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Restaurant critic, film director and occasional adman Michael Winner dies at 77

Restaurant critic, film director and occasional adman Michael Winner dies at 77

By Staff on January 21, 2013

Michael Winner, who was a much better restaurant critic than he was a film director, has died aged 77. Winner, who made a fortune from his Death Wish movies starring Charles Bronson, wrote the ‘Winner’s Dinners’ column in the Sunday Times News Review for years. Mostly this was about restaurants and holidays but he also [...]

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Rupert Murdoch wants to merge The Times and the Sunday Times - but the indie directors won't let him

Rupert Murdoch wants to merge The Times and the Sunday Times – but the indie directors won’t let him

By Stephen Foster on January 21, 2013

Blimey, ‘independent directors’ standing up to Rupert Murdoch. These bods (not the same ones presumably) were first appointed in 1981 when Margaret Thatcher allowed owner of the Sun Rupert Murdoch to buy The Times and the Sunday Times. When, shortly afterwards, he moved distinguished Sunday Times editor Harold Evans to The Times and then fired [...]

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Murdoch's newspaper cultural revolution speeds up - now Times editor Harding is chucked overboard

Murdoch’s newspaper cultural revolution speeds up – now Times editor Harding is chucked overboard

By Stephen Foster on December 13, 2012

81-year old Rupert Murdoch is ringing the changes in his newspaper empire as he prepares to spin it off as a separate company next spring. News International boss in the UK Tom Mockridge has already gone after losing out to Wall Street Journal boss Robert Thomson to be head of the new entity and now [...]

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How can you create ads as good as John Webster's? Think of them as virals..

How can you create ads as good as John Webster’s? Think of them as virals..

By Giles Keeble on October 24, 2012

At BMP’s party to celebrate the work of John Webster (left) I noticed something he had once written, the gist of which was that in Rembrandt’s time very few people saw his work, whereas millions will see your ad, so “let’s make it good.” If you – as a client or an agency – don’t [...]

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Rupert Murdoch plays an Aussie straight bat in feeble Leveson inquisition

Rupert Murdoch plays an Aussie straight bat in feeble Leveson inquisition

By Stephen Foster on April 25, 2012

I suppose when you’re 81 you can do weary in an extended grilling about your company, your ethics and, most of all, yourself and Rupert Murdoch did just that today, masterfully, when he testified before the UK’s Leveson Inquiry into media ethics. For some reason counsel to the inquiry Robert Jay spent the morning session [...]

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D-Day for Murdoch as he tells Sun journalists we're not going to close the paper

D-Day for Murdoch as he tells Sun journalists we’re not going to close the paper

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 [...]

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News International reviews £28m ad account - does this mean a Sun on Sunday is finally on the way?

News International reviews £28m ad account – does this mean a Sun on Sunday is finally on the way?

By Stephen Foster on January 26, 2012

It’s pretty hard to think of any UK company that’s been as deep in the mire as News International, the News Corporation-owned company that published the recently-extinguished phone-hacking News of the World. But News is reviewing its £28m account according to Campaign, suggesting that the ever-combative company has decided that sitting in the corner and [...]

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Tuesday September 29, 2009 at the Labour Party conference - was this the day the wheels came off the News Corporation chariot?

Tuesday September 29, 2009 at the Labour Party conference – was this the day the wheels came off the News Corporation chariot?

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 [...]

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Murdochs face growing shareholder revolt at News Corp - does anyone want to buy the newspapers?

Murdochs face growing shareholder revolt at News Corp – does anyone want to buy the newspapers?

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 [...]

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Will the News of the World save Mirror publisher?

Will the News of the World save Mirror publisher?

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 [...]

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