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WPP's Sorrell tries to stem more Y&R defections

WPP’s Sorrell tries to stem more Y&R defections

By Staff on September 10, 2012

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been touring Australia (two days’ worth anyway, it’s only a continent) and one of his duties has been to try to persuade high profile Y&R Brands boss Russell Howcroft (left) not to join Lachlan Murdoch’s Channel Ten TV operation but to stay put. Y&R Brands includes GPY&R (formerly George Patterson) [...]

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Murdochs nowhere to be seen, as heads begin to roll

Murdochs nowhere to be seen, as heads begin to roll

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 [...]

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Does James Murdoch's BSkyB exit mean that his media career is over? And, maybe, dad Rupert's too?

Does James Murdoch’s BSkyB exit mean that his media career is over? And, maybe, dad Rupert’s too?

By Stephen Foster on April 3, 2012

It’s no great surprise that James Murdoch has chosen to resign as chairman of British pay-TV company BSkyB in the wake of the phone-hacking and other scandals at his dad’s News Corporation (39 per cent owner of BSkyB). James has become an embarrassment after his disastrous reign as chairman of News Corp’s News International which [...]

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Murdochs are on the couch says Vanity Fair as family squabbles over succession following phone hacking scandal

Murdochs are on the couch says Vanity Fair as family squabbles over succession following phone hacking scandal

By Stephen Foster on November 3, 2011

Rupert Murdoch’s children have been consulting a pyschologist to try to sort out the family succession to dad Rupert, founder, chairman and CEO of $44bn News Corporation, according to a report by Sarah Ellison in Vanity Fair. These family confabs have also included Murdoch’s eldest daughter Prudence from his first marriage (who has had no [...]

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Independent shareholders want James Murdoch out of News Corporation

Independent shareholders want James Murdoch out of News Corporation

By Stephen Foster on October 25, 2011

About 80 per cent of non-aligned or independent shareholders do anyway according to this analysis by the BBC’s Robert Peston of votes cast at last Friday’s AGM of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Nearly as many want elder brother Lachlan to leg it off the board too (although he’s had nothing to do with the News [...]

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Tuesday September 29, 2009 at the Labour Party conference - was this the day the wheels came off the News Corporation chariot?

Tuesday September 29, 2009 at the Labour Party conference – was this the day the wheels came off the News Corporation chariot?

By Stephen Foster on October 19, 2011

The scene was Brighton, England and embattled UK prime minister Gordon Brown had just tried (and mostly failed) to rally his battered troops. Leading Labour politicos at the party conference were no doubt looking forward to a few sustaining snifters at the News International party, News International being the News Corporation-owned company that published the [...]

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Murdochs face growing shareholder revolt at News Corp - does anyone want to buy the newspapers?

Murdochs face growing shareholder revolt at News Corp – does anyone want to buy the newspapers?

By Stephen Foster on October 11, 2011

US shareholders in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation are trying to gang up on Rupert Murdoch, his family and assorted cronies in an assault that, if even partly successful, will surely bring forward the day when the company’s newspapers, source of its current grief, are sold. The ISS investor advisory group has joined the clamour against [...]

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Now even News Corporation insiders are speculating about James Murdoch's departure

Now even News Corporation insiders are speculating about James Murdoch’s departure

By Stephen Foster on August 19, 2011

Well according to the usually conservative Reuters they are. The report has been denied officially by News Corporation, but it could hardly do otherwise. But it finally seems to be dawning on News Corp managers (although this might not include chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch) that the younger Murdoch’s position is increasingly untenable as he [...]

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Prospective employers tussle over former Y&R boss Hamish McLennan

Prospective employers tussle over former Y&R boss Hamish McLennan

By Stephen Foster on March 22, 2011

Hamish McLennan, chairman and CEO of WPP-owned Young & Rubicam, stood down in February, announcing he was to return to Australia for family reasons. Now, safely ensconced in Oz, he’s the subject of much gossip with some saying he’s being lined up to replace dumped CEO Grant Blackley at Lachlan Murdoch’s Ten Network TV business [...]

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Succession issues at Apple as Tim Cook steps in for Steve Jobs but it's not the only company facing them

Succession issues at Apple as Tim Cook steps in for Steve Jobs but it’s not the only company facing them

By Stephen Foster on January 18, 2011

Nobody doubts that Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook is capable of running Apple in the absence of visionary founder Steve Jobs, he’s done it twice before as Jobs, 55, battled with first pancreatic cancer and then a liver transplant. Cook is described as “one of the best supply managers in the world,” credited with [...]

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