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By Stephen Foster on September 17, 2012
The battle of Kate’s boobs is likely to have more effect on the future conduct of the media in the UK (and possibly elsewhere) than whatever Lord Justice Leveson concludes in his protracted inquiry into media ethics. St James’s Palace, home to Prince Charles, has said it is going to sue Mondadori-owned French magazine Closer [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged CHI, closer, duchess of cambridge, Kate Middleton, leveson inquiry, mondadori, paparazzi pictures, Prince Charles, Prince William, richard desmond, St James Palace
By Stephen Foster on August 17, 2012
A couple of days ago we reported on the plan by former adman Rupert Howell and journalist Sue Douglas to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Star Sunday, a move that seemed odd in the extreme as newspapers are hardly booming in the UK (or likely to). But, under Desmond’s ruthless cost management, the DSS does actually [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged channel 5, credit suisse, daily star sunday, derivatives investment, richard desmond, Rupert Howell, sue Douglas
By Stephen Foster on August 15, 2012
Sue Douglas, who used to be a big noise at the Sunday Times and then at Conde Nast, and Rupert Howell (left), one of the H’s in HHCL and then the boss of McCann Europe and the chief salesman at ITV, are supposed to be talking to Northern & Shell owner Richard Desmond about buying [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged channel 5, daily star sunday, richard desmond, Rupert Howell, Rupert Murdoch, sue Douglas
By Stephen Foster on March 20, 2012
This is an interesting ad for the UK’s National Lottery: instead of focussing on the joys of winning it shows one of the 370,000 ‘good causes’ the Lottery supports. And the ad from AMV/BBDO could hardly be more downbeat, although most people will find it uplifting too. The charity Heroes Return pays for World War [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Adrian Rossi, Alex Grieve, amv/bbdo, channel 5, charities, good causes, health lottery, help for heroes, heroes return, John Hillcoat, national lottery, richard desmond, servicemen, stink
By Staff on March 7, 2012
Forget Max Clifford, The Outside Organisation’s Alan Edwards is the doyen of the populist PR world. Edwards began his career in the music business (like Clifford), acting for the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and David Bowie before broadening Outside’s reach to celebrities like Naomi Campbell (he acted for her in the ‘Blood Diamonds’ affair) [...]
Posted in Media, News, PR | Tagged alan Edwards, David Bowie, Katie Price, Max Clifford, Naomi Campbell, Neil Wallis, news agenda, News International, news of the world, outside organisation, phone hacking, PR, pr doyen, richard desmond, Sir Paul McCartney, sony music, the sun
By Stephen Foster on February 29, 2012
This is a job and a half and no mistake. Mimi Turner (pictured), European television editor of the Hollywood Reporter, is joining Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell as its first group communications director. Desmond owns UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 of course so Turner’s experience looks a good fit. But the rumbustious tycoon is also [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, PR | Tagged channel 5, Feona McEwan, hollywood reporter, leveson inquiry, martin-sorrell, Mimi Turner, northern & shell, police horse, Rebekah Brooks, richard desmond
By Stephen Foster on February 17, 2012
Well I only ask because: Rupert Murdoch’s statement today that he backs the Sun, wants to be bring back all the suspended (and arrested) journalists and still wants to launch The Sun on Sunday (‘in the near future”) flies in the face of all known reason. As my colleague Stuart Smith has pointed out, the [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Chase Carey, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, journalist arrests, lawyers, news corporation, News International, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, richard desmond, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Stuart Smith, the sun, the sun on sunday, Tom Mockridge, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 17, 2012
News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch is due to appear in the Sun’s London newsroom today to reassure them that he won’t sell them down the river (the Thames flows nearby) in the wake of a number of arrests of senior Sun journalists suspected of paying police officers and other official types. The trouble is, he [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andrew Neil, daily express, John Major, Kelvin MacKenzie, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, richard desmond, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the news of the world, the star, the sun, the times
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 October 3, 2011
New Channel 4 sales boss Jonathan Allan (pictured), who joined a month ago from Omnicom’s OMD where he was managing director, has wasted no time ringing the changes at the UK broadcaster. Head of airtime sales Mick Perry, who joined from Universal McCann just 18 months ago, is on his bike and Gary Digby, the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, Big Brother, Channel 4, channel 5, David Abraham, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, Jonathan Allan, media agency negotiations, Mick Perry, omd, richard desmond, sales director, tv ratings
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