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By Stephen Foster on December 13, 2012
81-year old Rupert Murdoch is ringing the changes in his newspaper empire as he prepares to spin it off as a separate company next spring. News International boss in the UK Tom Mockridge has already gone after losing out to Wall Street Journal boss Robert Thomson to be head of the new entity and now [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Craig Oliver, culture secretary, James Harding, Maria Miller, newspaper company, Paul Dacre, Rebekah Brooks, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the times, Tony Gallagher
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 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
By Stephen Foster on October 4, 2011
Embarrassing or what? For half an hour yesterday Mail Online, the Daily Mail’s website, published the wrong verdict in the Amanda Knox (pictured) murder case, namely that she had lost her appeal. The article also purported to describe the glee of delighted prosecutors, who weren’t delighted at all of course as the appeal trial revealed [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Amanda Knox appeal, editor in chief, italian court, kensington high street, mail online, Martin Clarke, Paul Dacre, prosecutors, wrong verdict
By Stephen Foster on July 25, 2011
Part of the Murdochs’ ‘defence’ to the UK Parliament’s culture, media and sport committee last week in the midst of the phone hacking scandal was that they were too busy to spend much time on a business – News International newspapers – that only produced one per cent of News Corporation’s vast profits. This, of [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated newspapers, bskyb, daily mail, fox, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, mail on sunday, News International, parliamentary committee, Paul Dacre, phone hacking, political influence, royal family, Rupert Murdoch, sky, the guardian, the news of the world, the sun, the sunday times, the times, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on July 19, 2011
It was girls on top (yet again) at the Parliamentary quizzing of Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks today over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. James did OK under some tough questioning from Labour MP Tom Watson, but did demonstrate the inexperienced executive’s characteristic fault of filling a gap in the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged daily mail, David Cameron, James Murdoch, Louise Mensch, mail on sunday, news corporation, news of the world, parliamentary committee, Paul Dacre, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Watson
By Stephen Foster on July 11, 2011
Amid all the Murdoch stuff in the UK newspapers at the weekend was a fascinating piece in the Mail on Sunday claiming that current News International boss Rebekah Brooks used to run fictional press releases from her PR buddies as front page stories in the Sun and the News of the World. The article, written [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Charlie Brooks, David Cameron, elizabeth murdoch, fake pr stories, freud communications, Jeremy Clarkson, mail on sunday, Matthew Freud, news of the world, news of the world insider, oxfordshire, Paul Dacre, phone hacking scandal, prca, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Sun
By Stephen Foster on July 8, 2011
Rupert Murdoch took the decision to close the News on the World on Tuesday it seems as that was the day his News International registered the name ‘The Sun on Sunday,’ the working title (and likely real title) for the NI paper that is slated to take the place of the NoW. Taken as a [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated newspapers, bskyb takeover bid, daily mail, facebook, James Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg, new sunday paper, news of the world, Paul Dacre, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, the mail on sunday, the sun, the sun on sunday, the times, WPP
By Stephen Foster on July 2, 2011
Time was when there was a middle market in UK newspapers, the Daily Mail and Daily Express fighting over the millions of aspiring middle class readers who wouldn’t be seen dead buying the Sun or the Mirror, and didn’t have the time for the Daily Telegraph or The Times. But that time’s gone and there’s [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged associated newspapers, daily express, daily mail, hillsborough, Jonathan Rothermere, Kelvin MacKenzie, Kenny Dalglish, liverpool fans, mail online, middle market, New York Times, News International, Paul Dacre, Richard Littlejohn, Rupert Murdoch, the sun, the times
By Stephen Foster on June 3, 2011
You couldn’t imagine Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail or John Witherow of the Sunday Times appearing in their own ads (has there ever been a picture of Witherow?) but Simon Kelner (pictured), who edits both the Independent and its new cut-down i version, has never been the retiring type. Not content with editing two [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged big al's creative emporium, celeb gossip ad, daily mail, editor, Edward Scissorhands, gq, i, Independent, John Witherow, mccann ercikson, Paul Dacre, restaurant critic, Simon Kelner, Sunday Times, viral
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