (in most instances). Essentially, it’s run an [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Politics | Tagged ads, arrests, Bobby Parar, commercial rabbit, ford, google, journalists, jwt india, Kate Middleton, leveson inquiry, moreabout advertising, pc plod, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 13, 2012
Rebekah Brooks (pictured) and her former racehorse trainer husband Charlie have been arrested as part of Scotland Yard’s Operation Weeting probe into phone hacking – the second time for Rebekah, this time on suspicion of ‘perverting the course of justice.’ Today is the first day of National Hunt racing’s Cheltenham Festival, which the horsey couple [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Adam Boulton, arrests, Barack Obama, BBC, charges, Charlie Brooks, Cheltenham Festival, Clive Goodman, David Cameron, Glenn Mulcaire, horse racing, Jame Murdoch, News International, news of the world, Nick Robinson, operation elveden, operation weeting, payments to police, police horse, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, sky
By Stephen Foster on February 27, 2012
Job done really as Rupert Murdoch’s hastily-launched seventh-day Sun sold out in many locations yesterday and pulled in an impressive list of advertisers, not all of the from WPP’s GroupM, his biggest ally in the business of re-establishing News Corp’s UK newspaper revenues and profits. And here’s the old boy himself (and Sun editor Dominic [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Andy Hayman, arrests, Conrad Black, daily star sunday, Daily Telegraph, Dominic Mohan, groupm, launch, leveson inquiry, metropolitan police, news corporation, Rupert Murdoch, sunday edition, sunday mirror, the people, the sun, the times
By Stephen Foster on February 22, 2012
Well there’s a line and a half for you but this is the one Rupert Murdoch and News International hope will persuade about two and a half million people to buy the Sun – not ‘The Sun on Sunday’ it would appear – on Sunday. That’s the number of readers supposedly up for grabs as [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged arrests, Dominic Mohan, groupm, launch, mec, mediacom, mindshare, News International, phone hacking scandal, press spending, Roy Keane, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, the news of the world, the sun, the sun on sunday
By Stuart Smith on February 20, 2012
News reaches me that Publicis Groupe has raided one of its most important marketing services outlets in China, after corrupt practices came to light. Betterway/Publicis Dialog, the outlet in question, is China’s largest field marketing network, with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu and Guangzhou. The company is said to have raided its subsidiary last week [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged arrests, beijing, betterway/publicis dialogue, chengdu, China, china mobile, china telecom, guangzhou, Jenny Zhang, Kraft, Microsoft, publicis groupe, raids, shanghai, Stuart Smith, wrigley, York Huang
By Stuart Smith on February 13, 2012
A News International spokesman tells us Sun editor Dominic Mohan is “not resigning” in the wake of five more high-profile arrests of his senior colleagues. Well, thank goodness for that. Someone has to be there to switch off the lights, and there now seem precious few editorial staff of any standing who aren’t on bail, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged arrests, bskyb, Dominic Mohan, James Murdoch, ministry of defence, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, Sue Akers, Sun, sun on sunday, UK police
By Stuart Smith on January 30, 2012
Arrested: four senior Sun hacks, plus an allegedly bent copper. Is this the moment that damage to the Sun newspaper brand becomes systemic and unstoppable? Not if News Corp, which ultimately owns the title, has calculated correctly. After all, the information that led to the arrests – carried out as part of the Operation Elveden [...]
Posted in Media, News, PR | Tagged arrests, house of murdoch, Jamie Pyatt, leveson inquiry, news corporation, operation elevedon, Piers Morgan, police, Richard Wallace, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Bailey, trinity mirror, Will Lewis
By Staff on December 7, 2011
Well this is all a bit peculiar and no mistake. The Daily Telegraph alleges that Lord Bell’s PR and lobbying company Bell Pottinger advised its client Rebekah Brooks (pictured), former editor of the News of the World, Sun and then CEO of News International, about which particular police station she should turn up to be [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged arrests, Bell Pottinger, business secretary, chime communications, Daily Telegraph, David Wilson, independent sting, Lord Bell, News International, news of the world, political lobbying, Rebekah Brooks, Tim Bell, Tim Collins, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on July 7, 2011
“”It’s the rich wot gets the pleasure, it’s the poor that gets the blame,” goes the old adage (or something like that) and that seems to have been the attitude of the London Metropolitan Police in its approach to arresting the alleged miscreants in the News of the World phone hacking scandal. So tomorrow, according [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, arrests, James Murdoch, Keir Starmer, met police, news of the world phone hacking scandal, Nick Davies, Rebekah Brooks, Sir Paul Stephenson, the guardian
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