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So why did UK PM David Cameron send all those text messages to former News boss Rebekah Brooks?

So why did UK PM David Cameron send all those text messages to former News boss Rebekah Brooks?

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 [...]

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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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Blow for Freud Communications as Best Buy seeks PR repitch after just a year

Blow for Freud Communications as Best Buy seeks PR repitch after just a year

By Stephen Foster on February 16, 2011

Giant US electrical retailer Best Buy’s foray into the UK has not been an unalloyed success with the company cutting back its planned store expansion to concentrate on online sales. The UK launch is a joint venture with Carphone Warehouse which has problems of its own, still struggling to integrate Tiscali into its Talk Talk [...]

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