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By Stephen Foster on January 23, 2013
Rupert Howell (left), a founder of the HHCL agency, boss of McCann in London and former client sales supremo at ITV, is set to be the CEO of the People tabloid newspaper if Journalist Sue Douglas’s consortium succeeds in raising the £10m required to buy it from Trinity Mirror. Howell has been winding down his [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged buyout deal, hhcl, itv, mccann, Rupert Howell, sue Douglas, the news of the world, the people, the sun, trinity mirror
By Paul Simons on July 27, 2012
When I saw the news Tesco had appointed Wieden & Kennedy to handle their £110m ad account my first reaction was ‘interesting and surprising decision’. The smart money would have been on Tesco hiring one of the big players and not an agency renowned for its outstanding creative output – Honda, Nike, etc. The reason [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media | Tagged absolut, Asda, BT, cadbury, citibank, fallon, gorilla ad, honda, Land Rover, news corp, nike, Playstation, RBS, simons palmer, Sony, tag, Tesco, the news of the world, the sun, wieden & kennedy, Zone
By Stephen Foster on February 22, 2012
Well there’s a line and a half for you but this is the one Rupert Murdoch and News International hope will persuade about two and a half million people to buy the Sun – not ‘The Sun on Sunday’ it would appear – on Sunday. That’s the number of readers supposedly up for grabs as [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged arrests, Dominic Mohan, groupm, launch, mec, mediacom, mindshare, News International, phone hacking scandal, press spending, Roy Keane, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, the news of the world, the sun, the sun on sunday
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 [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andrew Neil, daily express, John Major, Kelvin MacKenzie, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, richard desmond, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the news of the world, the star, the sun, the times
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 25, 2011
Part of the Murdochs’ ‘defence’ to the UK Parliament’s culture, media and sport committee last week in the midst of the phone hacking scandal was that they were too busy to spend much time on a business – News International newspapers – that only produced one per cent of News Corporation’s vast profits. This, of [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged associated newspapers, bskyb, daily mail, fox, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, mail on sunday, News International, parliamentary committee, Paul Dacre, phone hacking, political influence, royal family, Rupert Murdoch, sky, the guardian, the news of the world, the sun, the sunday times, the times, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on June 16, 2011
Well sort of, apparently Rebekah Brooks (Rebekah Wade as she then was) had her phone hacked by News of the World private investigator Glenn Mulcaire when she was editor of the Sunday paper’s daily stablemate the Sun. Or so the police think anyway. Which makes you think and what it makes you think particularly is [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Clive Goodman, Glenn Mulcaire, News International, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rebekah Wade, the news of the world, the sun
By Stephen Foster on March 2, 2011
Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen is like one of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns.’ You know he’s going to do something absolutely crazy but you never know quite what. Currently Charlie is waging war on CBS and Warner Brothers which produces the top-rating programme as he demands, in his more lucid moments, an [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged CBS, Charlie Sheen, fox news, Rupert Murdoch, the news of the world, the sun, two and a half men, warner brothers
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