By Stephen Foster on October 19, 2011
The scene was Brighton, England and embattled UK prime minister Gordon Brown had just tried (and mostly failed) to rally his battered troops. Leading Labour politicos at the party conference were no doubt looking forward to a few sustaining snifters at the News International party, News International being the News Corporation-owned company that published the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged blue smoke, bskyb, Charlie Brooks, Clive Goodman, David Cameron, Glenn Mulcaire, Gordon Brown, Gordon Taylor, hubris, James Murdoch, Kelvin MacKenzie, labour party conference, Lachlan Murdoch, Max Clifford, New York Times, news corporation, News International, news of the world, Peter Mandelson, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Brown, september 29 2009, shareholders meeting, Sun, Sunday Times, the times, Tom Watson, Wendi Deng
By Stephen Foster on October 11, 2011
US shareholders in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation are trying to gang up on Rupert Murdoch, his family and assorted cronies in an assault that, if even partly successful, will surely bring forward the day when the company’s newspapers, source of its current grief, are sold. The ISS investor advisory group has joined the clamour against [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Chase Carey, iss, James Murdoch, Joel Klein, Lachlan Murdoch, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch, shareholder revolt, Sir Rod Eddington, Sun, Sunday Times, Times
By Stephen Foster on September 27, 2011
Of the many humiliations awaiting ambitious young shavers trying to succeed in UK television one of the most notable was being selected as the ‘news bunny,’ former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie’s way of spicing up the news bulletins on his ghastly TV station Live TV, owned by Sun rival Mirror Group. The bunny was a [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Chris Evans, crossroads, Darren Lamb, dove, head of digital content, Kelvin McKenzie, L'Oreal, live tv, men expert, Mercedes, Mirror, news bunny, richard & Judy, Russell Bates, Sainsburys, Sun, vccp
By Stephen Foster on September 12, 2011
This weekend’s Mail on Sunday trumpeted its status as the UK’s top selling Sunday newspaper with just over 2m sales but that must be a crushing disappointment to Associated Newspaper executives who saw MoS sales briefly hit 2.4m in the immediate aftermath of the closure of News international’s News of the World. The NoW was [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated newspapers, coalition government, daily mirror, Ed Miliband, Gordon Brown, labour government, Labour Party, News International, news of the world, people, Petronella Wyatt, readers, richard desmond, star on sunday, Sun, sunday espress, sunday mirror, Willian Rees-Mogg
By Stephen Foster on August 12, 2011
Rupert Murdoch isn’t a very happy bunny at the moment although he can console himself with the thought that things could be much worse (they still might be). But what the News Corporation boss probably hates the most is that his decision to close the News of the World in the wake of the phone [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, ipc, mail on sunday, news corporation, news of the world, people, phone hacking scandal, profits, richard desmond, Robert Maxwell, Rupert Murdoch, sales, Sly Bailey, star on sunday, Sun, sunday express, sunday mirror, Sunday Times, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on August 11, 2011
The true cost is the 50 per cent uplift a successful deal to buy all of British pay-TV BSkyB would have contributed to News Corporation’s just-announced annual profits of $2.89bn. BSkyB made £1bn or $1.6bn profit in its last financial year, making the $12bn or so News Corp was prepared to pay for the 61 [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged 20th century fox, avatar, bskyb, Chase Carey, David Cameron, James Murdoch, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, profits, Rupert Murdoch, Sun, the sunday times, the times
By Stephen Foster on July 11, 2011
Amid all the Murdoch stuff in the UK newspapers at the weekend was a fascinating piece in the Mail on Sunday claiming that current News International boss Rebekah Brooks used to run fictional press releases from her PR buddies as front page stories in the Sun and the News of the World. The article, written [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Charlie Brooks, David Cameron, elizabeth murdoch, fake pr stories, freud communications, Jeremy Clarkson, mail on sunday, Matthew Freud, news of the world, news of the world insider, oxfordshire, Paul Dacre, phone hacking scandal, prca, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Sun
By Stephen Foster on June 24, 2011
We all know that UK newspapers are taking a beating from online in the battle for advertising despite all the money they have spent boosting their own digital products. But the stark truth is laid bare in the following article by the Financial Times’ chief media correspondent Ben Fenton, who’s been doing his homework with [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Alexander Lebedev, associated newspapers, Ben Fenton, daily mail, Daily Telegraph, Douglas McCabe, enders analysis, financial times, guardian, london evening standard, metro, online revenues, paywalls, sliding circulations, Sun, Times, tv advertising, uk newspapers
By James Charlton on June 2, 2011
David Bernstein is no stranger to controversy. He was non-executive chairman of French Connection during its “f.c.u.k” ad campaign in 1997, created by the mercurial Trevor Beattie at TBWA and banned from time to time by the Advertising Standards Authority. It was ultimately successful for the clothing label. Bernstein has also a held a number [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged argentina, british press, corruption, David Bernstein, Dennis Skinner, falkland islands, fifa, football association, Helen Mirren, Julio Grondona, manchester city, Sepp Blatter, Sun, Telegraph, The Queen
By Stephen Foster on April 4, 2011
When Richard Desmond bought Express Newspapers a decade or so ago he caused outrage in Fleet Street with his rough ways. These supposedly included meeting delegates from the Telegraph with a goose-stepping routine and his butler interrupting meetings to bring him a banana on a silver platter. But Dessie looks like he’s going to have [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged arsenal, channel 5, daily express, daily mail, Jonathan Rothermere, news of the world, northern & shell, ok!, richard desmond, Rupert Murdoch, Sun, sunday exporpess
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