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By Stuart Smith on May 31, 2012
The Rabelaisian guffawing in The Mirror’s newsroom when Trinity Mirror’s chief executive announced her unlamented departure is now reduced to a sullen whisper. Who will be next, the hacks timorously wonder as they survey the seismic damage caused by this morning’s fresh round of top level sackings? Out, in short order, have gone Richard Wallace, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, Lloyd Embley, Piers Morgan, Richard Wallace, Rupert Murdoch, sackings, seven day publishing, Sly Bailey, sun on sunday, sunday mirror, the people, Tina Weaver, trinity mirror
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 April 3, 2012
It’s no great surprise that James Murdoch has chosen to resign as chairman of British pay-TV company BSkyB in the wake of the phone-hacking and other scandals at his dad’s News Corporation (39 per cent owner of BSkyB). James has become an embarrassment after his disastrous reign as chairman of News Corp’s News International which [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bskyb, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Liz Murdoch, news corporation, News International, news of the world, resignation, Rupert Murdoch, sun on sunday
By Stephen Foster on March 13, 2012
Rupert Murdoch’s new Sunday version of the Sun is selling about 2.7m copies after three weeks, down from week one’s 3.2m but slightly up on week two. Selling at 50p against Trinity’s Mirror’s £1 Sunday Mirror and People obviously helps of course (both the latter have stabilised after dropping 30 per cent or so with [...]
Posted in News | Tagged bartle bogle hegarty, campaign, Chris Blackhurst, Daily Telegraph, guardian, i, Independent, news of the world, people, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Michael Parkinson, Stefano Hatfield, Sun, sun on sunday, sundaymirror, the times, thelondonpaper, three little pigs, uk newspaper sales, X-Factor, Youtube
By Stuart Smith on February 13, 2012
A News International spokesman tells us Sun editor Dominic Mohan is “not resigning” in the wake of five more high-profile arrests of his senior colleagues. Well, thank goodness for that. Someone has to be there to switch off the lights, and there now seem precious few editorial staff of any standing who aren’t on bail, [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged arrests, bskyb, Dominic Mohan, James Murdoch, ministry of defence, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, Sue Akers, Sun, sun on sunday, UK police
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