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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 Stephen Foster on January 14, 2013
**Long-suffering music business HMV has finally toppled into administration as suppliers have refused more credit. It’s all about downloads of course, there aren’t enough old farts (like me) hunting around for CDs. The move follows hard on the heels of the Virgin music business in France going down the tubes (Sir Richard got out years [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Carolyn McCall, downloads, easyJet, hmv, margate, Rupert Howell, Simon Fox, sue Douglas, the ambrette, the people, vccp
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 Stephen Foster on February 27, 2012
Job done really as Rupert Murdoch’s hastily-launched seventh-day Sun sold out in many locations yesterday and pulled in an impressive list of advertisers, not all of the from WPP’s GroupM, his biggest ally in the business of re-establishing News Corp’s UK newspaper revenues and profits. And here’s the old boy himself (and Sun editor Dominic [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Andy Hayman, arrests, Conrad Black, daily star sunday, Daily Telegraph, Dominic Mohan, groupm, launch, leveson inquiry, metropolitan police, news corporation, Rupert Murdoch, sunday edition, sunday mirror, the people, the sun, the times
By Staff on June 11, 2011
It was only a matter of time of course, the Mirror (Daily Mirror as was) has long pursued the same rocky tabloid path as its much bigger rival the Sun and the Sun’s Sunday sibling the News of the World. Both the Sun and the News of the World are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged cnn, Jonathan Rees, News International, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Piers Morgan, southern investigations, sunday mirror, the mirror, the people, the sun, trinity mirror
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