PR

Well it’s no doubt worth lots of money to someone or other (the media broker presumably) but card giant Visa must have a few worries about its decision to team with News International for exclusive plugging rights for its sponsorship ...

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is under fire from all directions. At the last count these included: phone hacking at the News of the World, seeking to suborn plurality in the British ...

Executives at UK pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB, about to announce yet more stellar sales and profit figures, must be so wishing they could do away with Rupert Murdoch, 39 per cent owner News Corporation, The News of the World, Andy Coulson ...

The day after new CNN interview host Piers Morgan reduced Oprah Winfrey to tears (guests on Piers’ programmes take crying lessons in advance and carry a peeled onion just in case) he came up against the anything but lachrymose shock ...

So he’s not really occupying the chair, just perching on the edge. But life can be like that at WPP and the rapidity of Weber Shandwick COO Ken Luce’s switch to WPP PR firm Hill & Knowlton suggests that the ...

Simon Greenberg, who has just been appointed head of corporate affairs at News International, is used to stiff challenges. From 2004 to 2009 he was comms head at Chelsea Football Club, battling a sceptical and sometimes defiantly hostile bunch of ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell isn’t one to fall asleep over the holiday period and, hard on the heels of ditching Doug Checkeris as US CEO of Mediacom after losing the GSK account to PHD, Paul Taaffe, global CEO of ...

Advertising Association boss Tim Lefroy probably has high hopes of his new PR campaign, called Advertising Matters, and the PR agency Fishburn Hedges that’s been appointed to handle it. But we seem to have been here before. From time to ...

Timing is (also) all in the wacky world of corporate communications (see Morrisons story) and BG’s head of government affairs Peter Henshaw may demonstrate just that as he moves into the BP communications hot seat formerly occupied by unfortunate former ...