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By Stuart Smith on March 14, 2013
Whatever took them so long? Plod has finally pounced on four miscreant Mirror Group journalists in a dawn raid conducted by the Weeting (phone hacking) team. And what a haul it has proved to be. The four include the first serving editor to be arrested: James Scott of the Sunday People. Better known is one [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, James Scott, mirror group, operation weeting, phone hacking, sunday mirror, Tina Weaver, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on September 26, 2012
The British justice system grinds exceedingly slow and the date set for the Old Bailey trial of Rebekah Brooks (pictured with husband Charlie, also a defendant), Andy Coulson and sundry other News International employees on charges of phone hacking (and other alleged misdemeanours) is September 2013, a whole year from now. The police have already [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, News International, old bailey trial, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, the Murdochs
By Stephen Foster on September 5, 2012
It’s been a long time since adland had a representative in the UK cabinet (although the ubiquitous Lord Mandelson was a non-exec director and minor shareholder in Clenmow Hornby Inge in its early days) but former Grey Advertising exec Maria Miller (left) is the new secretary for culture, media and sport, the department that mostly [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics | Tagged culture media and sport, Francis Maude, grey, Jeremy Hunt, leveson inquiry, Maria Miller, media ethics, minister, phone hacking
By Stephen Foster on August 9, 2012
News Corporation has announced that the costs of the phone hacking and other scandals at its UK newspapers have risen to $224m as it announces lower operating profits and a $2.8bn write-down its global newspaper business that plunged the company into a $1.55bn quarterly loss. Which makes you rather wonder why the company bothers with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance | Tagged Andy Coulson, loss, news corporation, newspapers, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, writedown
By Stephen Foster on June 17, 2012
The UK’s Leveson Inquiry into media ethics, set up by PM David Cameron to take the heat off politicians for their cosy relationships with law-breaking newspaper groups, has well and truly backfired. For Cameron and co obviously, because their cringe-making relationships with the media have been under the spotlight. But for his Lordship too, as [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Charlie Brooks, David Cameron, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt, leveson inquiry, media ethics, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on May 15, 2012
Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks has, as expected, been charged by the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service with three charges of conspiracy to pervert the course for allegedly removing and concealing information pertaining to the Metropolitan Police’s investigations into phone hacking and illegal payments to police officers. Rather unexpectedly Brooks and her husband Charlie have [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bail, charges, Charlie Brooks, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, leveson inquiry, news corporation, News International, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Robert Jay QC, unprecedented posturing, weak and unjust decision
By Stephen Foster on May 2, 2012
Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly from their point of view, legislators on either side of the Atlantic and, possibly, Australia [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fit person, fox, James Murdoch, leveson inquiry, news corporation, news of the world, ofcom, one-eyed monster, over-mighty legislators, parliamentary committee, phone hacking, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, Sky Italia, star tv, the sun, the times
By Stephen Foster on April 26, 2012
The News of the World may have Rupert Murdoch’s first UK newspaper but he doesn’t seem to have liked it very much. Asked at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics today about the paper, which he closed last year after the revelation that the paper’s staff had hacked into murder victim Milly Dowler’s phone (although [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Clive Goodman, closure, leveson inquiry, Milly Dowler, news interntional, news of the world, panic, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch
By Angie Dean on April 5, 2012
News International has made its choice from the WPP agencies involved in the closed pitch for its business and the winners are: Grey, M/SIX (formerly CHI Media), Ogilvy One (direct) and Ogilvy Change (‘behavioural science’ apparently). WPP losers are creative agency CHI, which handled The Times, and media agency Mindshare which had The Times and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged CHI, grey, Katie Vanneck-Smith, m/six, mindshare, news international ad account, news of the world, ogilvy change, ogilvy one, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rory Sutherland, Rupert Murdoch, sun on sunday, team news, the sun
By Stephen Foster on March 29, 2012
Remember ITV Digital, OnDigital in its first incarnation? It was the pay-TV business set up by Carlton and Granada (who subsequently came together as ITV) which briefly challenged Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB in the UK pay TV business. ITV Digital eventually subsided in 2002 leaving ITV £1bn or so out of pocket, the most spectacular of [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged 2002 closure, australian financial review, BBC, Chase Carey, cisco, damages, hackers, itv digital, nds, news corporation, news of the world, ondigital, panorama, pbs frontline, permira, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, surrey police, £1bn losses
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