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By Stephen Foster on December 26, 2012
At this time of year – in the UK at least – we hear a lot about the impending doom for a number of high street retailers (so far unspecified) who are struggling to pay their next quarterly rent bill even though their tills are stuffed with cash from Christmas and the sales. Therefore it’s [...]
Posted in Analysis, Finance, Media, News | Tagged news corporation, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, Simon Fox, the guardian, the times, trinity mirror, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on December 3, 2012
Fairly fresh from losing over $500m on MySpace, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has now closed The Daily, his much-trumpeted iPad newspaper. Rupert says: “From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fox, ipad newspaper, may space, news corporation, news of the world, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, the daily, Tom Mockridge
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 May 2, 2012
Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly from their point of view, legislators on either side of the Atlantic and, possibly, Australia [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fit person, fox, James Murdoch, leveson inquiry, news corporation, news of the world, ofcom, one-eyed monster, over-mighty legislators, parliamentary committee, phone hacking, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, Sky Italia, star tv, the sun, the times
By Stephen Foster on April 26, 2012
The News of the World may have Rupert Murdoch’s first UK newspaper but he doesn’t seem to have liked it very much. Asked at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics today about the paper, which he closed last year after the revelation that the paper’s staff had hacked into murder victim Milly Dowler’s phone (although [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Clive Goodman, closure, leveson inquiry, Milly Dowler, news interntional, news of the world, panic, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch
By Angie Dean on April 5, 2012
News International has made its choice from the WPP agencies involved in the closed pitch for its business and the winners are: Grey, M/SIX (formerly CHI Media), Ogilvy One (direct) and Ogilvy Change (‘behavioural science’ apparently). WPP losers are creative agency CHI, which handled The Times, and media agency Mindshare which had The Times and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged CHI, grey, Katie Vanneck-Smith, m/six, mindshare, news international ad account, news of the world, ogilvy change, ogilvy one, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rory Sutherland, Rupert Murdoch, sun on sunday, team news, the sun
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 29, 2012
Remember ITV Digital, OnDigital in its first incarnation? It was the pay-TV business set up by Carlton and Granada (who subsequently came together as ITV) which briefly challenged Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB in the UK pay TV business. ITV Digital eventually subsided in 2002 leaving ITV £1bn or so out of pocket, the most spectacular of [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged 2002 closure, australian financial review, BBC, Chase Carey, cisco, damages, hackers, itv digital, nds, news corporation, news of the world, ondigital, panorama, pbs frontline, permira, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, surrey police, £1bn losses
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 13, 2012
Rupert Murdoch’s new Sunday version of the Sun is selling about 2.7m copies after three weeks, down from week one’s 3.2m but slightly up on week two. Selling at 50p against Trinity’s Mirror’s £1 Sunday Mirror and People obviously helps of course (both the latter have stabilised after dropping 30 per cent or so with [...]
Posted in News | Tagged bartle bogle hegarty, campaign, Chris Blackhurst, Daily Telegraph, guardian, i, Independent, news of the world, people, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Michael Parkinson, Stefano Hatfield, Sun, sun on sunday, sundaymirror, the times, thelondonpaper, three little pigs, uk newspaper sales, X-Factor, Youtube
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