Independent owner Alexander Lebedev, currently completing a community service sentence in Russia for whacking someone on a chat show, is looking for a new investor in his Independent, Independent on Sunday and cut-price 20p i British newspapers according to a ...
Read More »Will the real Charles Saatchi please stand up?
Those of us who knew Charles Saatchi (or Charlie before he became important) in a previous life to a greater or lesser degree (lesser, in my case) must be completely mystified by the latest turn of events – Charlie on ...
Read More »John Malone’s Liberty lines up $20bn Virgin Media bid, Lebedevs expand in London with local TV
John Malone’s Liberty Global, a big US-based cable company, is planning a bid for the UK’s Virgin Media according to the Financial Times. Virgin Media, in which Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin holds just a three per cent stake (despite appearances ...
Read More »The strange case of WPP, GroupM, Channel 4 and the disappearing Evening Standard story
“Sir Martin Sorrell, boss of the world’s largest advertising group WPP, has been forced into a humiliating climbdown after failing to strongarm …” began a story in Friday’s London Evening Standard – and then, all of a sudden, it disappeared ...
Read More »Does the Guardian’s newspaper and digital strategy actually add up?
The Guardian has said it may be forced to make compulsory redundancies as its efforts to persuade journalists to leave voluntarily have failed. It was seeking up to 100 voluntary redundancies but only 30 or so people signed up. According ...
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