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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
By Stephen Foster on February 20, 2012
The ‘will it happen, won’t it happen’ debate over Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun on Sunday has been abruptly ended by the great man – it’s going to arrive this Sunday February 26th and he’s going to be in charge. Rupert has always enjoyed inky fingers (in moderation), spending time as a very young man as [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged daily express, Dominic Mohan, february 26 launch date, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, police, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Sun, team news, the sun on sunday, wpp pitch
By Stephen Foster on February 17, 2012
Well I only ask because: Rupert Murdoch’s statement today that he backs the Sun, wants to be bring back all the suspended (and arrested) journalists and still wants to launch The Sun on Sunday (‘in the near future”) flies in the face of all known reason. As my colleague Stuart Smith has pointed out, the [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Chase Carey, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, journalist arrests, lawyers, news corporation, News International, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, richard desmond, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Stuart Smith, the sun, the sun on sunday, Tom Mockridge, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 15, 2012
One of the many bizarre aspects of the crisis in News Corporation’s UK newspaper business News international is the way the giant company, one of the world’s biggest and hitherto most successful media organisations, has got every big decision wrong as the scandal which started with phone hacking at the News of the World has [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged civil war, dawn raids, management and standards committee, met police, msc, news corporation, News International, news of the world, phone hacking, Richard Littlejohn, Roman Abramovitch, Rupert Murdoch, Simon Greenberg, the sun, Trevor Kavanagh, Will Lewis
By Stuart Smith on February 13, 2012
A News International spokesman tells us Sun editor Dominic Mohan is “not resigning” in the wake of five more high-profile arrests of his senior colleagues. Well, thank goodness for that. Someone has to be there to switch off the lights, and there now seem precious few editorial staff of any standing who aren’t on bail, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged arrests, bskyb, Dominic Mohan, James Murdoch, ministry of defence, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, Sue Akers, Sun, sun on sunday, UK police
By Stephen Foster on February 9, 2012
This is becoming a bit of a trend, News International has awarded its £28m ad account (does it really spend that much on external media?) to holding company WPP. WPP is to set up ‘Team News’ to handle News international’s three remaining papers in the UK, the Sun,The Times and the Sunday Times (the News [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged CHI, closed pitch, grey, Johnny Hornby, news corporation, News International, news of the world, phone hacking, rkcr/y&r, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, team news, the sun, the sunday times, the times, Vodafone, WPP, £28m ad account
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 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
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
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