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An open letter to Everything Everywhere CEO Olaf Swantee (pictured): ‘Dear Mr Swantee How do these female Telegraph journalists do it? Trap you into saying things you didn’t really mean to say, that is? Not many months ago, coalition government ...

About 80 per cent of non-aligned or independent shareholders do anyway according to this analysis by the BBC’s Robert Peston of votes cast at last Friday’s AGM of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Nearly as many want elder brother Lachlan to ...

The scene was Brighton, England and embattled UK prime minister Gordon Brown had just tried (and mostly failed) to rally his battered troops. Leading Labour politicos at the party conference were no doubt looking forward to a few sustaining snifters ...

Accounts come and go of course but Virgin Media’s advertising at DDB London is worth a chunky £36m and it’s also the central plank in what now seems to be a leaky vessel, DDB’s role in masterminding all Virgin’s communications ...

Well according to the usually conservative Reuters they are. The report has been denied officially by News Corporation, but it could hardly do otherwise. But it finally seems to be dawning on News Corp managers (although this might not include ...

What you really don’t want in a long-running and damaging dispute is to fall out with various firms of lawyers you’ve hired but News Corporation seems in danger of doing so as two new law firms, Farrer & Co (the ...

Manchester United was a public company until it was bought by the hated (as far as the fans are concerned) Glazer family from Florida and now it looks as though it’s going to become one again (partly) as it prepares ...

The true cost is the 50 per cent uplift a successful deal to buy all of British pay-TV BSkyB would have contributed to News Corporation’s just-announced annual profits of $2.89bn. BSkyB made £1bn or $1.6bn profit in its last financial ...

Part of the Murdochs’ ‘defence’ to the UK Parliament’s culture, media and sport committee last week in the midst of the phone hacking scandal was that they were too busy to spend much time on a business – News International ...