Mirror closes in on Desmond’s Express titles

September 8, 2017 Comments Off on Mirror closes in on Desmond’s Express titles

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 ...

Now a gaggle of Mirror editors are arrested in Met Police phone hacking probe

March 14, 2013 Comments Off on Now a gaggle of Mirror editors are arrested in Met Police phone hacking probe

Whatever took them so long? Plod has finally pounced on four miscreant Mirror Group journalists in a dawn raid conducted by the Weeting (phone hacking) team. And what a haul it has proved to be. The four include the first ...

Angry celebs take aim at Piers Morgan and the Daily Mirror with phone hacking allegations

October 23, 2012 Comments Off on Angry celebs take aim at Piers Morgan and the Daily Mirror with phone hacking allegations

Who’d be a high profile tabloid journalist these days or even a tabloid paper owner? Scores of former News International staff have been charged with a range of offencess including phone hacking and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice ...

HMV’s Simon Fox takes on mission very difficult indeed at Trinity Mirror

August 31, 2012 Comments Off on HMV’s Simon Fox takes on mission very difficult indeed at Trinity Mirror

He likes a challenge does Simon Fox. The outgoing CEO of stricken high street music seller HMV is to take over from Sly Bailey as CEO of Trinity Mirror, the rapidly-disappearing national newspaper group. Fox (left), who famously turned down ...

Were sacked Mirror editors plotting a takeover?

June 1, 2012 Comments Off on Were sacked Mirror editors plotting a takeover?

Sacked Mirror editors Richard Wallace (Daily) and Tina Weaver (Sunday) were plotting a buyout of their employer Trinity Mirror’s national titles before they were unceremoniously given the boot on Wednesday, according to the Telegraph’s media editor Katherine Rushton. It’s not ...

The real victim of the carnage at the Mirror newspapers is the brand

May 31, 2012 Comments Off on The real victim of the carnage at the Mirror newspapers is the brand

The Rabelaisian guffawing in The Mirror’s newsroom when Trinity Mirror’s chief executive announced her unlamented departure is now reduced to a sullen whisper. Who will be next, the hacks timorously wonder as they survey the seismic damage caused by this ...

Morning of the long knives at the Mirror as new boss Grigson dumps editors Wallace and Weaver

May 30, 2012 Comments Off on Morning of the long knives at the Mirror as new boss Grigson dumps editors Wallace and Weaver

A month ago we asked if anyone still needed Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror, the (Sunday) People and a gaggle of regional titles. This was in the wake of Sly Bailey’s removal as CEO when shareholders ...

As boss Sly Bailey quits in pay row – does anyone still need Trinity Mirror?

May 4, 2012 Comments Off on As boss Sly Bailey quits in pay row – does anyone still need Trinity Mirror?

Sly Bailey, Sylvia as was, has quit her job as CEO of Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People plus a collection of local papers in an argument with shareholders over her £1.7m pay package. Bailey, ...

Piers Morgan plays a straight bat at Leveson phone-hacking inquiry – but could someone have a disabling googly up their sleeve?

December 20, 2011 Comments Off on Piers Morgan plays a straight bat at Leveson phone-hacking inquiry – but could someone have a disabling googly up their sleeve?

Usually voluble and gossipy former tabloid editor (and cricket fan) Piers Morgan was patting back questions from the Leveson inquiry into UK media ethics with the straightest of straight bats today. No I didn’t know about phone hacking (he clearly ...