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By Stephen Foster on November 12, 2012
I only ask because there’s post from BBC business editor Robert Peston on his BBC Online blog today commencing: Helen Boaden and Steve Mitchell have been asked to surrender all their responsibilities as head and deputy head of BBC News, pending the results of the Pollard inquiry, I have learned. “I have learned,” indeed. This [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged BBC, George Entwistle, John Humphrys, Robert Peston, Tim Davie
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 March 19, 2012
Mark Thompson (pictured) has been director-general of the BBC since 2004 when he came back to the corporation from a short stint at Channel 4 as the Beeb reeled from the enforced departure of Greg Dyke. Dyke, a former boss of London Weekend Television, has been forced out after the BBC governors, in effect the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Andrew Gilligan, BBC, bbc1, Caroline Thompson, Channel 4, director-general, dodgy dossier, Dr David Kelly, George Entwistle, Greg Dyke, Helen Boaden, iraq war, Jonathan Ross, Mark Thompson, media city, Peter Fincham, Robert Peston, Russell Brand, sachsgate, salford, sexed up, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on October 25, 2011
About 80 per cent of non-aligned or independent shareholders do anyway according to this analysis by the BBC’s Robert Peston of votes cast at last Friday’s AGM of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Nearly as many want elder brother Lachlan to leg it off the board too (although he’s had nothing to do with the News [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged agm, BBC, bskyb, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, news corporation, News International, phone hacking scandal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, saudi investor, shareholder votes, the news of the world, the sun, the sunday times, the times, uk newspapers
By Stephen Foster on July 13, 2011
Rupert Murdoch has pulled News Corporation’s bid to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it doesn’t own saying the ‘current climate’ makes it impossible. This happened shortly before the House of Commons was due to debate a motion opposing the bid, in reality an excuse for various MPs to line up and monster the [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, bskyb bid, competition commission, debate, itv, James Murdoch, news of the world, ofcom, phone hacking scandal, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the sun, the times, uk parliament, virgin media
By Stephen Foster on April 8, 2011
The News of the World and its ultimate owner Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation have finally admitted that phone hacking at the paper went much further than the activities of royal correspondent Clive Goodman and his private eye sidekick Glenn Mulcaire who were both jailed for the offence in 2007. It says it ‘genuinely regrets‘ what [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Clive Goodman, Glenn Mulcaire, news corporation, News International, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, Will Lewis
By Stephen Foster on March 4, 2011
Some say it can (The BBC’s Robert Peston who points out that the putative deal with BSkyB is likely to mean a 14-year news provider’s licence in practice), others, like former Sky News boss Andrew Neil, speaking on the BBC, are more doubtful. Sky News is going to be hived off as a separate UK [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andrew Neil, BBC, bskyb, Jeremy Hunt, news corporation, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, sky news
By Stephen Foster on January 17, 2011
Robert Peston is the BBC’s business editor and the former banking editor of the Financial Times. As such he knows more about the travails of the world’s financial system (aka banks) than just about anyone else. This is his presentation to BBC staff about the economic outlook. As we’ve said many times before, economic forecasting [...]
Posted in Finance, News | Tagged banking, financial times, ipa bellwether report, Robert Peston, world economy.bbc
By Staff on January 13, 2011
As we all thought it would, but what will in-the-doghouse Vince Cable’s replacement on the media front, culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, decide to do? Insiders say he’d like to wave it through, Rupert Murdoch opponents say this would be outrageous. Lawyers (at least those not already engaged in the case) say that Hunt would be [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, competition commission, Jeremy Hunt, news corporation, ofcom, Robert Peston, sky takeover, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on June 17, 2010
He hasn’t got the prestigious post being vacated by Mark Damazer yet of course but the great Pesto would hardly apply for the job of controller of Radio 4 if he didn’t think he stood a good chance. The trouble is we’ve all grown to depend on his hotlines to the City and the Treasury [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bbc business editor, Mark Lawson, radio 4, Robert Peston, Will Lewis
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