Tag Archives: Matthew Freud

That’s what we all want to find out from the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics tomorrow (Friday) when former News of the World and Sun editor, and latterly CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper operation News International, Rebekah Brooks takes ...

Met Police assistant commissioner John Yates, the senior policeman who investigated the News of the World phone hacking scandal and declared the matter closed despite being supposedly the cleverest person at Scotland Yard, has followed his boss Sir Paul Stephenson ...

You don’t get to be Rupert Murdoch by rolling over before a bunch of UK MPs who have (belatedly it must be said) decided that it’s time to cut you and your media empire down to size. Well actually on ...

Amid all the Murdoch stuff in the UK newspapers at the weekend was a fascinating piece in the Mail on Sunday claiming that current News International boss Rebekah Brooks used to run fictional press releases from her PR buddies as ...

Interpublic-owned Weber Shandwick, which claims to be the world’s biggest PR company, is entering the content game in London with the creation of what amounts to a 12-strong in-house creative department. The company, led by chairman Lord Chadlington (Peter Gummer ...

More than a few eyebrows were raised when Publicis Groupe forked out $100m for a 49 per cent stake in Brazil’s Talent agency last year (Talent employs about 230 people meaning they were worth nearly $1m each) but the French ...

Well that’s the obvious question isn’t it? Matthew Freud has just forked out about £40m to buy back Publicis Groupe’s 50.1 per cent stake in his UK PR firm Freud Communications (the second time he’s extricated himself from a marcoms ...

Well it’s an interesting one isn’t it? James Murdoch, currently chairman and CEO of News Corporation in Asia and Europe, is going off to New York to be deputy COO of the whole shebang and boss of international (including Asia ...

Giant US electrical retailer Best Buy’s foray into the UK has not been an unalloyed success with the company cutting back its planned store expansion to concentrate on online sales. The UK launch is a joint venture with Carphone Warehouse ...