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Desmond seals deal to sell Express to Trinity Mirror
Traditional media may have been a vale of tears for most of its proponents over the past 15 years or…
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Mirror closes in on Desmond’s Express titles
Trinity Mirror CEO Simon Fox is a brave man. Now he’s on the brink of buying Richard Desmond’s Northern &…
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Does Mirror plus Express signal a route to national newspaper salvation?
Will anything come from a resumption of talks between Trinity Mirror and Richard Desmond, owner of the Express newspapers and…
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What’s next for Richard Desmond as long-time sidekick Stan Myerson calls it a day?
I see that Stan Myerson, Richard Desmond’s number two and “brother-in-arms” is retiring. The British newspaper industry had never seen…
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Express and Mirror consider extraordinary tie-up
To anyone who can remember the high old days of Fleet Street, when the nation’s hacks proudly strutted their stuff,…
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Sorrell’s pay hits £30m, Dessie sells Channel 5 for £450m, David’s second coming for ‘subservient chicken’
***More from the wonderful world of adland and its parallel universe of ridiculous pay awards: WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell…
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Desmond eyes bumper £700m payday from Channel 5
We haven’t always been UK media entrepreneur Richard Desmond’s biggest fan – he started out at the tacky end of…
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Sorrell shows his cojones to support GroupM against bully critics and takes another potshot at ‘POG’
Here’s my chum Mark Sweney from the Guardian bearding WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell (left) on the alleged bullying activities of…
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Desmond puts the boot into old chum Sorrell over GroupM’s TV buying power
If there’s one thing stranger than Channel 5 and Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond (‘Dirty Dickie’ to his enemies because…
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