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Hollywood Reporter's Mimi Turner takes the hottest of hot seats at Northern & Shell

Hollywood Reporter’s Mimi Turner takes the hottest of hot seats at Northern & Shell

By Stephen Foster on February 29, 2012

This is a job and a half and no mistake. Mimi Turner (pictured), European television editor of the Hollywood Reporter, is joining Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell as its first group communications director. Desmond owns UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 of course so Turner’s experience looks a good fit. But the rumbustious tycoon is also [...]

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It's a funny old world as Guardian Media's Dan Sabbagh lauds Richard Desmond for £30m profit

It’s a funny old world as Guardian Media’s Dan Sabbagh lauds Richard Desmond for £30m profit

By Stephen Foster on June 13, 2011

Not so long ago Richard Desmond, owner of Express Newspapers, OK magazine, numerous digital porn channels and, recently, Channel 5 was boasting that he had so much money that he wanted to buy the Sun from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation for £1bn. Now, it transpires, Desmond’s Northern and Shell empire has tripled its profits – [...]

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Desmond print sale would mean curtains for the Daily Express but where would the rest go?

Desmond print sale would mean curtains for the Daily Express but where would the rest go?

By Stephen Foster on April 4, 2011

When Richard Desmond bought Express Newspapers a decade or so ago he caused outrage in Fleet Street with his rough ways. These supposedly included meeting delegates from the Telegraph with a goose-stepping routine and his butler interrupting meetings to bring him a banana on a silver platter. But Dessie looks like he’s going to have [...]

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