By Stephen Foster on May 30, 2012
A month ago we asked if anyone still needed Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror, the (Sunday) People and a gaggle of regional titles. This was in the wake of Sly Bailey’s removal as CEO when shareholders jibbed at paying her £1.7m a year to run a company whose value had declined [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, daily record, David Grigson, firings, Lloyd Embley, Mark Hollinshead, people, Richard Littlejohn, Richard Wallace, seven day publishiing, Sly Bailey, sunday mirror, Tina Weaver, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on May 4, 2012
Sly Bailey, Sylvia as was, has quit her job as CEO of Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People plus a collection of local papers in an argument with shareholders over her £1.7m pay package. Bailey, a former IPC Magazines boss before she took over at the Mirror in 2003, faced [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated, cost-cutting, daily mail, daily mirror, digital onslaught, ipc magazines, local papers, news corporation, News International, people, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Bailey, Sun, sunday mirror, Telegraph, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on April 30, 2012
But they don’t do they? Or at least not posh ads from posh agencies. They do in the US, as you can see from a quick run-through of Super Bowl ads and the current spate of ‘real life’ mini-documentaries for the likes of Chrysler. But we’re not just talking about real people, actors will do [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Alexander Armstrong, amv/bbdo, animation, awards, celebs, Chris Addison, chrysler, David Tennant, del campo nazca, direct line, edf energy, m&c saatchi, mini-documentaries, people, ribena, Sir Richard Branson, super bowl
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 [...]
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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
By Stephen Foster on October 6, 2011
In leaked evidence submitted to an employment tribunal in 2007 former People journalist David Brown has alleged the the paper’s reporters hacked into the phones of various celebrities including TV presenters Ulrika Jonsson (pictured) and Noel Edmonds. In a witness statement Brown said: “A number of the methods used to pry into individuals’ lives were [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, David Brown, doorstepping, employment tribunal, illegal methods, News International, news of the world, Noel Edmonds, people, phone hacking, Piers Morgan, privacy, trinity mirror, Ulrika Jonsson
By Stephen Foster on September 12, 2011
This weekend’s Mail on Sunday trumpeted its status as the UK’s top selling Sunday newspaper with just over 2m sales but that must be a crushing disappointment to Associated Newspaper executives who saw MoS sales briefly hit 2.4m in the immediate aftermath of the closure of News international’s News of the World. The NoW was [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated newspapers, coalition government, daily mirror, Ed Miliband, Gordon Brown, labour government, Labour Party, News International, news of the world, people, Petronella Wyatt, readers, richard desmond, star on sunday, Sun, sunday espress, sunday mirror, Willian Rees-Mogg
By Stephen Foster on August 12, 2011
Rupert Murdoch isn’t a very happy bunny at the moment although he can console himself with the thought that things could be much worse (they still might be). But what the News Corporation boss probably hates the most is that his decision to close the News of the World in the wake of the phone [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, ipc, mail on sunday, news corporation, news of the world, people, phone hacking scandal, profits, richard desmond, Robert Maxwell, Rupert Murdoch, sales, Sly Bailey, star on sunday, Sun, sunday express, sunday mirror, Sunday Times, trinity mirror
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