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By Stephen Foster on January 24, 2013
Football saved Rupert Murdoch’s (part-owned) BSkyB from an early grave and now the ever-active media mogul (in his ninth decade) is hoping it can extend the life-support system for his British newspapers. His News Corporation company News International has secured the rights to show Premier League ‘near-live’ clips (as they call them) from all its [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged barcelona, bskyb, manchester united, Mike Darcey, mobile rights, near-live clips, news corporation, News International, Premier League, real madrid, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on September 26, 2012
The British justice system grinds exceedingly slow and the date set for the Old Bailey trial of Rebekah Brooks (pictured with husband Charlie, also a defendant), Andy Coulson and sundry other News International employees on charges of phone hacking (and other alleged misdemeanours) is September 2013, a whole year from now. The police have already [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, News International, old bailey trial, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, the Murdochs
By Stephen Foster on May 15, 2012
Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks has, as expected, been charged by the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service with three charges of conspiracy to pervert the course for allegedly removing and concealing information pertaining to the Metropolitan Police’s investigations into phone hacking and illegal payments to police officers. Rather unexpectedly Brooks and her husband Charlie have [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bail, charges, Charlie Brooks, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, leveson inquiry, news corporation, News International, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Robert Jay QC, unprecedented posturing, weak and unjust decision
By Stephen Foster on May 4, 2012
Sly Bailey, Sylvia as was, has quit her job as CEO of Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People plus a collection of local papers in an argument with shareholders over her £1.7m pay package. Bailey, a former IPC Magazines boss before she took over at the Mirror in 2003, faced [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated, cost-cutting, daily mail, daily mirror, digital onslaught, ipc magazines, local papers, news corporation, News International, people, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Bailey, Sun, sunday mirror, Telegraph, trinity mirror
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 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 [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bskyb, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Liz Murdoch, news corporation, News International, news of the world, resignation, Rupert Murdoch, sun on sunday
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 March 9, 2012
It all seems a long time ago now but, pre-dating the phone hacking scandal’s full glory, the big media story in the UK was News Corporation’s bid to buy the 61 per cent of UK pay-TV operator BSkyB it didn’t already own. News Corp was prepared to pay £8bn for the remainder of highly-profitable and [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, Chase Carey, James Murdoch, Jeremy Darroch, news corporation, News International, news of the world, ofcom, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, takeover
By Staff on March 7, 2012
Forget Max Clifford, The Outside Organisation’s Alan Edwards is the doyen of the populist PR world. Edwards began his career in the music business (like Clifford), acting for the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and David Bowie before broadening Outside’s reach to celebrities like Naomi Campbell (he acted for her in the ‘Blood Diamonds’ affair) [...]
Posted in Media, News, PR | Tagged alan Edwards, David Bowie, Katie Price, Max Clifford, Naomi Campbell, Neil Wallis, news agenda, News International, news of the world, outside organisation, phone hacking, PR, pr doyen, richard desmond, Sir Paul McCartney, sony music, the sun
By Stephen Foster on February 28, 2012
At some point in 2006 Sun editor CEO Rebekah Brooks (pictured) met a senior Scotland Yard officer who told her that the Metropolitan Police suspected that there were 100 or more cases of phone hacking at News International but that they were going to confine their investigation to News of the World royal correspondent Clive [...]
Posted in Finance, Media | Tagged bribes, charlotte church, cover-up, culture of illegality, deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, leveson inquiry, News International, news of the world, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, scotland yard, sunday edition, the sun
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