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By Stephen Foster on December 26, 2012
At this time of year – in the UK at least – we hear a lot about the impending doom for a number of high street retailers (so far unspecified) who are struggling to pay their next quarterly rent bill even though their tills are stuffed with cash from Christmas and the sales. Therefore it’s [...]
Posted in Analysis, Finance, Media, News | Tagged news corporation, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, Simon Fox, the guardian, the times, trinity mirror, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on November 15, 2011
The Financial Times has had a good credit crunch war and seems to be in shape for the next one, as world economies stand on the edge of a cliff and decide not to take a sensible step backwards. This new ad from DDB London turns the Eurozone’s problems to the FT’s advantage (which must [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged boase massimi pollitt, ddb london, ducks in a row ad campaign, financial times, online, Rupert Murdoch, volkswagen, Wall Street Journal
By Angie Dean on August 15, 2011
Bloomberg and its magazine acquisition Business Week have produced their list of America’s most popular brands, based on commercial growth or a surge in popularity (or both) over the past year. • Actress: Sandra Bullock • Athlete (Female): Serena Williams • Athlete (Male): Peyton Manning (NFL quarterback) • Beverage (Beer): Bud Light • Beverage (Soda): [...]
Posted in Clients, News | Tagged bloomberg, bridgewater, business week, coca-cola, happening brands, nba, Peyton Manning, Sandra Bullock, Serena Williams, stouffers chicken parmesan, Tide, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on July 15, 2011
You don’t get to be Rupert Murdoch by rolling over before a bunch of UK MPs who have (belatedly it must be said) decided that it’s time to cut you and your media empire down to size. Well actually on this occasion Rupert Murdoch and his son James have; agreeing to appear before a Parliamentary [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged BP, congressman peter kind, edelman, elizabeth murdoch, fbi investigation, freud communications, harbottle & lewis, house homeland security committee, James Murdoch, law firm, long island, Matthew Freud, New York, parliamentary committee, phone hacking scandal, pr firms, Rebecca Brooks, Richard Edelman, Rupert Murdoch, shine, Tony Hayward, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on November 23, 2010
He may be the most unpopular media mogul since the term was invented but Rupert Murdoch’s drive for (even more) world domination continues with the $360m acquisition of Wireless Generation, a US education software provider. The move follows hard on the heels of Murdoch signing up former New York City education boss Joel Klein to [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Bill O'Reilly, financial times, fox news, Joel Klein, Pearson, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, wireless generation
By Stephen Foster on November 1, 2010
Michael Bloomberg’s eponymous terminals and information company has long been in a battle against Reuters (now the product of a 2007 merger between Reuters and Thomson Financial) in the financial markets desktop terminals business. Standalone information has been a second string but now Bloomberg, which recently bought Business Week from McGraw-Hill for a bargain basement [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bloomberg, business week, financial times, Michael Bloomberg, reuters, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on October 25, 2010
It’s not that long ago that City analysts, those highly-rewarded people famed for their foresight, were complaining about Pearson’s ownership of the Financial Times. What does a would-be education publishing giant need with an out-of-date old newspaper they asked. But according to a Pearson statement this morning the FT is leading a sales boom at [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged financial times, Lionel Barber, Pearson, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on October 22, 2010
British pay-TV broadcaster Sky, 39.1 per cent owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, almost doubled its profits in the third quarter of 2010 from £128m in 2009 to £228m. Stripping out exceptionals the numbers were £255m against £204m, still 25 per cent up. New subscribers rose 15 per cent to 96,000 in the quarter and [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, China, Margaret Thatcher, news corporation, Rupert Murdoch, sky, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on August 4, 2010
Rupert Murdoch today made a rousing defence of his decision to put the websites for The Times and the Sunday Times in London behind a pay wall. Progress so far, he said, was “strong.” But best industry estimates are that no more than 20,000 people have signed up for the £2 a week service and [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged James Harding, pay wall, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the times, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on May 28, 2010
There’s influence and influence and the Financial Times seems to have it in spades if the reaction to a story in last Wednesday’s pink ‘un is any guide. The FT wrote that China, the world’s biggest buyer of government bonds (it has buckets of surplus cash from its cheaply-priced exports) had decided to stop buying [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged China, european bonds, financial times, Wall Street Journal
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