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By Stephen Foster on October 12, 2012
You have to feel for new BBC director-general George Entwistle – no, not that way – who has walked into the biggest minefield the corporation has faced since Andrew Gilligan’s carelessly-worded (but true) allegation about Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell’s conning of the nation about the need to invade Iraq. Which resulted in the departure [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Andrew Gilligan, BBC, Chris Patten, George Entwistle, Greg Dyke, Iraq, Jimmy Savile, Tony Blair
By Staff on September 3, 2012
One WPP investment that looks to be paying off is Peter Mandelson’s Global Counsel LLP, a limited partnership that aims to help companies expand in new markets. WPP took a minority stake in the business formed by the former business secretary in the Labour government in 2010. The first accounts to surface for Global Counsel [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged global counsel llp, Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair, WPP
By Staff on July 24, 2012
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head… Well, Rebekah Brooks’ and Andy Coulson’s heads at any rate. Along with those of 6 other hacks from The News of the World (ob. 2011) and The Sun. It’s career death for them, whatever the outcome of a trial. And, frankly, things look pretty grim for [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Prudence MacLeod, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, The Daily Express, the mirror, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on June 17, 2012
The UK’s Leveson Inquiry into media ethics, set up by PM David Cameron to take the heat off politicians for their cosy relationships with law-breaking newspaper groups, has well and truly backfired. For Cameron and co obviously, because their cringe-making relationships with the media have been under the spotlight. But for his Lordship too, as [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Charlie Brooks, David Cameron, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt, leveson inquiry, media ethics, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on May 29, 2012
The Leveson Inquiry entertainment goes on, with Tony Blair appearing earlier this week and being engagingly Tony-ish (the bastard), education secretary Michael Gove (a former employee of Rupert Murdoch as a journalist at the The Times) annoying his lordship with his view that a free press means that you have to accept the rough with [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged BBC, bbc producer, bskyb, Craig Oliver, David Cameron, George Osborne, Jeremy Hunt, Jeremy Paxman, John Humphrys, leveson inquiry, Michael Gove, news corporation, Nick Robinson, Norman Smith, Robert Jay QC, Rod Liddle, the times, today programme, Tony Blair, tory pr man
By Stephen Foster on May 23, 2012
Well he sort of is, former Downing Street comms chief Alastair Campbell (pictured) is going to work as a consultant for one of his former underlings, Portland PR boss Tim Allan who sold a majority stake to Omnicom in April. For once Campbell’s career timing doesn’t look too good. He says he’s been thinking about [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alastair Campbell, comme chief.strategic brain, downing street, hype, omnicom, portland pr, Tim Allan, Tony Blair
By Staff on April 12, 2012
Downing Street must be paved with gold – or so it must seem to Tim Allen (pictured), boss of London PR firm Portland, who has just sold a majority stake in his company to Omnicom. The deal values Portland at up to £20m. Allen is a former PR adviser to Tony Blair in Number 10 [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged 10 downing street, Alastair Campbell, bskyb, google, omnicom, politics, PR, Rachel Whetstone, Steve Hilton, Tesco, the red brick road, Tim Allan, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on March 24, 2012
It’s not often that you get WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell and Havas CEO David Jones together but the BBC’s Evan Davis managed to do so last week, along with one-time City of London ‘superwoman’ Nicola Horlick, now investing in films through her new firm Rockpool Investments. Davis’s ‘The Bottom Line’ business programme, produced with the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bbc radio, crowd-sourcing company, david jones, Evan Davis, havas, open university, rockpool investments, Sir Martin Sorrell, stress, the bottom line, Tony Blair, underlings, WPP
By Stephen Foster on March 19, 2012
Mark Thompson (pictured) has been director-general of the BBC since 2004 when he came back to the corporation from a short stint at Channel 4 as the Beeb reeled from the enforced departure of Greg Dyke. Dyke, a former boss of London Weekend Television, has been forced out after the BBC governors, in effect the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Andrew Gilligan, BBC, bbc1, Caroline Thompson, Channel 4, director-general, dodgy dossier, Dr David Kelly, George Entwistle, Greg Dyke, Helen Boaden, iraq war, Jonathan Ross, Mark Thompson, media city, Peter Fincham, Robert Peston, Russell Brand, sachsgate, salford, sexed up, Tony Blair
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