By Staff on June 6, 2013
Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks (left) is finally to have her day in court, over two years after proceedings began against her on various counts including phone hacking, conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office (paying policemen for information) and perverting the course of justice (disposing of evidence). Husband Charlie, a ‘racing figure’ [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged News International, not guilty plea, Paul Flattey, phone hacking trial, Rebekah Brooks, the sun
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 3, 2013
Who would have thought it – an ad from Grey, for the Sun, featuring a cutesy six-year-old child (none of which have featured strongly on yours truly’s Like button in recent years). Not quite fair, WPP’s Grey (in New York as well as London) has morphed into the most unlikely of creative hot shops recently [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Andy McLeod, big smile giveaway, grey london, rattling stick, the sun, tv campaign, WPP
By Stuart Smith on August 24, 2012
It’s time to embark upon a subject of the gravest national importance: the question of who should be allowed to see images of Prince Harry cavorting in a Las Vegas hotel room without any clothes on. Many may find these images both aesthetically distasteful and irrelevant to their otherwise busy lives. But, on occasions like [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Elisabeth Murdoch, mactaggart lecture, press complaints commission, Prince Harry, St James Palace, the sun
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 May 2, 2012
Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly from their point of view, legislators on either side of the Atlantic and, possibly, Australia [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fit person, fox, James Murdoch, leveson inquiry, news corporation, news of the world, ofcom, one-eyed monster, over-mighty legislators, parliamentary committee, phone hacking, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, Sky Italia, star tv, the sun, the times
By Angie Dean on April 5, 2012
News International has made its choice from the WPP agencies involved in the closed pitch for its business and the winners are: Grey, M/SIX (formerly CHI Media), Ogilvy One (direct) and Ogilvy Change (‘behavioural science’ apparently). WPP losers are creative agency CHI, which handled The Times, and media agency Mindshare which had The Times and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged CHI, grey, Katie Vanneck-Smith, m/six, mindshare, news international ad account, news of the world, ogilvy change, ogilvy one, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rory Sutherland, Rupert Murdoch, sun on sunday, team news, the sun
By Staff on March 7, 2012
Forget Max Clifford, The Outside Organisation’s Alan Edwards is the doyen of the populist PR world. Edwards began his career in the music business (like Clifford), acting for the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and David Bowie before broadening Outside’s reach to celebrities like Naomi Campbell (he acted for her in the ‘Blood Diamonds’ affair) [...]
Posted in Media, News, PR | Tagged alan Edwards, David Bowie, Katie Price, Max Clifford, Naomi Campbell, Neil Wallis, news agenda, News International, news of the world, outside organisation, phone hacking, PR, pr doyen, richard desmond, Sir Paul McCartney, sony music, the sun
By Stuart Smith on March 6, 2012
The time has come to fess up to my role in Horsegate. I have ridden a horse since 2010, and more than several times too. It would be a surprise if I hadn’t, you see, because I own one. Well, two …er, three now I come to think of it, but that was an accident [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, Charlie Brooks, David Cameron, fox hunting, George Osborne, medusa, parliament, phone hacking, police horse, raisa, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Stuart Smith, the sun
By Stephen Foster on February 28, 2012
At some point in 2006 Sun editor CEO Rebekah Brooks (pictured) met a senior Scotland Yard officer who told her that the Metropolitan Police suspected that there were 100 or more cases of phone hacking at News International but that they were going to confine their investigation to News of the World royal correspondent Clive [...]
Posted in Finance, Media | Tagged bribes, charlotte church, cover-up, culture of illegality, deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, leveson inquiry, News International, news of the world, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, scotland yard, sunday edition, the sun
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