Tag Archives: New York Times

Should we be surprised that newspapers – in the case one of the world’s most famous the Washington Post – have become rich men’s trophy assets? The $250m sale by the Graham family of the venerable title to Amazon founder ...

The scene was Brighton, England and embattled UK prime minister Gordon Brown had just tried (and mostly failed) to rally his battered troops. Leading Labour politicos at the party conference were no doubt looking forward to a few sustaining snifters ...

Time was when there was a middle market in UK newspapers, the Daily Mail and Daily Express fighting over the millions of aspiring middle class readers who wouldn’t be seen dead buying the Sun or the Mirror, and didn’t have ...

The Daily Telegraph group made £58.9m profit in 2010, 11 per cent up on 2009, nearly 50 per cent if you strip out one-off sales in 2009 of £13m. The surprisingly buoyant figure seems to testify more to cost-cutting than ...

They seem to be a lively lot, past and present, at the agencies now owned by Toronto outfit MDC. A short time ago we had fabled creative director Alex Bogusky (the self-styled ‘creative insurgent’) leaving the business to go and ...

Or so the BBC (and the Financial Times and New York Times) seem to think. Top investment bank Goldman Sachs (the global economy’s version of Paddy Power) has stuck a load of its own money into Facebook stock (or options) ...

Andy Coulson, the UK coalition government’s official spin doctor in number 10 Downing Street, resigned as editor of The News of the World in 2007 when his royal correspondent Clive Goodman was convicted of illegal phone tapping. At the time ...

‘The Old Gray Lady’ as the New York Times is known in the US is flagging a bit, burdened by huge debts as the advertising tide has gone out and, its critics would say, hamstrung by too many hacks who ...