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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 September 5, 2012
It’s been a long time since adland had a representative in the UK cabinet (although the ubiquitous Lord Mandelson was a non-exec director and minor shareholder in Clenmow Hornby Inge in its early days) but former Grey Advertising exec Maria Miller (left) is the new secretary for culture, media and sport, the department that mostly [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics | Tagged culture media and sport, Francis Maude, grey, Jeremy Hunt, leveson inquiry, Maria Miller, media ethics, minister, phone hacking
By Stephen Foster on June 17, 2012
The UK’s Leveson Inquiry into media ethics, set up by PM David Cameron to take the heat off politicians for their cosy relationships with law-breaking newspaper groups, has well and truly backfired. For Cameron and co obviously, because their cringe-making relationships with the media have been under the spotlight. But for his Lordship too, as [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Charlie Brooks, David Cameron, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt, leveson inquiry, media ethics, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2012
OK, let’s take it from the top: Facebook’s IPO was a fiasco as there was clearly information available about the company’s struggle to reach ad revenue targets that were made available to some investors (the big boys) and not the millions of others who bought into the massively over-priced IPO. This is just Wall Street [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged adam & eve, amv/bbdo, blatherskite, bskyb, David Cameron, ddb london, facebook, google analytics, google news, ipo, Jeremy Hunt, John Lewis, leveson inquiry, media ethics, moreaboutadvertising, multiples, news corporation, omnicom, Rupert Murdoch, social media, stock price, Vince Cable, wall street, west country farmed rabbit, £60m deal
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 April 24, 2012
Former News International boss James Murdoch was up before the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics today and, while James escaped pretty well unscathed (in part due to his professed reluctance to read evening emails revealing phone hacking on a grand scale at the News of the World) he’s left the coalition government reeling. Culture, media [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, coalition government, David Cameron, James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt, leveson inquiry, media ethics, news corporation, News International, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, thwarted bid, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on January 13, 2012
It’s very rare to see a real live media magnate skewered in public but that’s what happened yesterday to Express Newspapers (and Channel 5) owner Richard Desmond yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics in the UK. Desmond even tells the Inquiry’s probing lead counsel Robert Jay that he doesn’t understand what the word [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged channel 5, daily express, daily mail, daily star, Kate and Gerry McCann, leveson inquiry, Madeleine McCann, media ethics, news of the world, ok magazine, Paul Dacre, phone hacking scandal, richard desmond, Robert Jay QC
By Stephen Foster on December 21, 2011
The Financial Times seems to think so, judging by an apparently well-sourced report that describes shareholder unrest at the UK national and regional newspaper company. UK newspapers, even posh ones that write about business such as the FT, don’t usually speculate aloud about the prospects of key executives in their own industry but the News [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, David Grigson, ipc, James Hewitt, leveson inquiry, media ethics, national newspapers, news corporation, News International, news of the world, people, Piers Morgan, Princess Diana, regional newspapers, reuters, Sly Bailey, sunday mirror, trinity mirror
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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