Trinity Mirror CEO Simon Fox is a brave man. Now he’s on the brink of buying Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell publishing empire, publisher of the Express newspapers and OK! magazine, for a top price of £135m. Desmond bought the ...
Read More »What’s next for Richard Desmond as long-time sidekick Stan Myerson calls it a day?
I see that Stan Myerson, Richard Desmond’s number two and “brother-in-arms” is retiring. The British newspaper industry had never seen anything quite like Desmond and Myerson (below, centre, with BT’s Gavin Patterson and Ian Livingston) when they descended on the ...
Read More »Swashbuckling publisher Jocelyn Stevens dies
Sir Jocelyn Stevens, who died on Sunday aged 82, could have been a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel. He was the nephew of Sir Edward Hulton who owned the famous British magazine Picture Post in the 1930s, which no ...
Read More »GroupM airtime row with Channel 4 shines a light on media agency deals
The ongoing Channel 4/GroupM stand-off is rather worrying for advertisers for number of reasons. Campaign reports that GroupM’s refusal to accept a renewal of the same terms it was offered in its last two year deal -hardly an unreasonable offer ...
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