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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 November 30, 2012
*The Leveson Inquiry into UK media ethics (or the lack of them) duly reported and proposed a very sensible system of, essentially, self regulation for the UK’s rumbustious national press, with a legal framework preventing the bastards from just ignoring the rules and doing what they always have done. All perfectly sensible – so off [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, cannes, David Cameroon, draftfcb, finland, leveson inquiry, mondelez, norway, oreo, Rebekah Brooks, rolling stones, vikings, wieden+kennedy
By Stuart Smith on November 30, 2012
LOL – now he knows what it means – must have been David Cameron’s reaction after reading Lord Leveson’s report on the culture, practice and ethics of the UK press. First came an audible sigh of relief over the vindication of his own reputation, which– despite inappropriate platonic text dalliance with La (Rebekah) Brooks, now [...]
Posted in Analysis, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, David Cameron, Lord Leveson, media ethics, Murdochs, ofcom, proposals, Rebekah Brooks, Viscount Rothermere
By Stephen Foster on November 21, 2012
I’ve no idea how much has been spent on what we used to call corporate public relations over the last decade but it must run into many billions of whatever currency you choose. Since PR firms had the bright wheeze of calling their offer ‘reputation management’ (and you wouldn’t want to be without that would [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, autonomy, edelman, hewlett-packard, news corporation, omnicom, PR, Rebekah Brooks, reputation management, spinners, WPP
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 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 Staff on July 24, 2012
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head… Well, Rebekah Brooks’ and Andy Coulson’s heads at any rate. Along with those of 6 other hacks from The News of the World (ob. 2011) and The Sun. It’s career death for them, whatever the outcome of a trial. And, frankly, things look pretty grim for [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Prudence MacLeod, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, The Daily Express, the mirror, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on June 27, 2012
Which looks like a pretty cunning plan. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is planning to hive off its troubled UK newspaper business into a separate company (along with its other papers like the Wall Street Journal), leaving its ‘entertainment’ assets – Fox, Star in Asia and, presumably, its various Sky TV businesses in a bigger, supposedly [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, company split, fox, news corporation, ofcom, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch
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
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