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Is Murdoch's soaraway Sun about to crash to earth?

Is Murdoch’s soaraway Sun about to crash to earth?

By Stephen Foster on February 3, 2012

One minute crisis-torn News International, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company, was readying a new paper, the Sun on Sunday, for an April launch. Then four senior Sun journalists, past and present, were arrested and all of a sudden there are doubts about the future of the daily Sun, let alone a Sunday version. Current Sun [...]

Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, Dominic Mohan, fox, harper collins, James Harding, leveson inquiry, news corporation, news internatiopnal, news of the world, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, the sun, twitter | Leave a response

Express owner Richard Desmond skewered by Leveson Inquiry over treatment of McCann family

Express owner Richard Desmond skewered by Leveson Inquiry over treatment of McCann family

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 | Leave a response

Former News of the World editor Myler steps up Murdoch feud with move to rival New York Post

Former News of the World editor Myler steps up Murdoch feud with move to rival New York Post

By Stephen Foster on January 5, 2012

It must have been a big decision for former News of the World editor Colin Myler (he was in charge when Rupert Murdoch closed the paper at the height of the phone hacking scandal) when he chose, along with former legal manager Tom Krone, to challenge James Murdoch’s recollection of the notorious ‘for Neville’ phone [...]

Posted in Media, News | Tagged bskyb, Colin Myler, James Murdoch, Mort Zuckerman, new york daily news, new york post, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch

Could boss Sly Bailey be on her way out at ever-declining Trinity Mirror?

Could boss Sly Bailey be on her way out at ever-declining Trinity Mirror?

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

Did he or didn't he? James Murdoch's future depends on whether he read 'for Neville' email

Did he or didn’t he? James Murdoch’s future depends on whether he read ‘for Neville’ email

By Staff on December 14, 2011

The notorious ‘for Neville’ email circulating at the News of the World in 2008 holds the key to the future of James Murdoch at News Corporation and, very likely, at UK pay-TV operator BSKyB which is 39 per cent owned by News Corp. The email, sent to the News of the World’s chief reporter Neville [...]

Posted in Media, News | Tagged Andy Coulson, bksyb, Clive Goodman, for Neville email, James Murdoch, Milly Dowler, Neville Thurlbeck, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks

Now Bell Pottinger is dragged into the phone-hacking scandal as it tells News International boss Rebekah Brooks where to be arrested

Now Bell Pottinger is dragged into the phone-hacking scandal as it tells News International boss Rebekah Brooks where to be arrested

By Staff on December 7, 2011

Well this is all a bit peculiar and no mistake. The Daily Telegraph alleges that Lord Bell’s PR and lobbying company Bell Pottinger advised its client Rebekah Brooks (pictured), former editor of the News of the World, Sun and then CEO of News International, about which particular police station she should turn up to be [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, News, Politics, PR | Tagged arrests, Bell Pottinger, business secretary, chime communications, Daily Telegraph, David Wilson, independent sting, Lord Bell, News International, news of the world, political lobbying, Rebekah Brooks, Tim Bell, Tim Collins, Vince Cable

Former News of the World man Paul McMullan drags Piers Morgan into the phone-hacking scandal

Former News of the World man Paul McMullan drags Piers Morgan into the phone-hacking scandal

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

Gary Speed's death will focus more unwelcome attention on tabloid newspapers

Gary Speed’s death will focus more unwelcome attention on tabloid newspapers

By Stephen Foster on November 27, 2011

The shocking suicide by hanging of 42-year old Welsh national team football manager Gary Speed on Saturday evening is bound to focus attention on the activities of the UK’s tabloid newspapers. Nobody knows why Speed, a popular figure in the game who was doing extremely well as manager of Wales, chose to end his life. [...]

Posted in Media, News | Tagged Gary Speed, Glenn Hoddle, leveson inquiry, News International, news of the world, suicide, Sven-goran Eriksson, tbloid investigations, the sun, the times, twitter account, Wales football manager

Associated and PR firm Brown Lloyd James in the dock in UK press standards inquiry

Associated and PR firm Brown Lloyd James in the dock in UK press standards inquiry

By Stephen Foster on November 23, 2011

Few newspaper companies have sharper teeth than Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, which routinely terrorises its enemies including rival media organisations the BBC and Channel 4. But the company appears to have seriously overstepped the mark in its pugnacious response to testimony before the Leveson inquiry into press standards [...]

Posted in Media, News, PR | Tagged associated newspapers, brown lloyd james, Colonel Gaddafi, daily mail, David Sherborne, Hugh Grant, leveson inquiry, Lord Justice Leveson, mail on sunday, news of the world, Paul Dacre, phone hacking, press standards

If James Murdoch can talk his way out of this one he deserves to succeed his dad at News Corporation

If James Murdoch can talk his way out of this one he deserves to succeed his dad at News Corporation

By Stephen Foster on November 10, 2011

News Corporation deputy COO James Murdoch faces a British Parliamentary Committee this afternoon who will quiz him on his knowledge of phone hacking and various other forms of surveillance carried on routinely at the now-defunct News of the World, of which he was the ultimate boss as executive chairman of News international. The story has [...]

Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Derek Webb, James Murdoch, news corporation, News International, news of the world, parliamentary committee, phone hacking scandal, phone hacking scandal lawyers, undercover surveillance

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