Media

Being a newspaper magnate is never a quiet life as Alexander Lebedev, owner of the Independent and the Evening Standard, knows only too well from his ownership of liberal Moscow title Novaya Gazeta. Four journalists on the paper have been ...

And indeed its Interpublic media buying sibling Universal McCann as Microsoft spends a whopper $500m on the global launch of Kinect, a hands-free controller for the XBox 360. As ever with Microsoft these days someone got there first with the ...

In the spirit of scholarly inquiry we’ve been looking into this ‘bunga bunga’ business (the post-prandial entertainment of choice at Italian PM and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi’s parties) and it seems the phrase can also refer to an African erotic ...

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 ...

Italian prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi (73) is in yet more trouble, this time over a sex game called bunga bunga which was apparently taught to him by the lively president Gaddafi of Libya. 17-year old Moroccan belly ...

Cheryl Cole is a singer who became famous with Girls Aloud (then in her maiden guise as Cheryl Tweedy), became a solo artist, a judge on the X-Factor and who married England footballer Ashley Cole (they’ve just divorced). And she ...

Richard Desmond has only been in charge of Five (or Channel 5 as it’s likely to become once again) for a month or so but he’s already picked two fights, with UK industry marketing body Thinkbox and Elizabeth Murdoch’s production ...

Publicis Groupe is having a torrid time in China just now with the switch of the estimated $1bn L’Oreal media business from Optimedia to WPP’s Mindshare coming hard on the heels of the suspension of two leading executives at its ...

MDC Partners, the company that owns Crispin Porter + Bogusky, should have seen it coming when it appointed top creative Alex Bogusky as its ‘chief insurgent officer.’ This spectacularly daft title, in a business that prides itself on creating such, ...