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 ...
Read More »Noose tightens on James Murdoch and David Cameron as Yates of the Yard throws in the towel
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 ...
Read More »Crisis, what crisis? Murdoch is defiant as daughter Elizabeth and PR man husband Matthew Freud orchestrate fightback
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 ...
Read More »Did Rebekah Brooks’ PR chums invent fake front page stories for her newspapers?
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 ...
Read More »PR giant Weber Shandwick to challenge ad agencies with in-house creative department
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 ...
Read More »Publicis Groupe takes 60 per cent majority holding in Brazil’s Talent
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 ...
Read More »Matthew Freud seals £40m buy-back deal from Publicis – but what’s the restless PR maven going to do next?
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 ...
Read More »James Murdoch is off to New York – a promotion or is dad Rupert trying to get him out of the way?
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 ...
Read More »Blow for Freud Communications as Best Buy seeks PR repitch after just a year
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 ...
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