By Stephen Foster on October 17, 2012
Guardian Press blogger Roy Greenslade, a former editor of the Daily Mirror and now, I believe, professor of journalism at the City University in London, takes issue with our story that the powers that be at Guardian News & Media and the Scott Trust are seriously considering ditching the print edition of the Guardian and [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged fleet street, guardian news & media, Katherine Rushton, Roy Greenslade, scott trust, Telegraph, the guardian, website
By Stephen Foster on June 1, 2012
Sacked Mirror editors Richard Wallace (Daily) and Tina Weaver (Sunday) were plotting a buyout of their employer Trinity Mirror’s national titles before they were unceremoniously given the boot on Wednesday, according to the Telegraph’s media editor Katherine Rushton. It’s not clear from Rushton’s story, which was rubbished this morning by former Mirror editor Roy Greenslade [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged daily mirror, David Grigson, Katherine Rushton, Richard Wallace, Sly Bailey, sunday mirror, takeover, Telegraph, Tina Weaver, trinity mirror
By Stephen Foster on May 4, 2012
Sly Bailey, Sylvia as was, has quit her job as CEO of Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People plus a collection of local papers in an argument with shareholders over her £1.7m pay package. Bailey, a former IPC Magazines boss before she took over at the Mirror in 2003, faced [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated, cost-cutting, daily mail, daily mirror, digital onslaught, ipc magazines, local papers, news corporation, News International, people, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Bailey, Sun, sunday mirror, Telegraph, trinity mirror
By Stuart Smith on October 29, 2011
An open letter to Everything Everywhere CEO Olaf Swantee (pictured): ‘Dear Mr Swantee How do these female Telegraph journalists do it? Trap you into saying things you didn’t really mean to say, that is? Not many months ago, coalition government business secretary Vince Cable was silly enough to tell two such hackettes that Mr Murdoch’s [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged bskyb, deutsche telekom, everything everywhere, france telecom, Katherine Rushton, Olaf Swantee, orange, Rupert Murdoch, Stuart Smith, t-mobile, Telegraph, Tom Alexander, Vince Cable
By Stephen Foster on October 5, 2011
What a shame Bacardi-Martini didn’t bring back this William Lawson’s ad from 2000 for this year’s Rugby World Cup. Confronting those haka-mad Kiwis with some vintage Braveheart would have been just the ticket. Even better if Scotland had qualified for a quarter final against New Zealand (as they should have). Apropos website howlers (see Mail [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged 40, braveheart, england debut, haka, kiwis, lions, new zealand, Paul Ackford, rugby world cup, rugby world cup final 1991, sunday telegraph, Telegraph, william lawson's ad 2000
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 David O'Reilly on February 22, 2011
Is the tide turning for the concept of news website paywalls, as the Guardian reports today that the Telegraph group is planning to introduce charging for some digital content in the autumn? This news coincides with encouraging signs for News International, with its Times and News of the World paywall sites both recording double-digit growth [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged financial times, guardian, Independent, Mail, news corporation, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, Telegraph, Times
By Stephen Foster on January 5, 2011
An anti-tax dodger group called 38 Degrees has raised enough money from somewhere to run a UK national newspaper campaign accusing coalition government chancellor George Osborne, who’s supposed to be cracking down on tax-dodging companies, of being one himself. It says he benefited from £1.6m inheritance tax savings himself by using offshore trusts. Osborne’s family [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged 38 degrees, chancellor, George Osborne, guardian, Independent, Mail, metrio, osborne & little, tax dodging, Telegraph
By David O'Reilly on July 13, 2010
Encouraging news today for Rupert Murdoch’s paywall experiment, in of all papers, the Guardian, which of course is firmly on the side of free news sites. Apparently Mediapart, the subscriber-based, web-only news site which broke the Butlergate scandal in France, has grabbed another 5,000 subscribers since it broke the story in June, a rise of [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Bettencourt, google, guardian, L'Oreal, Rupert Murdoch, Sarkozy, Telegraph
By David O'Reilly on June 25, 2010
It’s approaching crunch time for News International and its brave, some would say foolhardy, attempt to get people to pay for viewing the Times and the Sunday Times online. According to Experian Hitwise, since the company introduced registration and separate sites for the two titles, their combined share of UK internet visits to news and [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged apple, guardian, Mail, Mirror, Rupert Murdoch, Telegraph
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