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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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