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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 Stephen Foster on July 18, 2011
Met Police assistant commissioner John Yates, the senior policeman who investigated the News of the World phone hacking scandal and declared the matter closed despite being supposedly the cleverest person at Scotland Yard, has followed his boss Sir Paul Stephenson into early retirement as the fallout from the scandal continues to spread. Stephenson’s decision to [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, Boris Johnson, Cameron crisis, David Cameron, edelman, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, John Yates, london mayor, Matthew Freud, Neil Wallis, news corporation, News International, parliamentary committee, Rebekah Wade, resignations, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Paul Stephenson
By Stephen Foster on July 15, 2011
You don’t get to be Rupert Murdoch by rolling over before a bunch of UK MPs who have (belatedly it must be said) decided that it’s time to cut you and your media empire down to size. Well actually on this occasion Rupert Murdoch and his son James have; agreeing to appear before a Parliamentary [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged BP, congressman peter kind, edelman, elizabeth murdoch, fbi investigation, freud communications, harbottle & lewis, house homeland security committee, James Murdoch, law firm, long island, Matthew Freud, New York, parliamentary committee, phone hacking scandal, pr firms, Rebecca Brooks, Richard Edelman, Rupert Murdoch, shine, Tony Hayward, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on July 11, 2011
Amid all the Murdoch stuff in the UK newspapers at the weekend was a fascinating piece in the Mail on Sunday claiming that current News International boss Rebekah Brooks used to run fictional press releases from her PR buddies as front page stories in the Sun and the News of the World. The article, written [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Charlie Brooks, David Cameron, elizabeth murdoch, fake pr stories, freud communications, Jeremy Clarkson, mail on sunday, Matthew Freud, news of the world, news of the world insider, oxfordshire, Paul Dacre, phone hacking scandal, prca, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Sun
By Stephen Foster on May 19, 2011
Interpublic-owned Weber Shandwick, which claims to be the world’s biggest PR company, is entering the content game in London with the creation of what amounts to a 12-strong in-house creative department. The company, led by chairman Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer as was) and CEO Colin Byrne describes this process as ‘end-to-end idea management’ and told [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged Ben Padfield, challenge to ad agencies, Colin Byrne, creation, engine group, freud communications, in-house creative department, Interpublic, Lord Chadlington, m&c saatchi, Matthew Freud, Peter Gummer, weber shandwick, Youtube
By Stephen Foster on April 18, 2011
More than a few eyebrows were raised when Publicis Groupe forked out $100m for a 49 per cent stake in Brazil’s Talent agency last year (Talent employs about 230 people meaning they were worth nearly $1m each) but the French marcoms giant obviously likes what it’s seen, increasing its stake by 11 per cent to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged brazil, chemistry, freud communications, Jean-Yves Naouri, kitcatt nohr, Matthew Freud, olympics, publicis groupe, publicis worldwide, talent ag, wieden+kennedy, world cup
By Stephen Foster on April 15, 2011
Well that’s the obvious question isn’t it? Matthew Freud has just forked out about £40m to buy back Publicis Groupe’s 50.1 per cent stake in his UK PR firm Freud Communications (the second time he’s extricated himself from a marcoms company, the first was Omnicom). But you can’t really believe that he just wants to [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged David Cameron, elizabeth murdoch, freud communications, James Murdoch, Matthew Freud, news corporation, News International, news of the world, omnicom, phone hacking, publicis groupe, Rebekah Wade, Rupert Murdoch, Sigmund Freud, Simon Greenberg
By Stephen Foster on March 30, 2011
Well it’s an interesting one isn’t it? James Murdoch, currently chairman and CEO of News Corporation in Asia and Europe, is going off to New York to be deputy COO of the whole shebang and boss of international (including Asia and Europe). So it’s a promotion then? But it’s an extremely odd time to make [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bskyb, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, Matthew Freud, news corporation, News International, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch
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 [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, PR | Tagged best buy, carphone warehouse, Currys, freud communications, Liz Murdoch, Matthew Freud
By Stephen Foster on January 4, 2011
The ever-restless PR maven Matthew Freud, Rupert Murdoch’s son in law through his marriage to production company owner Elizabeth Murdoch, has bought back the 50.1 per cent of his company he sold to Publicis Groupe in 2005 in a deal that valued the whole of Freud Communications at £45m. This is the second time Freud [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged abbott mead vickers, elizabeth murdoch, freud communications, Matthew Freud, Maurice Levy, omnicom, publicis groupe, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP
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